Thesis (M Social Work (Social Work))--University of Stellenbosch, 2007. / The welfare of communities depends to a large extent on the successful mobilisation of the voluntary
contributions (manpower, time, money) by religious based organisations. Poverty and all the other social
problems like unemployment and HIV/AIDS, that are associated with it, can only be addressed
effectively if volunteers are empowered by social workers to handle the problems in a sustaining way
(Annual report, Unit for Religion Development Research: 2002). In order to empower the volunteers, it is
important that social workers understand their role in the empowerment process.
The aim of the study is to clarify the task of the social worker regarding the empowerment of volunteers
at religious based organisations. This study is a descriptive study, seeing that the empowerment of
volunteers are described at the end of the research (Mouton, 2001:54). The study also contains elements
of an exploring (investigation) study, seeing that the situation has been explored in practice.
After completion of a literate study, an empirical investigation was done with the aim to investigate
principles of empowerment in practice. For the purpose of this study, the universe is regarded as the
social workers who work at religious based organisations in the working area of the Valcare Trust.
Deliberate selection, according to the non-probability test sampling as described by Babbie and Mouton
(2001:166-168) was used to obtain the test sample. The type of test sample selection is applicable where
the researcher is conversant with the research problem and the universe (Rubin and Babbie, 1993).
Deliberate selection is therefore based on the researcher’s judgement and the aim of the study (Rubin and
Babbie, 1993). The researcher is well conversant with the universe, seeing that the social workers are
working at religious based organisations that are registered on the database of the Valcare Trust.
Questionnaires, consisting of structured questions were compiled after completion of the literate study for
the purpose of the empirical study. The self administered questionnaires were supplied to the
respondents. Thirteen respondents took part in the empirical study.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:netd.ac.za/oai:union.ndltd.org:sun/oai:scholar.sun.ac.za:10019.1/2501 |
| Date | 03 1900 |
| Creators | Van der Lingen, Jolanda |
| Contributors | Green, Sulina, University of Stellenbosch. Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. Dept. of Social Work. |
| Publisher | Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch |
| Source Sets | South African National ETD Portal |
| Language | Afrikaans |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis |
| Format | 987610 bytes, application/pdf |
| Rights | University of Stellenbosch |
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