What is Community Resource?

A community resource is anything that can be used to improve the quality of community life. It can be

• Nature: such as ocean, lake, springs, bush, trees, public land, and forests. Any natural thing from where the community can get water, food, firewood and any other things essential for their lives
• Infrastructure: a road, borehole, electricity, antennas of mobile phones etc. This means anything that is established and provides services to the community
• Physical structure or place: a school, health facility, market, church, library, community centre etc.
• Community landmark or symbol: A public place that already belongs to the community e.g. A maneaba, parks, a wetland, or any other open space
• A business: that provides jobs and supports the local economy
• A person: e.g. a fisherman, a cobra cutter, a mechanic, a farmer, a carpenter, a business man, a preacher, a scholar, an artist, a social welfare officer. These are known as community owned resource persons. Anyone in the community can be a community owned resource because everyone in the community can do something.
• NOTE. Names of such individuals should be generated as a list annexed to the map.