商品簡介
Lekoko cites government and their development partners as losing hope in the welfare approach as a means of improving the lives of the disadvantaged or those at the grassroots level of society. With the help of her contributors she presents cases which illustrate what people at the grassroot level have done that gave brought positive transformation (empowerment) into their lives. The book describes different factors that impede achieving empowerment: politics, bureaucracy, inertia, and self-defeating attributes. A sample of the subject matter contained in the fifteen chapters is as follows: empowering women and families through self help groups; women entrepreneurs address poverty and social change through empowering grassroots initiatives in Tanzania; reflections from inside the world of empowered women; recreating Tokelau; empowerment through elegant designs; visible barriers to economic empowerment; an NGO's efforts to empower ex-convicts in Botswana; a narrative description of disclosing sensitive information to empower an HIV/AIDS infected or affected child; triple A leadership dynamics of a self-empowering women group; and ”Net” social change. Annotation c2015 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
