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From Slums to Communities of Hope

Author : Fred Nashed
Publisher : Blurb
ISBN 13 : 9781367552159
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (521 download)

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Download or read book From Slums to Communities of Hope written by Fred Nashed and published by Blurb. This book was released on 2016-06-18 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Urban renewal and slum rehabilitation have a long history of failure or meager success. Many nations have attempted to address this difficult challenge with very little impact on the lives of slum inhabitants. The United Nations is attempting to solve the problem by convincing industrialized nations to donate large amounts of money to be used on improving some of the physical shortcomings of slums such as providing a safe source of potable water and improving utilities. This effort is important, however, it is only one facet of the problem. Other facets include education, social and health services. This book explores several approaches to solve this problem using incremental steps to train the youth to participate in building new housing and furniture as well as providing the population with employment. The proposed solutions follow a four step approach used in urban planning to find solutions to daunting problems. Organizing the slum population to help themselves, rather than having the government do it for them gives the inhabitants the skill and incentive to maintain their habitat rather than vandalize or neglect it. The author has seen many a well-intended project deteriorate and become as bad as the original it replaced, having worked for the Egyptian government on one of these projects.

From Slums to Communities of Hope

Author : Fred Nashed
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781367713451
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (134 download)

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Download or read book From Slums to Communities of Hope written by Fred Nashed and published by . This book was released on 2016-05-12 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Urban renewal and slum rehabilitation have a long history of failure or meager success. Many nations have attempted to address this difficult challenge with very little impact on the lives of slum inhabitants. The United Nations is attempting to solve the problem by convincing industrialized nations to donate large amounts of money to be used on improving some of the physical shortcomings of slums such as providing a safe source of potable water and improving utilities. This effort is important, however, it is only one facet of the problem. Other facets include education, social and health services. This book explores several approaches to solve this problem using incremental steps to train the youth to participate in building new housing and furniture as well as providing the population with employment. The proposed solutions follow a four step approach used in urban planning to find solutions to daunting problems. Organizing the slum population to help themselves, rather than having the government do it for them gives the inhabitants the skill and incentive to maintain their habitat rather than vandalize or neglect it. The author has seen many a well-intended project deteriorate and become as bad as the original it replaced, having worked for the Egyptian government on one of these projects.

Quest for Hope in the Slum Community

Author : Scott Bessenecker
Publisher : Authentic Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781932805192
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Quest for Hope in the Slum Community written by Scott Bessenecker and published by Authentic Publishing. This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Humanity has existed on earth for thousands of years, yet we are just now beginning to experience a kind of community that has never before existed—the slum community. As the number of slum communities and those living in them continue to rise at an alarming rate, Christians need to examine their role in sharing the hope, joy, healing, and servanthood of Christ to those in despair. Quest for Hope in the Slum Community is a collection of the diverse dialog that exists in the area of urban transformation. Everything from housing to street children along with a healthy collection of articles around a theology of urban poverty is addressed. This material is designed to stimulate the imagination of those exploring the question of how to address with compassion and conviction the stark realities of urban poverty.

Slums of Hope?

Author : Peter Cutt Lloyd
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719007071
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Slums of Hope? written by Peter Cutt Lloyd and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1979 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Aim Of The Book Is To Examine The View Held By Urban Poor Of Their Society And To Understand Their Hopes Or Frustrations, Thier Activity Or Apparent Apathy, In The Light Of Their Perceptions.

Find Me Unafraid

Author : Kennedy Odede
Publisher : Ecco
ISBN 13 : 9780062292865
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (928 download)

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Download or read book Find Me Unafraid written by Kennedy Odede and published by Ecco. This book was released on 2016-07-26 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Find Me Unafraid tells the uncommon love story between two uncommon people whose collaboration sparked a successful movement to transform the lives of vulnerable girls and the urban poor. With a Foreword by Nicholas Kristof. This is the story of two young people from completely different worlds: Kennedy Odede from Kibera, the largest slum in Africa, and Jessica Posner from Denver, Colorado. Kennedy foraged for food, lived on the street, and taught himself to read with old newspapers. When an American volunteer gave him the work of Mandela, Garvey, and King, teenaged Kennedy decided he was going to change his life and his community. He bought a soccer ball and started a youth empowerment group he called Shining Hope for Communities (SHOFCO). Then in 2007, Wesleyan undergraduate Jessica Posner spent a semester abroad in Kenya working with SHOFCO. Breaking all convention, she decided to live in Kibera with Kennedy, and they fell in love.Their connection persisted, and Jessica helped Kennedy to escape political violence and fulfill his lifelong dream of an education, at Wesleyan University. The alchemy of their remarkable union has drawn the support of community members and celebrities alike—The Clintons, Mia Farrow, and Nicholas Kristof are among their fans—and their work has changed the lives of many of Kibera’s most vulnerable population: its girls. Jess and Kennedy founded Kibera’s first tuition-free school for girls, a large, bright blue building, which stands as a bastion of hope in what once felt like a hopeless place. But Jessica and Kennedy are just getting started—they have expanded their model to connect essential services like health care, clean water, and economic empowerment programs. They’ve opened an identical project in Mathare, Kenya’s second largest slum, and intend to expand their remarkably successful program for change. Ultimately this is a love story about a fight against poverty and hopelessness, the transformation made possible by a true love, and the power of young people to have a deep impact on the world.

Hope and Spice

Author : Amanda Clegg
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781733451208
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (512 download)

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Download or read book Hope and Spice written by Amanda Clegg and published by . This book was released on 2019-09-21 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A unique collection of authentic Indian recipes gathered from communities thriving against all odds in the slums of Delhi.

Beyond Homelessness

Author : Steven Bouma-Prediger
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0802846920
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (28 download)

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Download or read book Beyond Homelessness written by Steven Bouma-Prediger and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2008-06-03 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a brilliant use of metaphor that makes clear why the world leaves us feeling so uneasy!

Slum Life Rising

Author : Ash Barker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781999779870
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (798 download)

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Download or read book Slum Life Rising written by Ash Barker and published by . This book was released on 2018-02 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ash Barker and his family were Australian missionaries in Bangkok, and the personal stories are compelling. Ash also includes a lot of research regarding the future of the world's population in regards to slum dwelling...sobering statistics.

The Hope Quotient

Author : Ray Johnston
Publisher : HarperChristian + ORM
ISBN 13 : 0529101165
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (291 download)

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Download or read book The Hope Quotient written by Ray Johnston and published by HarperChristian + ORM. This book was released on 2014-05-13 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What’s at the heart of every thriving person, every thriving marriage, kid, and business? Hope! The Hope Quotient is a revolutionary new method for measuring—and dramatically increasing—your level of hope. Hope is more than a feeling; it’s the by-product of seven key factors. When these are present in your life, they cause hope to thrive. Factor 1: Recharge Your Batteries Nobody does well running on empty. Factor 2: Raise Your Expectations You don’t get what you deserve; you get what you expect. Factor 3: Refocus on the Future It’s time to throw away your rearview mirror. No one goes forward well when they are looking back. Factor 4: Play to Your Strengths Be yourself; everyone else is taken. Factor 5: Refuse to Go It Alone Never underestimate the power of support. Even the Lone Ranger had Tonto. Factor 6: Replace Burnout with Balance Burning the candle at both ends isn’t as bright as you think. Factor 7: Play Great Defense Avoid these five toxic hope killers that can threaten your future. Using seven years of research, powerful biblical illustrations, and compelling human-interest stories, Ray Johnston explains how these seven essential factors will support, sustain, and strengthen your hope. And when consciously built into your life, how they will unleash hope in your marriage, your kids, your career, your church, your community, and the world. Discover your HQ level, the most important contributor to your overall success, and then learn how to improve it. Because when hope rises—everything changes. FLAP COPY: Hope: It’s the one thing that can change everything! When you have hope, eleven things are unleashed in your life: You have more satisfying relationships. You’re more productive. You’re less affected by stress. You’re more successful. You’re more satisfied. You’re more compassionate. You’re more willing to help people in need. You’re physically healthier. You hold yourself to higher moral and ethical standards. You’re more likely to assume leadership. You’re more likely to see God as loving, caring, and forgiving. This book will help you discover your HQ level and learn the seven key factors that, when built into your life, unleash hope. When you have genuine hope—not trite, pious platitudes but authentic hope that produces inner strength and confidence—anything is possible.

Cities, Slums and Gender in the Global South

Author : Sylvia Chant
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317950364
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (179 download)

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Download or read book Cities, Slums and Gender in the Global South written by Sylvia Chant and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-12-22 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Developing regions are set to account for the vast majority of future urban growth, and women and girls will become the majority inhabitants of these locations in the Global South. This is one of the first books to detail the challenges facing poorer segments of the female population who commonly reside in ‘slums’. It explores the variegated disadvantages of urban poverty and slum-dwelling from a gender perspective. This book revolves around conceptualisation of the ‘gender-urban-slum interface’ which explains key elements to understanding women’s experiences in slum environments. It has a specific focus on the ways in which gender inequalities are can be entrenched but also alleviated. Included is a review of the demographic factors which are increasingly making cities everywhere ‘feminised spaces’, such as increased rural-urban migration among women, demographic ageing, and rising proportions of female-headed households in urban areas. Discussions focus in particular on education, paid and unpaid work, access to land, property and urban services, violence, intra-urban mobility, and political participation and representation. This book will be of use to researchers and professionals concerned with gender and development, urbanisation and rural-urban migration.

Hope Abundant

Author : Pui-lan Kwok
Publisher : Orbis Books
ISBN 13 : 1608332446
Total Pages : 487 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (83 download)

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Download or read book Hope Abundant written by Pui-lan Kwok and published by Orbis Books. This book was released on 2010 with total page 487 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1988 Virginia Fabella from the Philippines and Mercy Amba Oduyoye from Ghana coedited With Passion and Compassion: Third world Women Doing Theology, based on the work of the Women's Commission of the Ecumenical Association of Third World Theologians (EATWOT). The book has been widely used as an important resource for understanding women's liberation theologies, in Africa, Asia, and Latin America emerging out of women's struggles for justice in church and society. More than twenty years have passed and it is time to bring out a new collection of essays to signal newer developments and to include emerging voices. Divided into four partsContext and Theology; Scripture; Christology; and Body, Sexuality, and Spiritualitythese carefully selected essays paint a vivid picture of theological developments among indigenous women and other women living in the global South who face poverty, violence, and war and yet find abundant hope through their faith.

Cities and Inequalities in a Global and Neoliberal World

Author : Faranak Miraftab
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134521103
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (345 download)

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Download or read book Cities and Inequalities in a Global and Neoliberal World written by Faranak Miraftab and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-04-24 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cities continue to be key sites for the production and contestation of inequalities generated by an ongoing but troubled neoliberal project. Neoliberalism’s onslaught across the globe now shapes diverse inequalities -- poverty, segregation, racism, social exclusion, homelessness -- as city inhabitants feel the brunt of privatization, state re-organization, and punishing social policy. This book examines the relationship between persistent neoliberalism and the production and contestation of inequalities in cities across the world. Case studies of current city realities reveal a richly place-specific and generalizable neoliberal condition that further deepens the economic, social, and political relations that give rise to diverse inequalities. Diverse cases also show how people struggle against a neoliberal ethos and hence the open-endedness of futures in these cities.

Failure and Hope

Author : Christine Mahoney
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107162815
Total Pages : 167 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Failure and Hope written by Christine Mahoney and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-07-28 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book documents how global advocacy on behalf of refugees has failed, and proposes a new strategy using social entrepreneurship.

Hope in a Collapsing World

Author : Kathleen Gallagher
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1487541228
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (875 download)

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Download or read book Hope in a Collapsing World written by Kathleen Gallagher and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2022-03-31 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For young people, the space of the drama classroom can be a space for deep learning as they struggle across difference to create something together with common purpose. Collaborating across institutions, theatres, and community spaces, the research in Hope in a Collapsing World mobilizes theatre to build its methodology and create new data with young people as they seek the language of performance to communicate their worries, fears, and dreams to a global network of researchers and a wider public. A collaboration between a social scientist and a playwright and using both ethnographic study and playwriting, Hope in a Collapsing World represents a groundbreaking hybrid format of research text and original script – titled Towards Youth: A Play on Radical Hope – for reading, experimentation, and performance.

Uprising of Hope

Author : Duncan Earle
Publisher : Rowman Altamira
ISBN 13 : 9780759105416
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (54 download)

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Download or read book Uprising of Hope written by Duncan Earle and published by Rowman Altamira. This book was released on 2005 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Zapatistas of Chiapas, Mexico, have often been portrayed in reductive, polarized terms; either as saintly activists or dangerous rebels. Cultural anthropologists Duncan Earle and Jeanne Simonelli, drawing on decades-long relationships and fieldwork, attained a collegiality with the Zapatistas that reveals a more complex portrait of a people struggling with self-determination on every level. Seeking a new kind of experimental ethnography, Earle & Simonelli have chronicled a social experiment characterized by resistance, autonomy and communality. Combining their own compelling narrative as participant-observers, and those of their Chiapas compadres, the authors effectively call for an activist approach to research. The result is a unique ethnography that is at once analytical and deeply personal. Uprising of Hope will be compelling reading for scholars and general readers of anthropology, social justice, ethnography, Latin American history and ethnic studies.

Liberation Is Here

Author : Nikole Lim
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
ISBN 13 : 083083186X
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book Liberation Is Here written by Nikole Lim and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2020-09-22 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When confronted with the prevalence of sexual violence in Kenyan and Zambian communities, filmmaker Nikole Lim committed to advocating alongside her courageous African sisters to end the cycle of violence through faith, education, and self-empowerment. Weaving together these women's powerful stories, Lim paints a picture of God's grace and healing amid fear and trauma.

The Oxford Handbook of the Modern Slum

Author : Alan Mayne
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190879459
Total Pages : 601 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (98 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of the Modern Slum written by Alan Mayne and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023-08-25 with total page 601 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ""Slum" is among the most evocative and judgmental words of the modern world. It originated in the slang language of the world's then-largest city, London, early in the nineteenth century. Its use thereafter proliferated, and its original meanings unraveled as colonialism and urbanization transformed the world, and as prejudice against those disadvantaged by these transformations became entrenched. Cuckoo-like, "slum" overtook and transformed other local idioms: for example, bustee, favela, kampong, shack. "Slum" once justified heavy-handed redevelopment schemes that tore apart poor but viable neighborhoods. Now it underpins schemes of neighbourhood renewal that, seemingly benign in their intentions, nonetheless pay scant respect to the viewpoints of their inhabitants. This Oxford Handbook probes both present-day understandings of slums and their historical antecedents. It discusses the evolution of slum "improvement" policies globally from the early nineteenth century to the early twenty-first century. It encompasses multiple perspectives: anthropology, archaeology, architecture, geography, history, politics, sociology, urban studies and urban planning. It emphasizes the influences of gender and race inequality, and the persistence of subaltern agency notwithstanding entrenched prejudice and unsympathetically-applied institutionalized power. Uniquely, it balances contributions from scholars who deny the legitimacy of "slum" in social and policy analysis, with those who accept its relevance as a measuring stick of social disadvantage and as a vehicle for social reform. This Handbook does not simply footnote the past; it critiques conventional understandings of urban social disadvantage and reform across time and place in the modern world. It suggests pathways for future research and for alleviative reform"--