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Caring in crisis: The experiences of local religious leaders meeting community food needs in the Philippines during the COVID-19 pandemic

To respond to the unintended consequences of prevention measures to reduce COVID-19 transmission, individuals and groups, including religious leaders, have collaborated to provide care to those negatively impacted by these measures. Amid these various efforts and interventions, there is a need to de...

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Autores principales: Speers, Shoshannah Joanna, Lau, Lincoln Leehang, Neufeld, Hannah Tait, Servano, Danilo, Go, Daryn Joy, Kipp, Amy, Brubacher, Laura Jane, Dodd, Warren
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Published by Elsevier Ltd. 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10278461/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37360611
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.wss.2023.100154
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author Speers, Shoshannah Joanna
Lau, Lincoln Leehang
Neufeld, Hannah Tait
Servano, Danilo
Go, Daryn Joy
Kipp, Amy
Brubacher, Laura Jane
Dodd, Warren
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description To respond to the unintended consequences of prevention measures to reduce COVID-19 transmission, individuals and groups, including religious leaders, have collaborated to provide care to those negatively impacted by these measures. Amid these various efforts and interventions, there is a need to deepen our understanding of diverse expressions of care across various geographical and social contexts. To address this need, the objective of this study was to investigate how religious leaders in the Philippines practiced care for their communities by meeting emergency food needs amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Guided by an ethics of care theoretical orientation, we conducted 25 remote semi-structured interviews with Filipino religious leaders who partnered with a Philippines-based non-governmental organization (NGO) to mobilize essential food aid to their local communities. Through defining the efforts and activities of these religious leaders as care work, we found that religious leader experiences revolved around navigating care responsibilities, caring alongside others, and engaging holistically with the care work. Additionally, we observed how contextual factors such as the humanitarian settings where religious leaders worked, the partnership with an NGO, and the positionality of local religious leaders within their communities, fundamentally shaped the care work. This study expands our understanding of how care is practiced and experienced and also brings greater visibility to the experiences and efforts of local religious leaders in responding to humanitarian emergencies.
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spelling pubmed-102784612023-06-21 Caring in crisis: The experiences of local religious leaders meeting community food needs in the Philippines during the COVID-19 pandemic Speers, Shoshannah Joanna Lau, Lincoln Leehang Neufeld, Hannah Tait Servano, Danilo Go, Daryn Joy Kipp, Amy Brubacher, Laura Jane Dodd, Warren Wellbeing Space Soc Article To respond to the unintended consequences of prevention measures to reduce COVID-19 transmission, individuals and groups, including religious leaders, have collaborated to provide care to those negatively impacted by these measures. Amid these various efforts and interventions, there is a need to deepen our understanding of diverse expressions of care across various geographical and social contexts. To address this need, the objective of this study was to investigate how religious leaders in the Philippines practiced care for their communities by meeting emergency food needs amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Guided by an ethics of care theoretical orientation, we conducted 25 remote semi-structured interviews with Filipino religious leaders who partnered with a Philippines-based non-governmental organization (NGO) to mobilize essential food aid to their local communities. Through defining the efforts and activities of these religious leaders as care work, we found that religious leader experiences revolved around navigating care responsibilities, caring alongside others, and engaging holistically with the care work. Additionally, we observed how contextual factors such as the humanitarian settings where religious leaders worked, the partnership with an NGO, and the positionality of local religious leaders within their communities, fundamentally shaped the care work. This study expands our understanding of how care is practiced and experienced and also brings greater visibility to the experiences and efforts of local religious leaders in responding to humanitarian emergencies. Published by Elsevier Ltd. 2023-12 2023-06-14 /pmc/articles/PMC10278461/ /pubmed/37360611 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.wss.2023.100154 Text en © 2023 Published by Elsevier Ltd. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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