The Most Crucial Element in Development - Training

Abstract

Agricultural Missions, a unit of the Division of Overseas Ministries of the National Council of Churches, considers training one of its most important concerns in its efforts toward development of disadvantaged peoples around the world. Besides sponsoring three training sessions in the United States for furloughed missionaries and nationals from the developing countries, the organization helps conduct training laboratories and sponsors other training experiences in Asia, Africa and Latin America.

The training of youth in the rural areas of Africa, to enable them to help lead their own communities toward a more productive way of life, is here described in excerpts from YOUTH AND DEVELOPMENT IN AFRICA, a Report of the Commonwealth Africa Regional Youth Seminar, Nairobi, November 1969.