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Community Development for Homeless and Persons with Disability

Community Development for Homeless and Persons with Disability Case of The Reclaimers' Street Orchestra Project - Promotion and Advertising 1.0 Situational Analysis Founded by Charles Neville, the "The Reclaimers' Street Orchestra Project" is a Brisbane-based community project which aimed at pooling together homeless and persons with disability through constructing stringed, percussion and wind instruments made from savaged materials. The Reclaimers' Project also provides the homeless and disabled persons to play music together both in small and large groups. Aside from holding workshops two times a week, the project now boasts for its 24-piece orchestra that performs locally, mainly in community events such as the Reverse Garbage opening. Instruments used in performance are handmade, pitch perfect and crafted from recycled materials. Further, the Reclaimers' Project is spearheaded by Reclink, a not-for-profit charitable organisation which dedicates itself t...

Investigating the Role of Community Policing in Community Development

Background of the Study Each and every government around the world is attempting to have a more developed and stabilize community for the people. There are various ways in which community can be developed and one of the debatable issues with regards to community development is community policing. Accordingly, community policing is a philosophical idea for an efficient delivery of police services. Community policing represent an acceptance which the community has a vital and crucial role to place in having a successful resolution of social order and crime problems, and such partnerships with the community can be much more efficient. In addition, community policing also indicates the involvement of the community in terms of the police decision making at the community unit (Leftwich, 1993). The definition states that community policing is a context which promotes pro-active policing by a working partnership and relationship between the wider community and the policy aiming on the crime re...