ABSTRACT
In Part II of this book, we explored a number of interventions designed to improve the physical and economic life of Thawra to make it a destination, a wonderful place to grow up in. To each of our catalyst interventions, we made space for the strategic objective of building and sustaining livelihoods of individual households and of the community at large. We were directed in our pursuits by current wisdom, to tackle poverty. That is: in order to reduce poverty, one needs to reduce vulnerability in all its manifestations, as we have elaborated in Chapter 3. Reducing or removing vulnerability, in turn, demands building the resilience of community, to the shocks and stresses of daily life, the capacity to safeguard and sustain livelihoods, ‘the ability to cope, adapt and improve well-being…’ 1
