Community development is another important initiative. This enables us to bring people together, to help them identify the problems and needs which they share and to teach them how to respond to those problems. It also includes helping people to discover the resources that they already have and to promote knowledge, skills, and confidence so they can act together to strengthen their communities and the leadership within their communities. Through community development communities can become more responsible, organize and plan together, empower themselves, reduce poverty and suffering, create employment and economic opportunities, and achieve social, economic, cultural and environmental goals.