Closest

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There's a word for the kind of people-helping development that Robert Woodson's organization practices. It's an organizing principle that the Catholic church calls subsidiarity, which holds that "human affairs are best handled at the lowest possible level, closest to the affected persons."

That's exactly what they do when they enable and train neighborhood leaders who are already doing good things.

You saw Woodson in yesterday's video say that good medical care uses less invasive, less intrusive methods - antibodies as opposed to, say, a transplant.  The best solutions are closest to the problem, not outsider programs that must be "parachuted in."

Watch this video about one of his organization's ministries. "Outcry" reaches all sorts of addicts with hope that they can have a better life. You'll see former addicts helping current addicts, people who've kicked the disease sharing their antibodies.


(cont'd tomorrow)