Settlement movement

Settlement Movement is the name for a social reform strategy that their starting point with the 1884 opened Toynbee Hall in London had. The settlement movement is considered historical basis for community work.

Members educated bourgeois classes settled in the slums of the proletariat and offered neighborly contacts and opportunities for further education. Thus, the self-help potential of those affected should be strengthened, which stood in contrast to the hitherto practiced assistance in the form of almsgiving.

Pioneers of the settlement movement were Samuel Augustus Barnett, his wife Henrietta and Jane Addams ( cf. Hull House ).

1926, the first international conference of the movement took place in 1926 an international organization was founded, which still exists today under the name The International Federation of Settlements and Neighbourhood Centres.