For GTV, 'community cooperation' is a way of entering a territory by walking the same roads that the local population walks and doing a long stretch side by side to get to know each other and to decide how to tackle the problems of poverty together, with an integrated approach. This approach is the result of 20 years of presence in South-East Asia through experiences of working mainly with the poorest communities in Vietnam.

GTV implements international cooperation projects for education, water, hygiene and health, food, rural economy and environment. These are projects that link with each other to reinforce each other. They follow one another over time because changing living conditions takes a long time. And they always insist on the same territory because only continuous presence makes us recognised and listened to partners.
Lasting permanence makes it possible to improve knowledge of the area, to integrate with community and local government development strategies and to monitor and evaluate the impact of actions in the medium and long term. Furthermore, it is necessary for an intervention to be able to develop in several directions in order to act fully on the deficiencies that lie at the root of poverty: education, food, rural development, environment, water and sanitation. These are the sectors in which GTV projects are developed.

All this is what GTV means by the words 'Community Cooperation'. Words which, however, acquire greater meaning when they are accompanied by work in the Trentino community, the territory where GTV has its headquarters. In Trentino GTV works to spread a global citizenship: it means stimulating reflection on the meaning of the issues dealt with in international cooperation projects (e.g. the theme of integrated rural development or access to water), which are often not only exclusively linked to distant places but have repercussions or similarities in 'our' local area. All this also brings with it critical thinking on the meaning of local and global in today's society and helps to make Trentino men and women a little more of a citizen of the world.