Need an argumentative essay on Social work/Critically discuss how community development (i.e. community work and community action) and group work have been used to seek improvements in the social situation of a specific social groups/community. Needs to be 12 pages. Please no plagiarism.

National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, United Cerebral Palsy and U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDCP) are some of the organizations that provide support to people suffering from cerebral palsy. I had the opportunity to work with a volunteer organization that provides support to people with cerebral palsy. The organization was based in Borough of Havering and funded by the Local Authority. The organization provided services and support to people suffering with the condition to enable them cope with the problem. This essay focuses on community work and, how it relates to older people. The essay also analyzes how the concerned group has benefited from the activities of the group.

According to Alan Twelvetrees (2008), a community is a social element bigger than a family that shares common values and has social solidarity. The study also describes a community as a group of individuals working together to achieve a common goal. Therefore, a community has no geographical limitations, since individuals who share common interests form it. However, geographical factors usually influence formation of a community. For example, individuals suffering from a particular impairment such as, adults with physical disability may come from nearby surroundings. Community members struggling with the same condition nurture a form of attraction or affection that unites them. Community work enables individuals to do things by themselves, which benefit them and the community. Assisting communities to help themselves necessitates paid and non-paid workers. Such workers are employed or work under different community organization as workers or volunteers. Community workers can also be categorized as Social Workers, Education officers, medical workers and church leaders. The main objective of community work is to ensure that people get better deals through shared action, skills development and building of self-esteem

2. Read the contrasting quote below, and identify the crucial difference between Chile’s experience and that of Brazil and Peru. (To “privatize” infrastructure means that the government sells to private investors companies that had previously been owned and operated by the government.)

“According to the World Bank, 58 million Latin Americans lack access to potable water and 137 million lack sewerage. In Brazil and Peru, less than a quarter of the main highways are classified as good. In surveys by the bank, 55 percent of businessmen consulted in Latin America cite infrastructure as a serious problem compared with just 18 percent in East Asia. The bank says the region will have to double or triple its current spending to bring its infrastructure up to the level of that in East Asia’s fast-growing economies. The exception, as so often, is Chile. Its military dictatorship began to privatize infrastructure in 1985, starting with telecoms and electricity. Democratic governments have since gone further. Now the roads that whisk the traveler into Santiago, the capital, from the airport are privately run, as are most other motorways and the airport itself. Nearly all Chile’s water is supplied by private companies. In Santiago treatment of sewage has increased from 3 percent in 1999 to 70 percent today, says Alfredo Noman, chairman of Aguas Andinas, the capital’s Spanish-controlled water company. Only the most remote households in Chile lack running water or electricity.”