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A group of young children with their nurses at the Village Development Centre at Shewaki. The banner at the back says “The Village Development Project is recognised as the best means of raising the people’s standard of living” VILLAGE DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS Comprehensive schemes have been started to modernise farming and widen the interests of the villagers. THE Provincial Council of the Village Development Authority in the third year of the Plan inaugurated a new Project in Parwan. It also considered establishing a similar council in Logar. Various Committees were established during the year in the several Village Development Projects, and they discussed ways and means of creating mutual understanding and an atmosphere of co operation and harmony among their various members. The programmes initiated during the year were all under taken after careful research by specialists and technical officers of the Village Development Authority, and with the full co-operation of the communities. The United Nations Technical Assist ance Board continued to help the various sections of the Project as in the past. A six months' practical training course was established which accepts students from the twelfth grade of the Teachers’ Train ing Schools. Its aim is to produce graduates who are well aware of the theoretical and practical objects of Village Development in Afghanistan and who will help the Authority in its plans for further expanding the Project. Emphasis is placed on training in agri culture, health and handicrafts, subjects which will be supervised in primary schools by graduates of the course and 89