The Politics of Volunteering by Nina Eliasoph

Author:Nina Eliasoph
Format: epub
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

Empowerment Projects

The rest of this chapter will focus on a large subset of NGOs: those that aim to “empower” people, and use what you could call “empowerment talk.” They call for engagement that blends many missions:

Civic self-help, being open, egalitarian, voluntary, helping the volunteer by making him/her responsible;

Innovation, being deeply challenging, inspiring, multicultural, aimed at getting you to “break out of your box” and to “stretch your comfort zone,’” personally transformative;

Hands-on, appreciation of unique people and cultures, community-based, local, natural, grassroots, not based on distant, abstract expert knowledge;

Transparency to many distant, hurried sponsors, easily accountable on a short time-line;

Helping the needy without being “charity.”

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