eBooks - Social Issues - Social Issues - Joseph Collins - Stefano Dezerega - Zahara Heckscher - How to Live Your Dream of Volunteering Overseas
How to Live Your Dream of Volunteering Overseas eBooks
By: Joseph Collins, Stefano Dezerega, Zahara Heckscher
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How to Live Your Dream of Volunteering Overseas Summary
| "More than 100,000 people contact the Peace Corps every year, but only 3,000 are placed overseas. To help more Americans find volunteer opportunities aborad Joseph Collins, Stefano DeZerega, and Zahara Heckscher-all founders of respected volunteer organizations-have written a guide that provide all the necessary information on volunteering in Latin America, Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and Eastern Europe. Presented in a user-friendly format that includes case studies, worksheets, and quotes from international volunteers, this books provides college students, senior citizens, and everyone in between with information on: How to decide if volunteering overseas is for you How to choose the right program What to do before and after you go abroad Fundraising and financing How to be an effective volunteer Political and social contexts of Americans volunteering abroad The Peace Corps More than one hundred other volunteer organizations" |
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| Part detective story and part anti-globalism manifesto, this primer on today's dizzying world economy is an eye-opening gallop through the international marketplace of money, fueled by 'honest, useful outrage" (San Francisco Chronicle.) Barbara Garson begins simply by depositing a modest sum in a one-branch bank. With a second sum, she buys shares in an aggressive mutual fund. From these points of departure, she tracks her money's every stop as it races around the globe. Along the way she talks to people who touch use and are used by her money. From downsized steelworkers in Tennessee to shrimp farmers in Malaysia, from the men building an oil refinery in Thailand to the migrant workers and street vendors who work on the project. Few of the people Garson meets think a lot about the abstract flow of capital, but by the time the tour is over, the real mechanisms of corporate globalization have become clear. This is urgent reading for all who are committed to making a better world. |
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