A PROCESS EVALUATION OF A PROGRAMME FOR STREET PEOPLE

Authors

  • Kevin O’Donoghue Section of Organisational Psychology, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa.
  • Joha Louw-Potgieter Section of Organisational Psychology, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15270/49-4-43

Abstract

The plight of the homeless in South Africa has been graphically described by Cross and Seager (2010a:18) as “the proverbial skeletons at the feast, the excluded poorest who enter unobserved and stand by gaunt and starved, terrifying to the invited guests but deprived of any capacity to join the party.”

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Published

2014-05-23

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O’Donoghue, K., & Louw-Potgieter, J. (2014). A PROCESS EVALUATION OF A PROGRAMME FOR STREET PEOPLE. Social Work/Maatskaplike Werk, 49(4). https://doi.org/10.15270/49-4-43

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Vol. 49 No. 4 (2013)

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