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The exposure and dialogue programmes are aimed at influential
decision-makers from the fields of politics, business,
science, the church and society; working in co-operation
with self-help organisations and church partners, arrangements
are made for them to stay with families who are living
in poverty.
In the direct encounter
with poor people, the participants learn about their host
family’s powers of self-help.
Using life stories as a tool,
the participants gain insights into how poor people are
able to improve their situation by means of their own
efforts and into the values that guide them in their struggle:
„Development has got a face."
By acquiring competency
for action
participants discover new perspectives for poverty orientation.
During this process they are
seeking and finding possible ways in which they can act
in their own areas of impact in order to eradicate the
causes of
poverty and marginalisation, strengthen the self-help
powers of the poor and create structures that are more
just.
Exposure and dialogue programmes support networking among
the participants, so that an environment emerges from
which viable political stimuli emanate. This is why strategies
and reports plus materials for educational and PR work
are also elaborated from the findings of the programmes.
Networking with the aim of forming
solidarity alliances.
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