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When Helping Hurts: How to Alleviate Poverty Without Hurting the Poor . . . and Yourself by Steve Corbett; Brian Fikkert; John Perkins; David Platt is a religious work available to read on EtoBox.

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With more than 300,000 copies in print, 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 Read more...

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Author

Steve Corbett; Brian Fikkert; John Perkins; David Platt

Publisher

Moody Publishers

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9780802487629

Category

religious

Subjects

Science, Christian, Fiction

Rating

4.23 / 5 (230 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14