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Angel of the Garbage Dump
How Hanley Denning Changed the World, One Child at a Time
Taschenbuch von Jacob Wheeler
Sprache: Englisch

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Maine-native Hanley Denning saw poverty and desperation in its ugliest form, and refused to turn a blind eye. A former track star at Bowdoin College, Denning was struck by what she saw at the Guatemalan City dump: garbage pickers competing with vultures for the food dumped by trucks, toddlers playing amidst rats. The experience prompted her to, as Mother Teresa said, "find her own Calcutta." Hanley called her family in New England and asked them to sell everything she owned and wire her the money. Then, she launched an educational reinforcement nonprofit called Safe Passage, or "Camino Seguro," and helped pull thousands of children out of one of the largest urban landfills in the Americas. Denning was killed in a car accident outside the Guatemalan capital in 2007, but Safe Passage continues to change countless lives today.
Maine-native Hanley Denning saw poverty and desperation in its ugliest form, and refused to turn a blind eye. A former track star at Bowdoin College, Denning was struck by what she saw at the Guatemalan City dump: garbage pickers competing with vultures for the food dumped by trucks, toddlers playing amidst rats. The experience prompted her to, as Mother Teresa said, "find her own Calcutta." Hanley called her family in New England and asked them to sell everything she owned and wire her the money. Then, she launched an educational reinforcement nonprofit called Safe Passage, or "Camino Seguro," and helped pull thousands of children out of one of the largest urban landfills in the Americas. Denning was killed in a car accident outside the Guatemalan capital in 2007, but Safe Passage continues to change countless lives today.
Über den Autor
Author Jacob Wheeler fell in love with the Central American nation while studying Spanish in Quetzaltenango in the Guatemalan highlands. His first book, Between Light and Shadow (University of Nebraska Press, 2011) covered Guatemala's child adoption industry. Wheeler's reporting has won awards from Project Censored and the Michigan Press Association. A native of Denmark, he has filed stories from five continents, and his work has appeared in such publications as The Rotarian, Teaching Tolerance, Utne Reader, In These Times, the Christian Science Monitor, Detroit Free Press, and San Francisco Chronicle.
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Erscheinungsjahr: 2022
Genre: Soziologie
Rubrik: Wissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9781958363164
ISBN-10: 1958363162
Sprache: Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage: Paperback
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Wheeler, Jacob
Hersteller: Mission Point Press
Maße: 229 x 152 x 24 mm
Von/Mit: Jacob Wheeler
Erscheinungsdatum: 04.10.2022
Gewicht: 0,631 kg
Artikel-ID: 124040303
Über den Autor
Author Jacob Wheeler fell in love with the Central American nation while studying Spanish in Quetzaltenango in the Guatemalan highlands. His first book, Between Light and Shadow (University of Nebraska Press, 2011) covered Guatemala's child adoption industry. Wheeler's reporting has won awards from Project Censored and the Michigan Press Association. A native of Denmark, he has filed stories from five continents, and his work has appeared in such publications as The Rotarian, Teaching Tolerance, Utne Reader, In These Times, the Christian Science Monitor, Detroit Free Press, and San Francisco Chronicle.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2022
Genre: Soziologie
Rubrik: Wissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9781958363164
ISBN-10: 1958363162
Sprache: Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage: Paperback
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Wheeler, Jacob
Hersteller: Mission Point Press
Maße: 229 x 152 x 24 mm
Von/Mit: Jacob Wheeler
Erscheinungsdatum: 04.10.2022
Gewicht: 0,631 kg
Artikel-ID: 124040303
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