Aid or Development: Charity or Social Justice?

Aid or Development: Charity or Social Justice?

Date: Saturday 13 March 2010 - DOWNLOAD PDF FLYER

Presenter: Janeen Murphy

Course Outline:

Most people agree that poverty is obscene. Many fear that we are stuck with it. This Intensive explores techniques and understandings that are already building a world in which poverty need not be. This Intensive provides participants with an opportunity to:

• reflect upon key issues in aid and development;
• build clarity about the practical and conceptual similarities and differences between aid, development, charity and social justice;
• engage with the Millennium Development Goals as a framework for identifying development priorities;
• examine Caritas Australia’s mandate and model of development; and
• learn how to become involved in campaigns to tackle poverty.

Janeen Murphy is Global Education Advisor for Caritas Australia. She has worked in this position for 8 years, including working with Caritas partners ‘on the ground’ in Uganda, Timor-Leste (East Timor), Cambodia and India. Janeen runs education programs in schools and higher education institutions, providing pathways to engage with justice issues.