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Resource Type: Articles
[Community development] by John Mark Bowers Discussing stigma with others can be a first step to overcoming prejudices. Here we provide a suggested outline for a group discussion.
Resource Type: Bible studies
What do we really know? by Rev Michael Beasley Read Luke 8:42a-48. As human beings, we often know less about others than we think we do. Consider the story of the woman with the haemorrhage. What do the following people know about the situation described, and what don’t they know?
Resource Type: Articles
[Community development] by Joe Campbell.Prejudice between different groups is the beginning of what can grow into serious division, conflict and often violence. Both sides feel misunderstood and shut out by the other. Each feels more comfortable among ‘their own people’. This is fertile ground for those who have extreme views on both sides to spread rumour and create fear.
Resource Type: Articles
[Counselling] by Gladys K Mwiti and Al Dueck Mental illness is an affliction that must be faced directly rather than denied, and responded to compassionately rather than with punishment. People with mental illnesses have often been dismissed as ‘crazy’. Condemnation would view people with mental illness as hopeless. Compassion is the opposite of condemnation. A compassionate person communicates sympathy, empathy, concern, kindness, consideration and care.
Resource Type: Articles
[Peace-building] Philbert Kalisa grew up in exile in Burundi before training as a church leader. Since the time of the genocide, when many people were killed in a conflict between two tribes, the Hutu and Tutsi, he had a vision of bringing reconciliation in his parents’ country – Rwanda.
Resource Type: Articles
[Community development] by Gracia Violeta Ross Quiroga As the daughter of an evangelical pastor in Bolivia, disclosing my HIV status presented the risk of facing blame, guilt and condemnation.
Resource Type: Articles
[Advocacy] In some places, stigma and discrimination are made worse through official practices that deny people their rights or exclude them from society. Here, an organisation in Kyrgyzstan that runs a rehabilitation centre for male ex prisoners shares how it is helping them to reintegrate into society.
Resource Type: Articles
by Justin Power. SERVE Afghanistan has been working with stigmatised groups of Afghans for many years. As is common throughout the world, Afghan society has false ideas about people with disabilities. To address this stigma, SERVE provides accurate information and demonstrates that society’s ideas need to change.
Resource Type: Articles
[Health] By Helen Gaw Obstetric fistula is a hole in the birth canal that develops as a result of long or obstructed labour. Women who have a fistula cannot control the flow of urine and suffer continual leaking, which can cause a bad smell. Usually their babies have not survived labour. They are often excluded from family and community and develop other health problems.
Resource Type: Magazine
Tackling stigma through dialogue and building relationships
