Word: self-help
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...inevitable twinge of conscience accompanied the realization that so little here equals so much there. Boston-based Oxfam-America, an organization devoted to worldwide famine relief, sponsored a recent day-long nationwide fast; the money that would otherwise have been spent on food will provide emergency aid and self-help agricultural programs to needy countries. A number of religious leaders have advocated that such campaigns become a regular feature of the national scene...
Organizers of the center say they hope that it will serve both as an informational clearinghouse on women's affairs and "as a pressure group to assure that all women be granted greater rights." The center is sponsoring a variety of projects this fall, including a series of medical self-help groups; a program of informal workshops dealing with such issues as birth control, rape and female sexuality; a course in self-defense; and a number of consciousnessraising groups focusing on personal and political issues...
...roughly translates as "the all-powerful warrior who, because of his endurance and will to win, will go from contest to contest leaving fire in his wake." Most of the news items are about Mobutu, and the broadcast closes with a commentary on "Mobutuism"-an amalgam of nationalist and self-help bromides that are credited with having "made of Zaire and Zaireans what they are today." Adulation of Mobutu does not stop at the TV tube. Millions of Zaireans sport the presidential likeness on T shirts, and songwriters frequently mention Mobutu in their lyrics...
...most cases there is little hope that amputation can be avoided. But some of its trauma can be reduced. The reason is an organization called Reach to Recovery. Founded in New York in 1953 by Terese Lasser and now operating in all 50 states, Reach is an exercise in self-help that uses women who have undergone mastectomies to counsel women who have just had the operation. Their approach is nothing if not direct. Volunteers visit patients three to five days after the operation, about the time that the worst post-surgical depression begins to set in. A few even...
...base and philosophy are self-help and a grassroot challenge to the patriarcal system," the statement says. "Self-help is a tool which works on many levels; demystifying the medical establishment, demystifying our bodies, providing the means and methods whereby we are able to take responsibility over our health care, our lives and our environment...