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A few weeks ago we made mention of this book. "When Helping Hurts" - How to alleviate poverty without hurting the poor and yourself.
Today we get to hear one of the authors, Stever Corbett, speak. This book is filled with a lot of hard truths about the way our "help" is often times very damaging to the people we're working with and among. We've learned a lot in our time in Haiti (still learning) and are nodding in agreement while reading this, if you're considering any sort of work with the poor we highly recommend this book.
Here is a link to their site if you would like to check it out.
4 comments:
sounds good! We have seen that too! It takes a lot of wisdom and balance to know how to truly help.
thanks. it sounds great. enjoy your time.
One of our pastors who has long been involved in outreach to the poor in our town has given me this book and I've been reading it.
Although ours is small scale starting from friendship, we are now leading an outreach to Haitian community in our area. In fact, I'll be teaching English starting tomorrow. We've already grappled with some hard questions. This book has been helpful to say the least.
Blessings!
Kristie (lessmemoreyou.blogspot.com)
I'm the director of a benevolence ministry in Texas. Last year, I found this book and read it---then had our entire board read it. It's an EXCELLENT help!
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