**5.4 Integration and fulfillment of needs**

*Shared values* – this refers to deeper shared ideals that can be pursued through community involvement. This can be related with the children's moral education providing in the school and at home within the "Awramba" community.

*Community economy* – refers to the exchange of resources within the group – this is what fulfills needs. Members participate in communities because their needs are met (need for status, knowledge, friendship, tools, anything). Needs are met through connections with other members. And individuals have to bring something to the table too, for the community to desire their membership. By taking differences from different people and putting them together, the community grows in value. The result of this trusting exchange is wealth, monetary or otherwise. This also related with the "Awramba" communities' means of income (theme-3).

### **5.5 Shared emotional connection**

McMillan and Chavis considered this the "definitive element for true community." It involves a spiritual bond, not necessarily religious, and not easily defined, yet recognizable to those who share it. It's the soul of the people. It's hard to define or describe to outsiders. Members of the community know what this deep bond is for them. This last element is sometimes just thought of as love. It's based on a shared story, a community narrative, the story of my people, and it will have some rituals around that, which remind them why they are together.

These concepts reflected on celebration of the formation of the "Awramba" community and New Year (theme-5), marriage and divorce (theme-6), mourning value (theme-7), and religious views of the community (theme-8) (**Figure 11**).

**Figure 11.**

*The relationship between all themes and the four elements with sense of community.*

*An Ethnographic Study on Sense of a Community: The "Awramba" Experience DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.105953*
