This dream has been guiding Caritas Cambodia throughout its journey with the poorest and most marginalized sections of the community. It enables Caritas to find new ways of organizing the target communities and new ways of approaching and solving grassroots problems. Caritas Cambodia accepts and respect people’s perspectives in development work and treats the target communities as partners in development. This offers major opportunity to enhance the effectiveness and efficiency of Caritas in its services to the poor. Caritas strongly believes that the active participation of the target groups and their sense of ownership of the program engaged in will bring about the desired results and sustain the outcome of the programs. The grassroots communities with which Caritas Cambodia has been associated in the last five years have demonstrated this. The active participation of the people
at the grassroots level not only contributes to but also challenges us to improve the quality of our interventions.