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Good Intentions Are Not Enough: Why We Fail At Helping Others

Name: Good Intentions Are Not Enough: Why We Fail At Helping Others
Author: Robin Boon Peng Low

Why We Fail at Helping Others

Robin Boon Peng Low,

192 pages
English
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Good Intentions Are Not Enough: Why We Fail At Helping Others

Why We Fail at Helping Others

Robin Boon Peng Low,

About this book

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Disaster strikes, transforming cities and towns into graveyards and wastelands in a matter of minutes. But help is on its way: news channels and social media relay the information to all corners of the globe in real-time, mobilising hundreds of people and organisations to aid. Yet, with standard relief packages regardless of the location, and a lack of effort taken to match volunteers' skills with tasks, just how effective are we at helping others?

Many people want to do good, but they like to do it at their convenience. These attempts at helping often fail, and the blame invariably falls on the disaster victims, rather than looking at the suitability of aid provided. Such help, offered without a thorough understanding of the context or the impact of actions, can create situations that leave the victims worse off than before.

So how can we create real sustainable impact?

Most communities have a lot of unused human capacity. When offering help, many aid providers fail to engage the local communities, thus excluding a critical group of people with the knowledge of local ways and needs.

This book elaborates on a simple principle essential to effective aid — Never Help: Engage, Enable, Empower and Connect.

It is important that we fully understand the problem before we try to solve it, and who better to help us with solutions than the local community?

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Introduction
Shifting Morals and Ethics
Why We Fail at Helping
Traveling Overseas to Help? Whom are You Helping?
Scapegoating
The Dangers of Social Intervention
The Curse of Exclusion
Paradox in the Social Sphere
The Great Convergence
Empowering State of Mind
Having More Social Enterprise is Not Enough
Case Study 1: Rescued Prostitutes
Case Study 2: Internet Comes to El Limón
Case Study 3: The Flower Lady
The Unequal Distribution of Resources
Giving Done Wrong
Free Destroys the Economy
Good Intentions Fail
Case Study 4: Sanitation Woes
Case Study 5: They Ate the Chickens
Case Study 6: Community Involvement Program Gone Wrong
Social Technology
Peace Technology, Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship
CSR 2.0
Social Intrapreneur
Social Business
Design Thinking and Social Innovation
Social Community
Crabs versus Turtles
Risk versus Innovation
Never Help, Engage, Enable, Empower & Connect
Case Study 7: Amazon Disaster Registry
Case Study 8: Disaster Recovery through Art and Tourism
Case Study 9: Relief B2B (Business to Business)
Case Study 10: Relief B2V (Business to Village)
Case Study 11: Relief Enterprise
Human-Centric Community Empowerment
Social Capital
Circular Economy
Case Study 12: Prison Entrepreneurship
Case Study 13: Solar Forward
Case Study 14: The Sustainability Place of Destiny ("SPOD")
Jump Start Self-Organizing
Conscious Consumerism — The Needed Change
Iteration versus Innovation
Social Innovation is Not an Easy Task
Responsibility & Reciprocity
Conclusion

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Readership: Volunteer welfare organisations, charities, foundations, people involved in post-disaster relief, social workers, schools/universities/students interested in volunteer activities.
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