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Community Development Worker
Works with local communities to improve living conditions, services, and opportunities.
Did you know?
Muhammad Yunus and his Grameen Bank shared the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize for microcredit, tiny loans that help poor people start small businesses.
How subjects help
- Sociology: Run meetings where neighbours decide together what their area needs most.
- Economics: Help set up local markets or small businesses that create jobs nearby.
- Communication: Bring councils, charities and residents together to plan a new project.
- Geography: Map where parks, clinics and bus stops are missing in a neighbourhood.
A famous name
Muhammad Yunus: Founded Grameen Bank to lend small sums to poor villagers, winning the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize.
Try it yourself: Map the helpers near you
- Draw a simple map of your neighbourhood from memory.
- Mark every place that helps people: a clinic, library, park, food bank, bus stop, place of worship.
- Ask a family member what they would add, and who in your area might find it hard to get help.
- What is missing? Write one idea that would help.
Social workers and community planners start by finding what a community already has and who is being left out.
Also try: Practise listening the SHUSH way.
Known for it in
Bangladesh, India, Kenya, UK, USA