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This report discusses the beginnings of social welfare concepts. It describes the "Common Chest" system from 1520 where local authorities and church wardens collected and distributed food, money, and clothing to assist the needy. It also discusses the 16th century idea of individualization where each poor person's situation deserved attention. The report further explains the "Hamburg Experiment" of 1788 where a district system investigated individual families' needs and provided relief through training, employment, and rehabilitation programs for children and orphans.

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This report discusses the beginnings of social welfare concepts. It describes the "Common Chest" system from 1520 where local authorities and church wardens collected and distributed food, money, and clothing to assist the needy. It also discusses the 16th century idea of individualization where each poor person's situation deserved attention. The report further explains the "Hamburg Experiment" of 1788 where a district system investigated individual families' needs and provided relief through training, employment, and rehabilitation programs for children and orphans.

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Report

(Social Welfare Policy & Program)

Submitted by:
Shanne A. De Leon

Submitted to:
Sis. Grace Baluyot
Beginning Concepts of Social Welfare

 A Common chest (1520)


The prototype of the modern day community chest.
Martin Luther conceived that there should be a
“common chest” for the receipt of food, money and
clothing to assist the needy. The responsibility for the
collection of funds and the distribution of relief to the
destitute, the sick and orphans was assumed by local
authorities, but the church wardens played the leading
role in relief administration.

 Individualization
During the 16th century the Spanish philosopher Juan
Luis de Vives advanced the idea that the fate of the
individual poor deserved attention. There should be
investigation of the social condition of every pauper
family. He recommended that aid be provided through
vocational training, employment and rehabilitation
instead of the customary distribution of alms.

 Hamburg Experiment (1788)


Professor Busch, Commissioner for Public Relief
introduceda district system of investigation and
distribution of relief to individual paupers through
volunteer committees. The poor were interviewed and
the individual needs of each family were determined.
Children and youth were trained in elementary courses
and an industrial school was attached to the central
orphans asylum.

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