Heather Saville
Autore di Friends in deed : 50 years of Quaker Service Australia
Opere di Heather Saville
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The size of the commitment of Quaker Service Australia (QSA) volunteers has often led to a mistaken notion of the size of the organization. In Cambodia, where QSA has supported various projects for more than twenty years, Saville writes that many Cambodians believe "QSA is a big and wealthy organization," not a corps of dedicated volunteers supported by a paid staff of two, housed in a tiny office in Sydney.
The back-cover blurb promises that the text captures "the struggles of people who live their beliefs, and the evolution of development thinking over half a century." And indeed it does. Saville has gone beyond the personalities and statistics, revealing the considerable thought that preceded every project-funding decision and how, at the grassroots level, a series of small succsses can cascade into meaningful change within communities.… (altro)