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Poverty. HIV. Death.
All factors in Sub-Saharan Africa from the article. To understand social work and how it works, you have to do research because there are so many different fields and each one requires you to have a heart and it teaches you to care for individuals in need.
It is up to the social work and the system to provide necessities to others and show them that living is possible to all and giving up on life shouldn’t be an option.
Living in poverty in Africa has not changed for many of the residents there. Social Welfare needs to do more and be the support system they need, especially for the children. HIV in people has grown miraculously because due to a lack of education about sex and transmitted diseases that are easily passed on. Sub-Saharan Africa does not have the materials to teach everyone how to protect themselves from such diseases. This leads to the death of men and babies. Birth defects are very common and we need to figure out ways to help them understand it. Instead of writing about it in an article, why not stand up for the cause and do something about it?
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WHAT IS SOCIAL WELFARE?
According to Business Dictionary social welfare is “The well-being of the entire society. Social welfare is not the same as standard of living but is more concerned with the quality of life that includes factors such as the quality of the environment (air, soil, water), level of crime, extent of drug abuse, availability of essential social services, as well as religious and spiritual aspects of life.”(http://www.businessdictionary.com/definition/social-welfare.html).
Social welfare provides families and civilians assistance or resources. There are certain amounts given to each depending on where they live or what country they live in.
There are also welfare services. The objective is to take action and cover the well-being of the individual and the society. They are normally managed by governments and institutions or private actors. Their main priority is to help financial situations for people in need and help improve their employment chances. They also help control individuals with mental health problems, according to (understandingsocialscience.wordpress.com) by the Surt Foundation.
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Effective and ineffective.
What I learned from “Social Work Practice to Support Survival Strategies in Sub-Saharan Africa” by Siobhan E. Laird is, living in poverty and living in an area with minimal resources can tear apart a region in a country just as easily as failing a test that I had time to study for.
Also, developing countries do not overcome their battles with money. Social Welfare barely helps because Africa is still living in poverty.
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To understand the article “Social Work Practice to Support Survival Strategies in Sub-Saharan Africa” by (Laird, E., Siobhan), you have to do some research on your own due to old information on the subject.
To argue my side on how ineffective this article is, I pulled information from another article that supported my argument on how not much has changed in the region.
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According to “HIV AND AIDS IN EAST AND SOUTHERN AFRICA REGIONAL OVERVIEW”(https://www.avert.org/professionals/hiv-around-world/sub-saharan-africa/overview) an article from avert.org, as of 2016 there are 19 million people living with HIV, 7.1% adult HIV prevalence, 960,000 new HIV infections, 470,000 AIDS-related deaths.
As you can see the program Centre for the Development of People had very little effect in 2002. In children ages (0-14) there are about 56,000 who are infected with HIV now.
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Social Work Interventions
- “Interventions which complement the social and economic dynamics of multigenerational households, while boosting adaptive survival strategies, have been developed by a number of non-governmental organizations. Notably, Plan International (2002) employs integrated activities which address the inter-dependencies embedded at household level.” (Laird, E., Siobhan).
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Support?
Social Welfare should be able to provide to all. There isn’t a lot of coverage in the Sub-Saharan of Africa, and that makes me wonder why? Is it too much to spend on? What is stopping us from making a difference over there? I believe everyone in this world deserves an opportunity to be able to enjoy life and not worry about not having enough food for their child and to where a child has to die because the water supply isn’t available to them as it is to us. Is Social Welfare doing its part?
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To understand how Social Welfare works, you have to understand how a community works and what it needs. According to a study, social capital was the critical safety net for survival in adverse circumstances. “In such a hazardous environment, social capital became the critical safety net for survival in adverse circumstances”(Laird, E. Siobhan).
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The weak quit. The strong keep moving forward.
Bianca Romero
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We need more to understand the importance of getting people out of poverty and invent ways to supply Africa or other countries living in poverty to help them survive. Social workers have worked up a theory where the people become clients because they have deficits, problems, pathologies, and diseases, they are essentially flawed or weak. :As a consequence, argues Saleebey (1997, p.5), ‘social work has constructed much of its theory and practice around the supposition that clients become clients because they have deficits, problems, pathologies, and diseases; they are, in some essential way, flawed or weak’.” (Laird, E., Siobhan). This is a good example that explains how and why social work is the way it is and society needs to understand that they aren’t horrible humans. But there are times where social workers can step their game up and reach out to those in need of help.
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Social work authors Saleebey and Weick and Chamberlain all had an idea of theory building. They contended the adoption of psychodynamic theories and the widespread use of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, produced by the American Psychiatric Association, have heavily influenced social work across practice approaches. “Tracing the history of theory building, both Saleebey (1997) and Weick and Chamberlain (1997)contend that the adoption of psychodynamic theories and the widespread use of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, produced by the American Psychiatric Association, have heavily influenced social work across practice approaches.”(Laird, E., Siobhan). Sadly, this isn’t what I call a good approach, but it gets the job done.
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Here is a video of the children in Africa that do not have access to clean water or food. According to Laird, there are large areas where there are high levels of infant mortality, malnutrition, illiteracy and conditions of absolute poverty prevail. “Soaring levels of infant mortality, malnutrition, illiteracy and conditions of absolute poverty prevail for large sections of African populations.”(Laird, E. Siobhan) Living in poverty is a huge issue in Africa and there aren’t many resources being brought into the developing country. As a social work major, I think we ought to make a change. As in my generation, seeing as we know more and can provide more for others instead of ourselves.
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