CARE ventured into infrastructure development in Allai based on the needs and issues identified by local community members. CARE, partly through cash for work schemes, using local labor power restored basic infrastructure works. The infrastructure development schemes to date have served a total of 30,000 people. Many of these schemes consist of more than one sub-scheme. The infrastructure sector mostly consists of small communication and irrigation structures, the water-mills and micro hydropower stations. This Cash for Work program was designed to grow incrementally in size, with the numbers of laborers involved, dictated by the type of projects. All projects were identified by the communities, and the communities were also asked to prioritize the projects, and to supply the labor. The target projects of the cash-for-work program were initially repair projects for small-scale infrastructure identified as being of need for the whole community, and within the common ownership or usage. Initially modest in scale, collectively these projects have had a physical and social impact greater than the sum of their parts and in some cases went beyond the baseline of October 8th, to the clearing of roads which had been blocked for years previously. The organic development of this program, following community prioritization and community pace, has been the key to the program’s success, and the key to the resulting community empowerment through those successes. To date, around 16,000 people have benefited through this scheme.