SOCIAL WORK IN URBAN AREAS, WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO FAMILY LIFE1

The dimension of the slums is presumed as something that is deteriorating urban areas that is densely populated and contains dilapidated housing, often in multiple occupations, poverty, social disadvantage and other forms of physical and social deprivation. Sprawl is a universal occurrence knowledgeable by inexpensively highly developed fine mounting nations. Hurried sprawl appropriate to “pull factor” or the livelihood occasion fashioned in the city and “push factor” owed to the be deficient in of the equivalent in rustic regions and together with ecological dilapidation, has fascinated settlers not barely as of the rustic state but in addition commencing supplementary fractions of the state. Expansion of mechanization roughly in capital of Tamil Nadu, in deprivation condition in the rustic locale, too little drizzle in the rustic part, castism, hastily and enormous edifice creation doings and approximately the city and in sequence expertise commons, has specified surety for accomplished, inexperienced, semi-skilled employments are existing to the justified citizens. In the present study main aims are income and expenditure activities of the Porur slum areas in Chennai city

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Voluntarism To Social Work And Social Services In Bangladesh

Pakistan Journal of Applied Social Sciences ◽

10.46568/pjass.v1i1.278 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 1 (1) ◽

pp. 33-43

Author(s):

Profulla C. Sarker

Keyword(s):

Social Work ◽

Social Services ◽

Child Labor ◽

Urban Areas ◽

Family System ◽

Bank Erosion ◽

Voluntary Action ◽

River Bank ◽

River Bank Erosion ◽

The People

Natural disasters like floods, droughts, cyclones, storms, burning of houses and river bank erosion along with famine and poverty are the frequent causes of damage to crops, lives and property. Every year millions of people directly and indirectly become the victims of these natural calamities. Many of them are displaced by river bank erosion, and migrate to urban areas in search of employment. Many children are involved in child labor; the young girls are victims of trafficking for prostitution, and many of them are victims of violence while working as domestic maid servants. Many of the elderly people become beggars to survive due to the decline of joint family system. Many of the children do not get a chance to go to school. Many of the people have no ability for treatment due to financial constraints. Often the parents are not able to arrange marriage for their young daughters because of high demand of dowry. In many times to solve these problems, voluntary services play vital role in different perspectives. Voluntarism is a process of voluntary action to serve the people in distress situations. The main focus of this paper is to examine to what extent the social work and social services are rooted in voluntarism by individual, community and organizational initiatives in Bangladesh.

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An exploration of the educational work done in the social work field, with special reference to the family life education programme

10.5353/th_b3124719 ◽

1982 ◽

Author(s):

Woon-yung Leung

Keyword(s):

Social Work ◽

Special Reference ◽

Family Life ◽

Education Programme ◽

Family Life Education ◽

Educational Work ◽

The Social ◽

The Family ◽

Life Education ◽

Work Done

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Urban landslides in the vicinity of Vancouver, British Columbia, with special reference to the December 1979 rainstorm

Canadian Geotechnical Journal ◽

10.1139/t81-025 ◽

1981 ◽

Vol 18 (2) ◽

pp. 205-216 ◽

Cited By ~ 9

Author(s):

G. H. Eisbacher ◽

J. J. Clague

Keyword(s):

British Columbia ◽

Special Reference ◽

Urban Areas ◽

Debris Flows ◽

Unconsolidated Sediments ◽

Runoff Water ◽

Protective Measures ◽

Local Newspapers ◽

Debris Avalanches ◽

Autumn And Winter

Historical landslides in the urbanized Vancouver region, southwestern British Columbia, have almost commonly occurred along escarpments within and at the margins of gently rolling upland surfaces underlain by Pleistocene unconsolidated sediments. The most common and most destructive landslides are debris avalanches and debris flows. They are triggered by intense autumn and winter rainstorms, when water infiltrates and saturates the surficial layer of weathered colluvium. After failure the veneer of debris gains momentum and picks up additional soil and uprooted vegetation. Debris avalanches may temporarily block gullies swollen with runoff water, thus changing into rapidly moving debris flows.A severe rainstorm in December 1979 was accompanied by destructive debris avalanches and debris flows in urban areas in the vicinity of Vancouver. A search of local newspapers and meteorological records back to 1900 indicates that this event was not unique, for at least 26 other comparable storms have triggered landslides in the Vancouver region during this century. Thus it is likely that landslides similar to those of December 1979 will occur repeatedly in the future. The danger of such landslides to life and property will grow if potentially hazardous sites are urbanized without appropriate protective measures.

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