A Year of Living Generously follows award-winning journalist
Lawrence Scanlan as he volunteers with 12 different charities, among them well-known institutions Habitat for Humanity, the St. Vincent de Paul Society and Canadian Crossroads.
Drawing from first-hand experiences – serving in a soup kitchen in Ontario, building houses in post-Katrina New Orleans and teaching at a women’s radio station in Senegal —
Scanlan tests the ideas and theories on global aid and philanthropy and makes a compelling case for greater commitment and real connection from us all. The result is an engaging yet informative primer for today’s volunteers, young and old, who are looking to make a meaningful contribution.
Inhoudsopgave
1. January: Life at Vinnie’s
The St Vincent de Paul Society-Loretta Hospitality Centre (a soup kitchen) in Kingston, Ont
2. February: Mean Streets
With street nurse Cathy Crowe and the Toronto Disaster Relief Committee confronting homelessness in Toronto
3. March: Amazing Grace
Hospice Palliative Care’s drop-in centre for people in Kingston with terminal illness
4. April: The Welcome Mat
Aiding new immigrants at ISKA (Immigrant Services Kingston & Area)
5. May: Place of Hope
With Horizons of Friendship and AIDS/HIV victims in Costa Rica
6. June: Time Inside
Working with inmates and the John Howard Society, Kingston
7. July: Off to Summer Camp
Helping challenged and able-bodied kids learn to ride a horse at the Dare to Dream therapeutic riding stable, Deseronto, Ont
8. August: Lake Ontario Waterkeepers
9. September: Dusty Makes Her Rounds
Dog therapy with the severely learning-disabled at Ongwanada, Kingston Ont
10. October: Sweat Equity
With Habitat for Humanity on rebuilding projects in the hurricane-ravaged parishes of New Orleans
11. November: English Class on the Rez
At the First Nations Technical Institute near Deseronto, Ontario
12. December: 89.4 on the FM Dial
Teaching journalism at Manooré FM, a community radio station in Senegal for Canadian Crossroads International
Epilogue
Over de auteur
Lawrence Scanlan is an award-winning journalistand author or co-author of thirteen non-fiction books, including the worldwide bestseller
The Man Who Listens to Horses. He has been involved in fund-raising for Central American poor, community schools, literacy projects and other charities for some three decades.
Scanlan lives in Kingston, Ont.
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