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The involvement of extended families in the wellness of orphans in a primary school in Masvingo city in ZimbabweMafumbate, Racheal 16 April 2014 (has links)
D.Phil. (Career and Life Orientation) / The study focuses on how extended families are involved on the wellness of orphans at a primary school in Masvingo City in Zimbabwe. Through an ethnographic research design, the study aimed to establish the involvement of extended families and challenges they face in rendering support and care to orphans. This study draws an intensive ethnographic research interrogative approach through observations, interviews, researcher made test and document analysis in order to establish the challenges by orphans and extended families and how these challenges may impact on orphans wellness. By using an integrative lens the researcher was mainly trying to get a better perspective of looking at the four wellness dimensions of orphans in a much broader way. An integrative framework lens namely Ubuntu, Bronfenbrenner’s bio- ecological systems theory and Maslow’s hierarchy of needs were mainly used to try and get a broader/better perspective of how extended families are involved in caring for orphans. Five orphans, five extended family heads, one school guidance and counselling teacher, one Social Welfare officer and one Non-governmental officer where purposively selected. The main data gathering instruments were; two researcher-made Mathematics tests, a teacher made test, a questionnaire with open-ended questions, observations and interviews. Interviews with the school guidance and counselling teacher were also conducted to establish learners’ performance, class attendance as well as homework assistance rendered to learners by their parents or guardians. An analysis of attendance trends of learners using class teachers’ registers was done. Mathematics Test were also analysed to establish the intellectual wellness of orphans. Data was analysed manually through hand coding and categorizing of ideas, which eventually formed themes to this study. The findings revealed that extended families are encountering a lot of difficulties during their involvement in caring for orphans. Difficulties included provision of physical needs, accommodation, and assistance with academic work. Moreover, the caregivers were in their seventies and too old to provide quality care. Voices of extended family heads, wished that projects like Isheanopa (The Lord provides) initiated by one school to support orphans, be extended to other schools within the city in order to alleviate the burden experienced by extended family heads.
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Exploring socio-economic challenges faced by female headed households in rural districts: The case of Manama village, Matebeleland South Province in ZimbabweNyathi, Abigail Nkazimulo 18 May 2018 (has links)
MGS / Institute of Gender and Youth Studies / In most developing countries, poverty is concentrated in female headed households especially in rural areas. Notably, these rural areas are fast becoming female spaces, as most men migrate to urban areas and neighbouring countries. The critical role of rural women in eradicating poverty through agricultural labour force, subsistence farming and rural development in sub-Saharan Africa, has been recognised by scholars yet they are the poorest and their contribution has not been fully acknowledged by the community or governments. To understand this phenomenon this study investigated the socio-economic challenges faced by female headed households, causes of high vulnerability and their coping strategies in Manama village, Matabeleland South province, Zimbabwe. This study was informed by feminist theoretical approaches of conducting research as it employed several qualitative research methods, namely key participant individual in-depth interviews; Focus group discussions; field participatory observation and documentary reviews to collect data. The findings of the study were that, due to the country’s economic situation, constrained mobility and lack of collateral security to secure credit, women have a double burden of responsibility with numerous challenges such as unequal wages in hired labourer work, inadequate food for the family, financial burdens. However they have their own coping strategies such as voluntary community networks. This study concludes by making recommendations, for gender mainstreaming in policy, agricultural extension services for Female headed households, creation of markets, counselling and psychosocial support. This research contends that although these women find themselves in a patriarchal frame they have decided to outgrow it and be autonomous as they fight the socio-economic challenges they face. They have numerous socio-economic challenges but the participants themselves are self-asserted. They are not stopped by patriarchy and are exemplary as they work hard and venture outside the domestic space to engage in honest work to take care of their households. / NRF
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Exploring family resilience in urban Shona Christian families in ZimbabweMuchesa, Oleander 02 1900 (has links)
This study addresses the factors that assist families towards family adaptation during adversities and contribute to family resilience. The study aimed to identify, describe and explore family resilience factors that enable urban Shona Christian families to withstand life crises in the midst of a society facing economic hardships and manage to bounce back from these challenges. The study also sought to reach out to families facing challenges and who are struggling to adapt and recover from their challenges. The Resiliency model of Family Stress, Adjustment and Adaptation was used as a theoretical framework for this study (McCubbin, Thompson & McCubbin, 2001).
A quantitative method was employed. A total of 106 participants including parents and adolescents from 53 families independently completed 6 questionnaires including a biographical questionnaire. The questionnaires measured family adaptation and aspects of family functioning in accordance with the Resiliency model of Family Stress, Adjustment and Adaptation. The data collected was subjected to correlation regression analysis which was computed using SPSS to identify family resilience factors that assisted families in family adaptation.
The results showed that family adaptation was fostered by first, the family’s internal strengths; affirming and less incendiary communication; passive appraisal; and control over life events and hardships. Secondly, the family’s external strengths; seeking spiritual support; social support from within the community; and mobilising the family to acquire community resources and accept help from others. These findings could be used to develop interventions that promote family resilience and establish the potential of family members within a family when facing adversities. / Psychology / M.A. (Social Science)
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Exploring family resilience in urban Shona Christian families in ZimbabweMuchesa, Oleander 02 1900 (has links)
This study addresses the factors that assist families towards family adaptation during adversities and contribute to family resilience. The study aimed to identify, describe and explore family resilience factors that enable urban Shona Christian families to withstand life crises in the midst of a society facing economic hardships and manage to bounce back from these challenges. The study also sought to reach out to families facing challenges and who are struggling to adapt and recover from their challenges. The Resiliency model of Family Stress, Adjustment and Adaptation was used as a theoretical framework for this study (McCubbin, Thompson & McCubbin, 2001).
A quantitative method was employed. A total of 106 participants including parents and adolescents from 53 families independently completed 6 questionnaires including a biographical questionnaire. The questionnaires measured family adaptation and aspects of family functioning in accordance with the Resiliency model of Family Stress, Adjustment and Adaptation. The data collected was subjected to correlation regression analysis which was computed using SPSS to identify family resilience factors that assisted families in family adaptation.
The results showed that family adaptation was fostered by first, the family’s internal strengths; affirming and less incendiary communication; passive appraisal; and control over life events and hardships. Secondly, the family’s external strengths; seeking spiritual support; social support from within the community; and mobilising the family to acquire community resources and accept help from others. These findings could be used to develop interventions that promote family resilience and establish the potential of family members within a family when facing adversities. / Psychology / M.A. (Social Science)
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White and African: the dilemma of identityHess, Shena Bridgid 25 August 2009 (has links)
This study looks at the construction of white identity within postcolonial conflict in Zimbabwe. Is it possible to be white and African? And how will the white African look when his identity as 'privileged' is stripped from his/her? This study also challenges the church to respond to the endemic violence by finding ways of bringing hope and healing. The role that trauma plays in our ongoing narratives is explored along with ways to exit these cycles without re-traumatizing large sectors of the community who are considered 'outsiders'. It ends with questioning the usefulness of 'white' and 'race', except as a political construction that benefits those in power to be able to tap into past historic pain and injustice. / Philosophy, Practical & Systematic Theology / M. Th. (Practical Theology (Pastoral Therapy))
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White and African: the dilemma of identityHess, Shena Bridgid 25 August 2009 (has links)
This study looks at the construction of white identity within postcolonial conflict in Zimbabwe. Is it possible to be white and African? And how will the white African look when his identity as 'privileged' is stripped from his/her? This study also challenges the church to respond to the endemic violence by finding ways of bringing hope and healing. The role that trauma plays in our ongoing narratives is explored along with ways to exit these cycles without re-traumatizing large sectors of the community who are considered 'outsiders'. It ends with questioning the usefulness of 'white' and 'race', except as a political construction that benefits those in power to be able to tap into past historic pain and injustice. / Philosophy, Practical and Systematic Theology / M. Th. (Practical Theology (Pastoral Therapy))
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The impact of domestic violence on family cohesion: exploring a pastoral approach in the Masvingo DioceseMuzenda, Vincent Tirivanhu Marova 03 1900 (has links)
Text in English with summaries in English, Shona and Ndebele / Bibliography: pages 228-252 / The work being reported hereunder focused on spousal conflict as a threat to family cohesion,
while exploring a pastoral approach in the Masvingo Diocese in Zimbabwe. Experience as a
pastor has shown that domestic violence is cancerous in the Masvingo Diocese and this is
proved by alarming statistics about this province. Many marriages have been irrevocably
broken down and the moral fabric that used to characterise family cohesion seems to have
evaporated into thin air. It is on that premise that the objective of the study was to suggest
practical ways that can be employed to facilitate pastoral counselling among families,
encountering spousal issues in the Masvingo Diocese. The research is anchored in Viktor
Frankl’s Logotherapy, complimented by White’s narrative therapy. The research adopts a
mixed method approach which involved closed questionnaires, focus-group discussions and
structured interviews. Some 40 respondents constituted the study sample and they were
purposively sampled. The research sample consisted of four priests in the five deaneries and
36 ordinary members of the Catholic Church. The key results were that Logotherapy and
narrative counselling are effective methods of assisting people to find new meaning in their
lives. Practical ways which pastoral counsellors can adopt go a long way in ameliorating
internal household strife. It must as well be stated that, as a recommendation, pastors have to
take an active role in addressing this malicious domestic violence. Problems of domestic
violence can be solved through pastoral care and counselling. / Iyi itsvagurudzo yezvinokonzerwa nemhirizhonga dzemudzimba pakubatana kwemhuri,
pachiongororwa nzira yekufambisa chitendero muDunhu reMasvingo. Kubva muruzivo
seMufundisi, zvinoratidza kuti mhirizhonga yemudzimba yadzika midzi muDunhu
reMasvingo uye izvi zvinotsigirwa neumbowo hunotyisa hunowanikwa mudunhu iri. Michato
mizhinji yakakaparadzika zvisingagadzirisiki uye tsika neyemuro yaimbowanikwa
pakubatana kwemhuri inenge yakanyangarika pasina anoziva kwayakaenda. Nekuda
kwezvikonzero izvi, chinangwa chetsvagurudzo ino ndechekuedza kupa nzira
dzingashandiswa pakubatsiridza pakushandisa dzidziso yechitendero kuvanhu vanowirwa
nemhirizhonga yemudzimba muDunhu reMasvingo muZimbabwe. Tsvagurudzo ino
inotsigirirwa nedzidziso yaViktor Frankl yeurapi hwelogo iyo inosimbiswa nenhoroondo
yedzidziso yaWhite. Tsvagurudzo ino inoshandisa nzira dzakasiyana-siyana dzinosanganisa
mibvunzo yakavharwa, mibvunzo yokutsvaga pfungwa dzavanhu uye hurukuro
dzomumapoka saka boka richashanda mutsvagurudzo ino rine vanhu makumi mana avo
vakasarudzwa pachinangwa ichi. Chikwata cheboka iri chinosanganisira vaPriste vana uye
vatenderi makumi matatu nevatanhatu vanobva mumaDhinari mashanu. Zvakabuda
mutsvagurudzo yedzidziso dzeurapi dzelogo nenhoroondo yedzidziso yacho inzira kwadzo
dzingabatsira kune vakawanana kuti vawane mafungiro nemaonero matsva ehupenyu uye
nzira chaidzo dzingashandiswa nevadzidzisi vechitendero idzo dzinogona kugadzirisa pakuru
dambudziko remhirizhonga mudzimba. Zvinodawo kucherechedza uye sekurudziro
nemazano kuVafundisi kuti vanofanira kutora matanho akasimba pakugadzirisa chirwere ichi
chemhirizhonga mudzimba agogona kugariswa kuburikidza nebasa revadzidzisi nechitendero
nerairo yavo. / Isufundo lesi sikhangela ukuphambaniseka okwenzakalayo ekubambaneni kwemuli
yikuhlukumezana emakhaya sikhangele umbono webandla le Masvingo Diocese.
Okuhlanganwe lakho njengo Mufundisi kubonise ukuthi emakhaya kuyamemetheka
ukuhlukuzemana eMasvingo Diocese njalo kuvenzwa yibalo ezesabekayo
kulendawo.Inutshando eminengi idhilikile njalo Ubuntu lokuziphatha okwakutholakala
ekubambeneni kwemuli sokuuqukile kwaphephetwa ngumoya. Yikho injongo yesifundo
iyikubonisa undlela ezesebenzayo ezingasetshenziswa ukubonisa lokusiza
abahlukumenzwayo emakhaya endaweni yeMasvingo Diocese e Zimbabwe. Ukulonda
kubotswe kuViktor Frankl ekhangela ukwelatshwa ngemifanekiso (Logotherapy) kauye
incedisana le white’s narrative therapy. Umkhondo uthatha imibono etshiyeneyo
ehlanganisela imibuzo evalekileyo, ingxoxo ezihleliweyo lengxoxo phakathi kwamaqembu
njalo kwakhetwa isampula elabaphenduli abalitshumi lane abakethwa
ngokucophelela.Isampula ihlanganisa abafundisi abane kanye labebandla abangu 36
emadeanery amahlanu eMasvingo.Impumela eyinhloko yikuthi ukwelatshwa kwe logo kanye
lokwelatshwa okulandayo zindela eziphumelelayo ezingancedisa ababili emendweni ukuthola
likuzwisisa empilweni njalo ukuhamba phambili ekuthuthukiseni ukwenangaba
ukuhlukumezana emakhaya ngembono ku bokholo. Kumele kugaphelwe ukuthi
njengabafundisi abaqotho kufanele bathathe indima ekusebenzelaneni lalokhu
kuhlukumezana emakhaya. Inkinga yokuhlukuluzana emakhaya ingaqoniswa ngokunakekela
komfundisi lokukhulumisana. / Practical Theology / D. Phil. (Practical Theology)
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The mission of the church as family: implementing the ecclesiology of the African Synod (1994) in the Catholic Diocese of MasvingoBasera, Michael 02 1900 (has links)
Bibliography: leaves 221-244 / The purpose of this thesis is to examine the mission of the ‘Church as family’ and to explore
its implications in terms of levels of inclusion and participation of church members in the
Catholic Diocese of Masvingo. The background of the study is the 1994 African Synod that
suggests the ecclesiology of the mission of the ‘Church as family.’ The study helps the
Catholic Diocese of Masvingo to evaluate the implementation of the ideal of the mission of
the ‘Church as family’ and draw implications for nuclear, single parent, child-headed,
reconstituted and extended families within the church. The study explores Shorter’s culture
model to examine how cultural practices, symbols, values and belief systems can be used as
an analytic framework for the human dimension of the church. A qualitative research
methodology that involves 36 participants in semi-structured interviews, three focus group
discussions in urban, semi-urban and rural parishes and participant observation was used to
collect data from parishioners, priests and religious of the Catholic Diocese of Masvingo. The
study reveals that each family type contributes to Evangelisation as proclamation of the Good
News and inculturation differently thereby enriching the ideal of the mission of the ‘Church
as family.’ Furthermore, the study shows that guilds, associations and commissions help to
strengthen families through spiritual, psychological, social and economic support. Findings
also indicate that the Trinity is the theological foundation of the family and it finds
acceptance in African communal setup. Family types in Masvingo Diocese are analysed
using the notion of the Trinity to show that dignity, equality and respect among family types
can be used to strengthen the ideal of the mission of the ‘Church as family.’ At pastoral level,
economic, social and cultural obstacles to family ministry stand as a challenge to the full
implementation and realisation of the ideal of the mission of the ‘Church as family’. In the
light of the research, recommendations for mission strategies were suggested at different
levels that involve Diocesan administration, priests, religious, catechists and parish leaders.
Recommendations for further researches were also suggested for areas that seem to be
important yet outside the scope of this study. The theological, pastoral, and cultural issues
raised in this study combine to help the Catholic Diocese of Masvingo to become an
authentic expression of the mission of the ‘Church as family’ of God. / Christian Spirituality, Church History and Missiology / D. Th. (Missiology)
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