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Learning Your Abcds: Asset-Based Community Development Through Education Abroad And Community Engaged Research In Rural Malawi, Jennifer Wapinski, Lisa V. Blitz, Denise Yull
Learning Your Abcds: Asset-Based Community Development Through Education Abroad And Community Engaged Research In Rural Malawi, Jennifer Wapinski, Lisa V. Blitz, Denise Yull
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"The project is a partnership with the Malawi Children’s Mission (MCM), a feeding center and primary school that provides health care and emotional support services to 150 children who have been orphaned and their families in the rural villages of M'bwana, Jamali, and Mwazama. Asset-based community development (ABCD; Kretzman & McKnight, 1996) was used in the context of community engaged research to establish a sustainable university-assisted component of MCM through education abroad. ABCD relies upon individual and collective strengths and resources of community members to address the problems they define as needing attention, and has been used successfully in sub-Saharan …