- To help define the needs of member rural training centres and mobilize
resources with the aim of meeting these needs
- To assist member rural training centres in running their centres and
improving their programmes.
- To create in its members a sense of being part of a caring organisation.
- To assist communication between rural training centres and all levels
of government, between rural training centres and outside organisations
(such as non – governmental organisations (NGOs), churches, funding
sources) and between rural training centres and the public.
- To encourage and support members’ programmes, which preserve
and pass on cultural values and techniques, and foster stewardship of
the environment and respect for human rights.
- To encourage the growth of new rural training centres.
- To encourage Rural Training Centres in the development of physical,
mental, spiritual, social and vocational life in villages.
