Word: self-help
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...awakening of self-reliance in the urban poor is a global phenomenon. In Karachi, architect Akhter Hameed Khan rallied the people of the Orangi district around a self-help initiative to upgrade their sanitation. With 800,000 residents from five of Pakistan's major ethnic groups, the neighborhood is periodically racked by violence. Still, working lane by lane, beginning in 1980, Hameed Khan and his co-workers in the Orangi Pilot Project proved to the district that with a tiny investment ($40 a house), it could install its own sewerage system. Since then, roughly 70% of the 6,347 lanes...
COMBINING CONSERVATIVE VALUES SUCH AS RESPONsibility and self-help with liberal ones like tolerance and generosity -- which is precisely the covenant that Clinton proposes -- could conquer the corrosive tactic of making wedge issues out of racial fears and sexual prejudices. In his acceptance speech at the Democratic Convention, Clinton decried the us-vs.-them politics of division. "This is America," he said. "There is no 'them'; there is only us." He then maneuvered to ensure that, unlike in 1988, in fact unlike in any election since 1960, race was not an issue. Partly he achieved this by shying away from...
...worldwide non-profit agency "funds self-help development and disaster relief projects in Africa, Asia, the Americas and the Caribbean," according to its literature...
Though it deals with the environment rather than psychology, Gore's own book, Earth in the Balance, is infused with self-help concepts. Gore speaks of a "dysfunctional civilization" and uses terms like "pathology of addiction" and "denial" to discuss humanity's relationship to the earth. "Just as the members of a dysfunctional family emotionally anesthetize themselves against the pain they would otherwise feel," he writes, "our dysfunctional civilization has developed a numbness that prevents us from feeling the pain of our alienation from our world...
...president of the Black Students Association last night called for a "fresh start" to the year, pushing a platform of unity and self-help in the Black community...