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Robert Woodson on Effective Charity

Bob Woodson explains the problem with the 'therapeutic model' of many social service programs and charity organizations, which threaten the human dignity of the recipient by seeing them as helpless in their poverty. People feel most dignified and least degraded when they earn the things they have, not when they are given things. Hand-outs often reinforce the problem of dependency and the unequal provider/recipient or therapist/client relationship that is intrinsic to the therapeutic model of charity. Find the DVD Series here: http://store.povertycure.org/pc-media... Join the Conversation: http://povertycure.org http://facebook.com/povertycure http://twitter.com/povertycure http://instagram.com/povertycure

Rethink Poverty

Subtitled in 15 languages, this six part video series that will change absolutely everything about how you approach charity and missions.

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