Learning from the rural poor : shared experiences of the mobile orientation and training team

The title of this book expresses best the essential characteristic of the four-year involvement of the Mobile Orientation and Training Team (MOTT) with the rural poor. It also analyses the distinctive methodology developed by MOTT to support the rural poor and oppressed in the discovery of their potential to be makers of their own future. In training animators, MOTT enables them to develop the capacity to work with their people so as to deal creatively with the immediate problems of hunger, disease, indebtedness and agricultural productivity and, while i doing this, to acquire increasingly a critical understanding of the causes of their poverty that are rooted in the nature and functioning of society. The complementary skills of the MOTT team in agriculture, community health and adult education pro vide practical entry points for concrete change through action. that is realistic and integrated through critical consciousness in a clear sense of direction towards a new fature.