When Helping Hurts by Steve Corbett & Brian Fikkert

When Helping Hurts: How to Alleviate Poverty Without Hurting the Poor . . . and Yourself by Steve Corbett & Brian Fikkert

With more than 450,000 copies in print, When Helping Hurts is a paradigm-forming contemporary classic on the subject of poverty alleviation. Authors Steve Corbett and Brian Fikkert show that poverty is much more than simply a lack of material resources and that many well-intentioned alleviation efforts have actually—and unintentionally—done more harm than good. This book is for anyone seeking to create a more effective approach to helping others, without creating further dependency or harm.

A New Paradigm for Poverty Alleviation

This book challenges traditional thinking about poverty by encouraging us to see the dignity in everyone and to empower the materially poor to create sustainable change from the inside out. Drawing on proven strategies and focusing on both North American and Majority World contexts, this book offers a fresh, gospel-centered approach to poverty alleviation. By first understanding our own neediness and our relationship to God, we can better understand how to walk alongside others to bring about lasting transformation.