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‘This word volunteer is killing us’: Making sense of volunteering in social welfare provision for orphans and vulnerable children in rural Zimbabwe

This qualitative study explored how volunteers delivering social welfare to orphans and vulnerable children through a community initiative supported by donors made sense of volunteering during a period of hyperinflation in Zimbabwe. Volunteering masked the cost of participation, thereby potentially making poverty worse for the poor in a context without a formal welfare system.

Author(s): 
Cathrine Madziva, Martha Chinouya
Year of Publication: 
2016
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Resource Type: 
Journal article - abstract only
Language: 
English
Section: 
Resource Database