The complexity of rural contexts experienced by community disability workers in three southern African countries

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dc.contributor.authorBooyens, Margaret
dc.contributor.authorVan Pletzen, Ermien
dc.contributor.authorLorenzo, Theresa
dc.coverage.spatialSouthern Africa: Botswana, Malawi and South Africa: rural areasen_ZA
dc.date.accessioned2015-06-26T14:22:10Z
dc.date.available2015-06-26T14:22:10Z
dc.date.issued2015-06-09
dc.description.abstractAn 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.en_ZA
dc.identifier.apacitationBooyens, M., Van Pletzen, E., & Lorenzo, T. (2015). The complexity of rural contexts experienced by community disability workers in three southern African countries. <i>African Journal of Disability</i>, http://hdl.handle.net/11427/13147en_ZA
dc.identifier.chicagocitationBooyens, Margaret, Ermien Van Pletzen, and Theresa Lorenzo "The complexity of rural contexts experienced by community disability workers in three southern African countries." <i>African Journal of Disability</i> (2015) http://hdl.handle.net/11427/13147en_ZA
dc.identifier.citationBooyens, M, Van Pletzen, E. & Lorenzo, T. (2015). The complexity of rural contexts experienced by community disability workers in three southern African countries. African Journal of Disability, 4(1), Art. #167, 9 pages. http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/ajod.v4i1.167en_ZA
dc.identifier.issn2226-7220en_ZA
dc.identifier.ris TY - Journal Article AU - Booyens, Margaret AU - Van Pletzen, Ermien AU - Lorenzo, Theresa AB - 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. DA - 2015-06-09 DB - OpenUCT DO - 10.4102/ajod.v4i1.167 DP - University of Cape Town J1 - African Journal of Disability KW - Community disability workers KW - rural development LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PB - University of Cape Town PY - 2015 SM - 2226-7220 T1 - The complexity of rural contexts experienced by community disability workers in three southern African countries TI - The complexity of rural contexts experienced by community disability workers in three southern African countries UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/13147 ER - en_ZA
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11427/13147
dc.identifier.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.4102/ajod.v4i1.167
dc.identifier.vancouvercitationBooyens M, Van Pletzen E, Lorenzo T. The complexity of rural contexts experienced by community disability workers in three southern African countries. African Journal of Disability. 2015; http://hdl.handle.net/11427/13147.en_ZA
dc.languageengen_ZA
dc.publisherAOSIS OpenJournalsen_ZA
dc.publisher.departmentDepartment of Social Developmenten_ZA
dc.publisher.facultyFaculty of Humanitiesen_ZA
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Cape Town
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dc.sourceAfrican Journal of Disabilityen_ZA
dc.source.urihttp://www.ajod.org/index.php/ajod
dc.subjectCommunity disability workers
dc.subjectrural development
dc.titleThe complexity of rural contexts experienced by community disability workers in three southern African countriesen_ZA
dc.typeJournal Articleen_ZA
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