Part A (Q2): Define Community Work and discuss its objectives.

Community Work is a broad professional term encompassing interventions aimed at helping communities identify their needs, mobilize resources, and take collective action to improve their social and economic well-being. It assumes that communities have the inherent capacity to solve their own problems if properly facilitated.

Objectives of Community Work:

1. Capacity Building: Empowering individuals and local groups with the skills, knowledge, and confidence to lead community initiatives independently.
2. Resource Mobilization: Identifying and tapping into local indigenous resources (human, financial) and linking the community with external resources (government schemes, NGOs).
3. Advocacy and Policy Change: Amplifying the community's voice to lobby local authorities for better services (e.g., sanitation, schools) or to change unjust policies.
4. Social Harmony: Resolving conflicts and mediating disputes between different factions within the community to foster unity.