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Social and Community Development Practice makes a persuasive case for employing a social development approach to community development practice at local and village levels. Towards this end, the book offers a conceptual clarity of social and community development (SCD) by adding new dimensions. It also shows the significance of social policy education for social and community development workers and the need for expanding community development practice from local levels to international levels. The author argues that the social work profession itself needs to quickly reorganize and strengthen

This article and editorial aims to point out 193 governments' unrealised pledge to eradicate extreme poverty and end hunger by 2030. The latest progress report shows that overall progress against the sustainable development goals 1 and 2 is not on track. It calls for renewed commitment by governments to allocate adequate resources and take practical steps to end poverty and hunger by engaging people at local levels at a global scale. It also introduces the special issue to critically analyse connections and disconnections among poverty, policy and the poor with a hope to engender further thought, research and action to end poverty and hunger.

This article aims to reflect on culminating crises by analysing the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, natural disasters, wars and conflicts and political-economy and discuss how these crises have affected sustainable development efforts with a view to suggesting some strategies. Drawing mainly from the secondary data and the author's reflections, each of the four crises is analysed in terms of its negative and positive consequences. Then how these crises have affected sustainable development efforts, particularly the achievement of the sustainable development goals, is discussed. In the final section, seven strategies are suggested to culminate these crises.

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The article is a personal story about my grandmother and how she experienced care in her old age. By sharing my grandmother's life story about caring and reflecting on it, I inductively develop a thesis on caring and argue that caring is an asymmetrical phenomenon, and we can do better. The discussion includes the role of caring in social work practice and how to inculcate a focus on caring among workers so that they may contribute to creating caring communities. First, it exposes the complex phenomenon of dispossession at both personal and political levels and its implications for caring for elderly people. Secondly, it suggests the need for basic technology transfer. Thirdly, it points out the significance of emotional and material care and commitment to caring and challenges to sustaining it, and the need for innovations to enhance human caring. Fourthly, it emphasises the best interests of elderly people when choosing the place and space for caring arrangements. Finally, to creating caring communities, it suggests implications for integrating reason and emotion, and altering the professional values-base and policies. Social workers and similar professionals can contribute to caring communities to meet the challenging needs of growing ageing populations in the world.