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The Gift of Giving: Empowering Vulnerable Children, Families and Communities in Rural Uganda
Author(s) -
Wakhungu Caleb
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
australian and new zealand journal of family therapy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.297
H-Index - 19
eISSN - 1467-8438
pISSN - 0814-723X
DOI - 10.1002/anzf.1042
Subject(s) - narrative , work (physics) , community work , spark (programming language) , sociology , project commissioning , rural community , economic growth , publishing , public relations , gender studies , political science , socioeconomics , engineering , economics , mechanical engineering , philosophy , linguistics , computer science , law , programming language
Caleb Wakhungu and the Mt Elgon Self‐Help Community Project use narrative ideas and practices to spark and sustain local economic ‘development’ projects in rural Uganda. Their innovative work links community work, therapy and development. This short paper describes the significance of moving away from a children's rights model (which had been imported from the West) to a model of empowering children and families in ways that are congruent with local cultural practices and understandings.