商品簡介
Can one person make a difference?
When we write a cheque to a charity, or run in a fundraiser, or volunteer at a food bank, we’re part of the solution, aren’t we?
Author and journalist Lawrence Scanlan went searching for answers to those questions. He selected twelve different charitable organizations and devoted a month to each. What he discovered during his year-long odyssey was the new face of philanthropy its players, its politics, its undeniable satisfactions and its fundamental perils.
Scanlan works alongside other volunteer builders in hurricane-ravaged New Orleans, teaches journalism at a community radio station in Senegal, works with AIDS/HIV victims in Costa Rica, and marvels at the resilience of the homeless in Canada. He encounters the legacies of famous philanthropists, from Andrew Carnegie, Paul Newman, Bill Gates and June Callwood to lesser-known figures like street nurse Cathy Crowe, prison nun Mother Antonia, and a woman who grows a garden for the dying. Finding hope and humor every step of the way, Scanlan nevertheless confronts some uncomfortable truths about direct engagement and the societal divide that allows most of us to look away.
A Year of Living Generously is a fresh and critical exlporation of ways to help the world's less fortunate. Scanlan argues passionately for greater connection and genuine committment from us allindividuals, governments and philanthropists of every stripe.
作者簡介
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.
