The complexity of rural contexts experienced by community disability workers in three southern African countries
African Journal of Disability
| Field | Value | |
| Title | The complexity of rural contexts experienced by community disability workers in three southern African countries | |
| Creator | Booyens, Margaret van Pletzen, Ermien Lorenzo, Theresa | |
| Description | An understanding of rural communities is fundamental to effective community-based rehabilitation work with persons with disabilities. By removing barriers to community participation, persons with disabilities are enabled to satisfy their fundamental human needs. However, insufficient attention has been paid to the challenges that rural community disability workers (CDWs) face in trying to realise these objectives. This qualitative interpretive study, involving in-depth interviews with 16 community disability workers in Botswana, Malawi and South Africa, revealed the complex ways in which poverty, inappropriately used power and negative attitudes of service providers and communities combine to create formidable barriers to the inclusion of persons with disabilities in families and rural communities. The paper highlights the importance of understanding and working with the concept of ‘disability’ from a social justice and development perspective. It stresses that by targeting attitudes, actions and relationships, community disability workers can bring about social change in the lives of persons with disabilities and the communities in which they live. | |
| Publisher | AOSIS | |
| Date | 2015-06-09 | |
| Identifier | 10.4102/ajod.v4i1.167 | |
| Source | African Journal of Disability; Vol 4, No 1 (2015); 9 pages 2226-7220 2223-9170 | |
| Language | eng | |
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https://ajod.org/index.php/ajod/article/view/167/318
https://ajod.org/index.php/ajod/article/view/167/319
https://ajod.org/index.php/ajod/article/view/167/320
https://ajod.org/index.php/ajod/article/view/167/292
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