Volunteer Work category: 192 books

Africa. E’ qui che inizia questa storia, un continente grande 30 volte l’Italia e con problematiche che nemmeno la migliore delle magie riuscirebbe a risolvere. Risultato di secoli di colonialismo e saccheggio che hanno drammaticamente impoverito la popolazione. E’ in questo scenario...

'Resilience' has become one of the first fully fledged academic and political buzzwords of the 21st century. Within this context, Geoffrey DeVerteuil proposes a more critically engaged and conceptually robust version, applying it to the conspicuous but now residual clusters of inner-city voluntary...

If a person were to use his mind, speech, and body for the benefit of others, he would never be short of material comforts and worldly happiness. And if one realizes the Self, then he will attain eternal bliss. The goal of human life is to use the mind, body, and speech for the good of others. Religion...

Going beyond the simple focus on food that typical diet guides perpetuate, this book shows how true health and well-being is obtained when people become free from their obsessions and shift their attention to things greater than themselves. With a focus on developing the habit of serving others for...

The voluntary and non-profit sector is an important and emerging feature of Japanese society. It is a response both to the changing nature of this society and to political and social trends that have encouraged the Japanese government to see this sector as a potential provider of public services....

Sport volunteering is becoming an increasingly popular motive for international travel. Many tourism organisations now advertise sport volunteering projects, with colleges and universities also offering students the opportunity to participate in similar projects abroad. This is the first book to bring...

Waste Management: Sanitation by way of disposal of excreta in the rural areas and collection, segregation and disposal of solid waste in the urban areas still continues to remain a formidable challenge, more so because the interventions of the governmental agencies fall far short of the required dimensions....

The book Sociology of Sanitation delineates the conceptual and theoretical formulations necessary for the study of sanitation. It develops some postulates that lead us to the various visible and invisible dimensions of sanitation. It uses data provided by various national and global agencies and presents...

Exclusion from safe water and basic sanitation destroys more lives than any casualty. As an 'instrumental' exclusion it reinforces the deep inequalities in life chances and life styles that divide countries and people on the basis of spatial, wealth, gender, caste and other markers for deprivation....

‘Vision’ is linked to, but not the same as, ‘Mission’.  There are various, differing views about the usefulness of either of these, and quite what they mean.  A broad interpretation could be that a vision for a voluntary organisation is about what they want to see change in their...

I’ve shown you my moral flexibility. If you think there’s something I can do for you, feel free to contact me. Maybe I can help you unearth your 1% skills, establish your web presence, transform your image, check your security, you name it. I’m a wild thang. Nah, just kidding. Want me to teach you acting?

Emozioni intense, natura prepotente di indescrivibile bellezza, persone straordinarie, vita quotidiana in un ospedale missionario, viaggi on the road tra Kenya, Tanzania, Zanzibar e Sudan. A 35 anni, malgrado una carriera avviata come ingegnere clinico, Stefania sente il bisogno di cambiare rotta....

This book on servicelearning provides a current view of servicelearning research in the second language classroom and practical applications for the acquisition of both cultural knowledge as well as the different language modalities. This book helps in understanding how using servicelearning in the language...

Développer le pouvoir d’agir des citoyens à l’échelle d’un quartier, d’une ville ou d’un village, c’est l’un des axes majeurs de l’action des 2 000 centres sociaux présents dans toute la France. À rebours de l’idée reçue selon laquelle « pour résoudre les problèmes, il...