Organizing comprehensive community care

In Madras (Kerala, India) community care is devolved to "street cells", made up of people in a neighbourhood without consideration of their status or wealth. Local street cells may be responsible for collection and disposal of garbage and kitchen wastes, supply of clean water, decision on building standards for the area, and collecting the taxes. The cells are combined into Area Councils, Area Councils into Divisions, Divisions into Ranges and the Ranges into a Corporation. Each level in the pyramid has full and autonomous control of expenditure of part of the taxes, and the beneficiaries determine their own priorities. This form of civic participation down to the street level keeps everyone involved in civic affairs and everyone concerned with the welfare of their neighbourhood. By putting care and concern for the community above self-interest and by trusting the people to make their own decisions, Kerala boasts health and well-being standards equal to the best of the developed countries, with per capita incomes in the order of only US$200 per year.

1. Revitalizing community structures
2. Providing comprehensive care structures
3. Providing community care
4. Localizing
5. Increasing health knowledge
6. Improving health care
7. Ensuring a healthy environment
8. Creating community
9. Coordinating activities

1. Strengthening social care at the neighbourhood level
2. Providing community services
3. Promoting local environmental care programmes
4. Organizing community task forces
5. Organizing community space
6. Managing community health
7. Integrating neighbourhood care services
8. Instigating community resources management
9. Initiating common baby care
10. Improving community care for transient urban populations
11. Humanizing community care structures
12. Holding corporate community workdays
13. Forming neighbourhood care groups
14. Extending local preschool care
15. Establishing ongoing community maintenance
16. Establishing community care network
17. Educating local care force
18. Creating global-local consensual care
19. Creating corporate care events
20. Coordinating use of community property
21. Clarifying common care areas

1. Opening community service opportunities
2. Maintaining stable community order
3. Demonstrating local care
4. Cultivating home gardens
5. Building practical skills development
6. Beautifying neighbourhood living environment

1. Structuring effective neighbourhood action
2. Promoting community self-determination
3. Planning community programmes
4. Motivating community involvement
5. Intensifying community consensus
6. Instituting community consensus meetings
7. Holding community meetings

1. Providing inadequate community care for transient urban populations

1. Abstaining from structures for community care

1. Providing maintenance

1. Fragmented social care at the neighbourhood level
2. Fragmented planning of community life