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Below: Drought in Ethiopia.
avoid causing more harm, especially in
regions of the world where people have
endured countless tragedies from military
conflict, or are attempting to recover
from a natural disaster.
In founding social work education
schools and programmes in Africa and
Europe, Tasse ‘...emphasised methods
for students to build knowledge
about their own communities and
articulate a new vision that’s local to
the communities they work in’, rather
than merely applying methods that were
developed from outside.
It was thought that everything could
be imported from Europe in terms of
knowledge and culture. Many educated
people were sent to Europe to learn
techniques as if techniques were not
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