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When Helping Hurts: How to Alleviate Poverty Without Hurting the Poor and Yourself

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When Helping Hurts: How to Alleviate Poverty Without Hurting the Poor and Yourself

by Brian Fikkert, Steve Corbett

Moody Publishing | July 1, 2009 | Trade Paperback

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Churches and individual Christians typically have faulty assumptions about the causes of poverty, resulting in the us of strategies that do considerable harm to poor people and themselves. When Helping Hurts provides foundational concepts, clearly articulated general principles and relevent applications. The result ia an effective and holistic ministry to the poor, not a truncated gospel.

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A Fresh approach to helping the poor
by Wendy Svensson
2 years ago

It was interesting to discover that material needs are not at the heart of poverty but is an assumption placed on the poor by others. Psychological factors such as shame, lack of power and self-esteem play a greater role in the ongoing cycle of poverty. This book offers insight into assumptions placed upon the poor and alternative methods to help break the cycle of poverty.