Social Action
For Bahá’ís, social action is pursued with the conviction that every population should be able to trace the path of its own progress.
Social and Economic Development
The efforts of Bahá’ís to engage in social action are usually carried out by small groups of individuals in a locality where the courses of the training institute are being widely offered. Efforts emerge out of growing collective consciousness. Most are projects of a fixed duration. They come to a close when their objectives have been met. They may be related to any one of a variety of fields, for example, health, sanitation, education, agriculture or environmental protection. Whatever their nature, they aim at improving some aspect of the life of the local population, by the local population. In a few cases, those engaged in grassroots social action are able to extend the range of their activities organically, and their efforts evolve into projects of a more sustained nature, with administrative structure.
