Efforts at community development in the potters' village of Kumbharwada, India, in a setting of extreme poverty, are described. Included are successful education and community health programs, as well as unsuccessful attempts to establish a playground, a selling cooperative, and a newspaper. (MF)

The disastrous state of Ghanaian finances immediately before and after the coup against Nkrumah has had the effect of virtually eliminating community development and health services, particularly in non-urban areas of Ghana. It is hoped that new regional and district structure and improved staff morale can now bring about more effective programs.…

The Village Development Project, in operation in Nepal from 1952 until 1959, was less than successful in its total effect because of competition between U.S. and Indian foreign aid programs and the unfamiliarity of village development workers with rural life. (MF)

Fictitious case study describes personnel problems in an attempt to provide an elementary school in a Mexican-American town in Texas with a community agent responsible for designing parent participation programs. Absence of any training causes the agent's rapid resignation. (MF)