Surviving on the margins

Volunteers’ agency to survive poverty and vulnerability in Zimbabwe

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ID9972227
AuthorsItai Kabonga (0000-0001-6533-996X, Zimbabwe Ezekiel Guti University (ZEGU), Zimbabwe, corresponding author), Kwashirai Zvokuomba (0000-0002-8152-9621, University of Johannesburg)
Year2021
Volume66
Issue4
Pages1135-1141
Publication date2021-09-29
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueInternational Social Work (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0020-8728 • E-ISSN: 1461-7234
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/00208728211045423
OpenAlexW3203734757
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited7

This ethnographic study, as part of a broader study of volunteerism and social development in the Chegutu district, Zimbabwe, explores the agency of volunteers to survive in a context of socio-economic challenges. Volunteers in Zimbabwe are operating in a context characterised by socio-economic challenges. They are living on the margins. The situation is exacerbated by non-governmental organisations’ non-payment of stipends or the inadequacy of the stipends that are eventually paid. Using their agency, volunteers are involved in Internal Savings and Lending Schemes, group-based income-generating activities, multiple affiliations, grocery initiatives, accumulation of social capital, and building networks and relationships to survive

Agency (philosophy · Business · Context (archaeology · Economic growth · Economics · Ethnography · Geography · Payment · Poverty · Social capital · Social science · Socioeconomics · Sociology · Vulnerability (computing · Finance · Nonprofit Sector and Volunteering · Religion, Society, and Development · Tourism, Volunteerism, and Development

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