Hear the Children Laughing is a dance of diverse stories. Tales from the ‘helped’ and the ‘helpers’ are woven to give a larger and more human picture of what ordinary folk have been doing to counter discrimination. The stories come from many corners of the world – a Sudanese refugee camp, tribal Indian projects, an Ethiopian military hospital, Cambodian minefields, Mexican mountain villages and slums, Australian First Nation communities and a nursing home. Based on the experience of the author as a physiotherapist and aid worker, the stories weave a poignant tapestry.
Table of Content
- Home…
- Is this home
- Mexico
- What has happened to Ajoya?
- Coneja
- Projimo
- Una grande tortilla
- One out of seven
- The chair
- Ishmael
- Angel
- Going up? Going down?
- Australia
- The howling
- Calling country
- The teaching
- In the listening
- Sudan
- Whistling in Sudan
- The prize
- Cambodia
- Burnout
- A peacock’s dance
- Thailand
- The old Jesuit
- Unfinished
- Fried habitually drunk
- No man’s land
- Brown paper packages tied up with string
- I loved red
- Epilogue
About the author
Liz Hobbs was born in Australia in 1941. She has always taken a keen interest in the lives of marginalised people, and as a consequence worked with village people around the world, both as an aid worker and as a physiotherapist. Her writing is grounded in Buddhist philosophy and her passion for the natural world.
More ebooks from the same author(s) / Editor
22,409 Ebooks in this category
