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When Helping Hurts: How to Alleviate Poverty Without Hurting the Poor . . . and Yourself

By: Steve Corbett, Brian Fikkert

Moody Publishers / 2012 / Paperback

5 out of 5 stars (3 Reviews)

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With millions living on $2.00 a day, American Christians are answering God's call to serve the poor. But are we doing more harm than good? Corbett and Fikkert discuss why all poverty isn't created equal; expose the problem of cultural bias; and show how to do short-term missions without doing long-term damage. 240 pages, softcover from Moody.

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Format: Paperback
Number of Pages: 240
Vendor: Moody Publishers
Publication Date: 2012

Dimensions: 8.50 X 5.50 X 0.63 (inches)
ISBN: 0802457061
ISBN-13: 9780802457066
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With more than 200,000 copies sold, When Helping Hurts is a paradigm-forming contemporary classic on the subject of poverty alleviation and ministry to those in need. Emphasizing the poverty of both heart and society, this book exposes the need that every person has and how it can be filled. The reader is brought to understand that poverty is much more than simply a lack of financial or material resources and that it takes much more than donations and handouts to solve the problem of poverty.

While this book exposes past and current development efforts that churches have engaged in which unintentionally undermine the people they're trying to help, its central point is to provide proven strategies that challenge Christians to help the poor empower themselves. Focusing on both North American and Majority World contexts, When Helping Hurts catalyzes the idea that sustainable change for people living in poverty comes not from the outside-in, but from the inside-out.

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STEVE CORBETT is the Community Development Specialist for the Chalmers Center for Economic Development and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics and Community Development at Covenant College. Previously, Steve worked for Food for the Hungry International as the Regional Director for Central And South America and as Director of Staff Training. Steve has a B.A. from covenant College and a M.Ed. in Adult Education from the University of Georgia.

DR. BRIAN FIKKERT is a Professor of Economics and the founder and Executive Director of the Chalmers Center for Economic Development at Covenant College. Dr. Fikkert earned a Ph.D. in economics from Yale University, specializing in international economics and economic development. He has been a consultant to the World Bank and is the author of numerous articles in both academic and popular journals. Prior to coming to Covenant College, he was a professor at the University of Maryland--College Park and a research fellow at the Center for Institutional Reform and the Informal Sector.

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When Helping Hurts: How to Alleviate Poverty Without Hurting the Poor . . . and Yourself 4.7 5 3 3

Gets You Thinking About Poverty This is a fantastic book that raises a lot of questions about poverty and our views towards it. As Americans and as Christians, we like to give. Obviously the whole council of Scripture speaks to this Ã¢ÂÂ that God cares for the poor and we are to care for them as well. We see this in the Old Testament law, in the prophets, in the teachings of Jesus as well as the various New Testament epistles. Corbett and Fikkert do an excellent job digging deeper into various questions and issues surrounding poverty. Basically they question the typical Ã¢ÂÂletÃ¢ÂÂs throw money at this until it goes awayÃ¢ÂÂ solution that most of us (myself included) want to take. Simply put, this doesnÃ¢ÂÂt always work. The authors arenÃ¢ÂÂt downplaying generosity and they certainly encourage the reader to give as much as they are able to give. However, they also help to challenge the audience with thinking about their giving Ã¢ÂÂ are you giving in a manner that helps or are you making the problem worse? A big stand-out for me came with the idea that most of the money we give is to help relieve problems and this is well and good, but eventually if we are not helping to rehabilitate and develop people/programs, then the money essentially enters this black hole and the problem remains. We tend to like short term solutions and the authors question this mentality. Breaking the cycle of poverty isnÃ¢ÂÂt an overnight thing and will take a lot of time and work. The answer might not be as easy as we hope and think it may be. They also raised a lot of great questions about short-term missions trips (I have been on two of these and have greatly praised this mindset). TheyÃ¢ÂÂre not in direct opposition to them, but raise a lot of very good points that many of us may not be thinking about. I would highly recommend this book for anyone involved in Christian charity, especially for those who oversee outreach endeavors, who are interested in missions work and anyone else who is regularly engaged in community partnerships. We need to be thinking about these things much more critically than we are! December 21, 2012

A book that raises questions and challenges. I was made to realize that what I have done in the past expecting to give help may have created a psychological problem in the very people I wanted to help. I may have reduced their sense of self worth by the way the material gifts were given. Evaluation of procedure is necessary. Though I may not have agreed with all the conclusions made by the authors, I certainly was challenged. November 13, 2012

Great book to learn I am not the center of world This book is not easy to read if one takes it to heart and tries to change. It is a realization of how narrow minded we as American really are but gives ideas how to change. Would recommend it for a group that wishes to grow in their discipleship but are not afraid to be extremely accountable to one another. This one is probably one for John Wesley. August 1, 2012