When Helping Hurts

1. When Helping Hurts • How to Alleviate Poverty without Hurting the Poor and Yourself • By Steve Corbett & Brian Fikkert • What is Poverty? • Four Foundational Relationships and States of Poverty • Relief, Rehabilitation, Development and Paternalism • Asset Based Community Development (ABCD)

2. Introduction to Pastor: Establish the local church / pastor as the decision maker Demonstrates your deferral to pastor’s leadership / doesn’t usurp his authority Initiates a relationship where the person can be discipled by the local church Avoids paternalism and making assumptions

3. Poverty Causes and Strategies

4. Four Foundational Relationships and States of Poverty Briefly describe the Trinity

5. Four Foundational Relationships • God • Self • Others • Rest of Creation • People are able to fulfill their calling of glorifying God by working and supporting themselves and their families • with the fruit of that work.

6. Four Foundational Relationships Discuss and Describe the Meaning of each of the 4 Relationships: God Self Others Rest of Creation

7. States of Poverty

8. Efforts can hurt Both Material Definition of Poverty Feelings of Inferiority of Materially- Poor Harm to Both Materially-Poor and Non-poor God-complexes of Materially Non-Poor = + +

9. 3 Types of Poverty Alleviation Relief: Urgent and temporary provision of emergency aid to reduce immediate suffering from a natural or man-made crisis Rehabilitation: Seeks to restore people and their communities to the positive elements of their pre-crisis conditions. Development: A process of on-going change that moves all the people involved – both the “helpers” and the “helped” – closer to being in right relationships with God, Self, Others, and the Rest of Creation.

10. Paternalism • Paternalism is the interference of a state or an individual with another person, against their will, and defended or motivated by a claim that the person interfered with will be better off or protected from harm – Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy • a system under which an authority undertakes to supply needs or regulate conduct of those under its control in matters affecting them as individuals as well as in their relations to authority and to each other – Merriam-Webster Dictionary • Doing things for people that they can do for themselves - WHH • AVOID PATERNALISM!

11. Types of Paternalism Resource Paternalism Spiritual Paternalism Knowledge Paternalism Labor Paternalism Managerial Paternalism

12. Poverty Alleviation Poverty alleviation is working to Reconcile the Four Foundational Relationships of God, Self, Others, and the Rest of Creation, so that people can Fulfill their Calling to Glorify God by Working & Supporting Themselves and their Families with the Fruit of that Work

13. ABCD: Asset Based Community Development • Focuses on what Materially-poor already have. • Consistent with perspective that God has blessed every individual and community with a host of gifts. • Helps reconcile the relationship of Self for “helpers” and “helped”. • Does not deny needs of low-income people.

14. Community Mapping

15. Ending Quotes from WHH: • A difficult dynamic in missions is that even the belief that outside resources may be forthcoming can mask people’s true motivations for their behaviors. • Participation is not just the means to an end, but rather, a legitimate end in its own right.