
When Helping Hurts
How to Alleviate Poverty Without Hurting the Poor...and Yourself
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Brendan Hunter
With more than 450,000 copies in print, When Helping Hurts is a paradigm-forming contemporary classic on the subject of poverty alleviation.
Poverty is much more than simply a lack of material resources, and it takes much more than donations and handouts to solve it. When Helping Hurts shows how some alleviation efforts, failing to consider the complexities of poverty, have actually (and unintentionally) done more harm than good. But it looks ahead. It encourages us to see the dignity in everyone, to empower the materially poor, and to know that we are all uniquely needy - and that God in the gospel is reconciling all things to himself.
Focusing on both North American and Majority World contexts, When Helping Hurts provides proven strategies for effective poverty alleviation, catalyzing the idea that sustainable change comes not from the outside in, but from the inside out.
©2012 Steve Corbett and Brian Fikkert (P)2021 Steve Corbett and Brian FikkertListeners also enjoyed...




















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Great content, solid principles, highly recommend
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Relevant and Informative
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Such a needed book!
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The book is helpful if you want to build your expertise in this, but I found the book to be intimidating to the average church-goer (if I fall into that category). I owned the book for years and only now made it past the first chapter, and that only because I found myself in contact with a desperate person in the midst of a "majority world" famine.
It is a well-written and useful book, but I think its very existence creates a problem without providing a solution. For me, the title is putting to words a feeling so many of us have had, then increasing the burden. Allow me put the burden to words: "your giving is probably making things worse, and now you must become an expert in establishing ministries and relationships that you have no experience with or access to." Does anybody else see that? That's why I tried to distill the contents of this book for anyone who isn't sure they would benefit from reading it: just focus on ministries that are providing help that lasts.
And give more. The authors said it a few times, but somehow churchgoers aren't getting the message. We are not our own.
Give more, but to ministries helping long-term.
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Good guidance for relationships, not just charitable giving.
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A must read
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The narrator inflected at odd points in sentences and was unfamiliar with Biblical names based on his novel pronunciations.
Great questions, good answers, so-so narrator
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incredible
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changed my thinking
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A Must Read
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