Empowerment - a matter of life or death
Posted in Articles, Communities, Empowerment, Homepage on Dec 15th, 2006
What’s in a word? In an environment of jargon, cliché and political
correctness the word ‘empowerment’ has suffered badly. Let’s stand
back, and elevate it to its proper place: arguably, empowerment is the key concept for people supporting community development.
There are two housing estates on the outskirts of Glasgow: Drumchapel
and Bearsden. In the early nineties, life expectancy [...]
