The Strengths Project
Finding Solutions through Strengths
Our Mission
The mission of The Strengths Project is to help underprivileged individuals and groups identify, develop, and use strengths to enhance quality of life and improve their life circumstances.
What is The Strengths Project?
Our Recent Activity
In February 2008 a team from The Strengths Project, Robert Biswas-Diener, Reena Govindji, and Alex Linley, traveled to Kolkata to meet with people from underprivileged communities and better understand their lives through their own words and stories. We also hoped to form lasting connections with underprivileged neighborhoods in which we might work and to identify local charity partners with whom we could provide services. We are pleased to announce that we were successful on all fronts.
We were able to meet with a number of slum dwellers, speak with them about their needs and strengths, and develop on-going relationships with community leaders.
We are also pleased to have hired Avirupa Bhaduri as our local representative who will oversee the developmentand implementation of The Strengths Project initiatives as they develop. The first of these is to be the first ever strengths map of a slum community. Over the coming months we will be conducting dozens of interviews aimed at identifying the individual and collective strengths of people living in the Shiritri neighborhood slum. We are excited by the idea that it is possible to look at the best qualities of those living in poverty and learn how these strengths will help lead to success and protect from failure.
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The Smallest Thing to Make the Biggest Difference
At The Strengths Project we very much believe in the idea of the smallest thing to make the biggest difference. We understand the realities of poverty. We understand it as a systemic condition and that dramatic measures are called for to improve quality of life for the impoverished masses. But we have also seen the smallest things, the novelty of a foot race with a foreigner, a bag of potato chips to reward a child, can make a disproportionately large difference in the lives of the poor. Join us in doing the smallest thing to make the biggest difference.
The Smallest Thing
To contribute your own ideas about the smallest thing to make the biggest difference, please share your thoughts with us. Get in contact with us at capp@cappeu.com
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