Monday, February 23, 2009
Advocacy Social Change in AVODAH
Advocacy is a search of influences that effects people lives in a good way. In the book Compose Advocate Design written by Anne Frances Wysocki and Dennis A. Lynch have a section in chapter five mentions different types of advocacy. There is a website called AVODAH and organization by twenty selected Jews for a year supporting low income Jewish people to improve their communities. Participants join with them in poverty and provide assistance and social change which gives an example of advocacy. This website gave information of the organization the word AVODAH in Hebrew means “service” that is what the organization was determined to do for many of the Jewish people. In this website there is a relationship with the community and participants being Jews I will definitely believe is shapes advocacy being a much stronger result. Many other relations like religion and believes encourage people to work harder and it brings a better outcome like AVODAH organization. It brings a positive effect on Jewish people and they know selecting their own affiliation will have a better effect. It even changes the participant’s lives that make this organization stronger to advocate by reading participants’ respond and outcome of AVODAH. Finding an organization with same believes participants and many similar relationships it attracts others like in this website for Jews to consider applying and working in this organization to help their own people. Advocacy for many of the alumni’s who participated in AVODAH mentioned how this organization’s mission absolutely shows the commitment, “radically transforming our world into a more just and righteous place” (Goodman, 119). Relations does bring a stronger advocacy because everyone will like to feel connected and sharing beliefs, religion with people whom they are trying to help out in the world bringing a stronger connection for the organization to grow and change communities.
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AVODAH is a great organization. The people who participate, either as AVODAH service workers or those who benefit from the work, are lucky to be involved with an organization that tries to imporve their communities. I could see myself doing something like this. I am not Jewish, but many other religious and secular organizations have similar projects. I bet it is very rewarding.
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