ABSTRACT
The grassroots nuclear organizations were expected to engage in the proper maintenance of common physical amenities, health care, and environmental hygiene and other economic and social activities to improve the quality of community life. Health and health education programs would be greatly facilitated by the selection and training of a community health volunteer for a group of households not exceeding about fifty. Health education programs through interpersonnel communications, group talks, mass media, and institutions such as maternity homes and schools formed the main activities under this project component. The communities identified a number of economic activities that they could undertake: consumer activity, thrift and credit societies, a community development fund, and skill-training and income-generating projects. To evaluate the impact of the project and to draw useful lessens from its operation, field investigations were conducted in three sample slum communities. About half the Inhabitants of the city of Colombo in Sri Lanka live In slums and shanties.
