Samuel Augustus Barnett was the founder of Toynbee Hall, (1984) the first settlement house, in which wealthy Oxford students "settled" in an attempt to improve living conditions in the slums of Whitechapel.
The basic idea was to bring the educated in contact with the poor for their mutual benefit.
mere distribution of charity does not solve problems. In order to better understand the situation of poverty and underdevelopment, one needed to live with the poor and listen to their problems.
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