Leadership For A Better World Chapter 1 Summary

Reflection 1
Social change and charity have two different effects on the community in chapter one of Leadership for a Better World by Susan R. Komives. Chapter one discusses the differentiation in the ideas when one is more practical in a culture. Social change is defined as affecting the root of the social problem (Komives 11). An example of social change is the Civil Rights Movement, where Martin Luther King Jr. led groups of people to end segregation. King wasn’t just trying to help the problem of having sit in the back of the bus or drinking from different water fountains, his objective was to generate an equal society where racial segregation didn’t exist. Charity classification as donating food, money, and other kinds of goods is given to a community. An illustration of this is the local soup kitchen, where they provide food for the

homeless. Giving the homeless people food takes care of the immediate problem but doesn’t solve the long term of them living in the streets; the homeless will need to gain the ability to obtain a job to solve the issue. The saying “Give a man a fish he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime,” (14) rings true with charity and social change. Giving the man the fish is charity where as teaching the man to fish is a small scale of social change.
Social change and charity have pro’s and con’s when being applied to society.

Charity is an excellent way for peoples immediate needs to be met. There is a disadvantage to this there is only so much money and resources to be given to the cause. For example, when resources were being sent to help the disaster in Haiti, there was attention drawn to the problem sent money and resources were sent to help but it only fixed a small problem not the overall problem of underprivileged country. Social change can help fix major problems in the world. To make an immense change takes a lot of effort and resources but can be done. Sometimes the people who are trying to change the social issue don’t completely understand the people they are trying to help. For instance, PETA was going to low-income communities and were offering to pay for the water and heating bills in exchange for making them to covert to vegan, but being a vegan is an expensive lifestyle. Trying to help low-income individuals by forcing them to conform to PETA’s belief system isn’t social change in the eyes of the individuals but PETA believes they are helping

others.
Having the difference between social change and charity, they can work side by side to create a better community. Charity takes care of the needs of the people now. These requirements need to be met to keep society smooth in everyday function. While charity is being provided a social change can be worked on. Resembling the refugees from Siberia and one lady is helping them by giving food, water, and help to move to another country, this being the first step or charity. With so many people moving over the boarders countries have started to close them since they can’t take any more people. The world is trying to find a place for all of these people. The United States has increased the amount of refugees allowed into the country but wasn’t enough so has increased it to 100,000 by 2017. This is the next step is the social change countries are coming together to figure out where the distribution of people.