Our social welfare is completely floating on emergencies and relief. If we add long-term perspective in our social welfare sector we can extend it to social develop-ment. So we have to change the approach and we must add some new ideas insocial welfare for the country to progress.
How is this possible when the country is deliberately indebted to external hegemonic powers who ensure that the debt cannot be repaid at the rates of interest charged?
When a single patient comes to us we study his whole history. He tells and shareseach and every problem (i.e., economic or social problem), and our institution triesto solve not only the patient’s problem but we also try to make solutions for hisfamily as much as our institution can solve.
Unlike medical professionals who tend to pathologise, we social workers look at the patient holistically anyway and aim to address the systemic structure of oppression. In the South Asian context this is easily extended by inclusion of the family in the solution we come up with given the collectivist value system.
The people of these provinces are living under a ‘feudal system’; they want theircitizens to be unaware of their rights. Islam is actually based on Haqooq-ul-ibad(i.e., rights of human beings). God may forgive us for not fulfilling His rights(Haqooq Allah) but He will not forgive us for not taking care of human rights(Haqooq-ul-ibad). Our organization is convincing people on the name of Islambut our Muslim scholars are using it for their own welfare.
As a Muslim, this rings very true. Especially, in the South Asian context where corruption is rife and extends to Islamic scholarship too.
But I think the main purpose of social welfare is to help others. Our people areused to helping others in the specific tones of Zakat or Fitrana (religious charity)etc., but social work is to help the poor and deserving people. The concept of help-ing others in our society is by charity or donation. Islam mentions the rights ofwidows, orphans, and neighbours etc. but unfortunately, we’ve made this concepta western concept. Scientific social work is actually the study of people whetherthey deserve it or not.
must be related to the western (Northern) socialwork concept of 'deserving' and 'undeserving'.
Specifically, first, the researchers readthrough all the transcribed material with the objective of identifyingcommon themes; second, the themes were coded; third, data weresearched for similar instances of the same phenomenon, so cate-gories of behavioural and interaction patterns could be identified;and fourth, data were translated into working hypotheses thatwere refined continuously until all instances of contradictions, simi-larities and differences were explained (thus increasing the depend-ability of the findings)
How to apply analytic induction and constant comparison.
Likewise, ‘the teaching of Western-based methodologies of socialwork was to be discouraged and replaced by indigenous methodsevolved from practice in Pakistan’ (Rehmatullah, 2002: 176)
As it should evolve organically as practise continues in the local context.
The International Federation of Social Workers (IFSW) acknowl-edges the role of local knowledge, and emphasizes the understandingof local and cultural context in relation to social work practice(IFSW, 2000a)
It is fully compatible with the libertarian concepts of spontaneous social order, decentralisation, de-concentration and devolution of power.
Ever wondered what life was like for the traditional owners of Perth before the British arrived in 1829?The Noongar people have lived in the south-west corner of Western Australia for at least 45,000 years. There are several language groups that make up the Noongar, including the Whadjuk, who are the traditional owners of the land around Perth.Whadjuk [pronounced wod-JUK] Noongar Elder and ambassador Dr Noel Nannup talks about traditional Whadjuk ways of life and key cultural places in Perth, and he teaches us the Noongar words for some Perth suburbs (such as Nollamara).Some locations are particularly special to the Whadjuk people, such as a cave along the Derbal Yarrigan (the Swan River) where it's believed the creation serpent lives. What other important places does Noel describe?
Wow, the creation serpent lives in a cave along the Derbal Yarrigan (Swan River!)