Too often community development is seen purely to be about programs, five-year plans, sets of activities, which can be quantified and reported; school buildings, boreholes, food for relief etc. Village level workers therefore often find themselves under pressure to achieve certain sets of goals within given time periods which forces them to employ less democratic methods to speed up programs. Ujamaa takes a different approach. For us community development is a crusade, a cause to which one must be deeply committed. Community development is not neutral it carries an emotional charge. It is dedicated to progress as a philosophy not science. We view progress with reference to certain values and goals within a given political and social system. Community development is thus a movement institutionalized through organizational structure and accepted procedure. Participation is active and driven by the community almost spontaneously. In the Coast of Kenya many agree that it is time to take on this understanding.