Kategoria BISAC: Social Science >> Philanthropy & Charity

The complex relationships between altruists, beneficiaries, and brokers in the global effort to fight AIDS in Africa

In the wake of the AIDS pandemic, legions of organizations and compassionate individuals descended on Africa from faraway places to offer their help and save lives. A Fraught Embrace shows how the dreams of these altruists became entangled with complex institutional and human relationships. Ann Swidler and Susan Cotts Watkins vividly describe the often mismatched expectations and fantasies of those who seek to help, of the villagers who desperately seek...

Throughout the 1990s, MEdecins Sans FrontiEres (MSF) was forced to face the challenges posed by the genocide of Rwandan Tutsis and a succession of major outbreaks of political violence in Rwanda and its neighbouring countries. Humanitarian workers were confronted with the execution of close to one million people, tens of thousands of casualties pouring into health centres, the flight of millions of others who had sought refuge in camps and a series of deadly epidemics.Where and in what circumstances were the MSF teams deployed? What medical and non-medical assistance were they able to...

What would you do in the last hour of your life?

The story of Welles Crowther, whose actions on 9/11 offer a lasting lesson on character, calling and courage

One Sunday morning before church, when Welles Crowther was a young boy, his father gave him a red handkerchief for his back pocket. Welles kept it with him that day, and just about every day to come; it became a fixture and his signature.

A standout athlete growing up in Upper Nyack, NY, Welles was also a volunteer at the local fire...

The gospel command is to “go” into the world, to minister to the sick and the poor, and to bring the good news of Christ and His work on the cross to those who have not heard of Him. Ten people from many different walks of life did just this through Hearts Afire ministry, traveling more than 30,000 miles to foreign lands, not sure what they would find.

They answered the call and encountered a risen and vibrant Savior, One who still works in wondrous and mysterious ways today.

Serving With Hearts Afire chronicles the mission journeys of ten ordinary...

This book provides a historical account of the NGO CARE as one of the largest humanitarian NGOs worldwide. Starting in the 1940s, the author analyzes CARE's history, taking both the organization's specific development and general trends of humanitarian history throughout the second half of the 20th century into account. It provides an intriguing perspective on one of the most innovative and fast-growing private humanitarian players in the field of global hunger relief, and analyzes CARE's intricate relations to international governments, NGOs and corporate players in the United States and...