Key Resource01-01-1989 Thrity years on mission in Central Africa changed Dr. Daniel Fountain's thinking about his professional training, about current medical practice overseas and at home, and about the responsibility of the entire Christian community to promote health initiatives. Digging into biblical precepts and...
Readers will be moved by this exciting story of real-life good Samaritans in this uplifting story of Habitat for Humanity. Fuller tells how he came to be touched with the needs of others for affordable housing. He incorporates testimonies from celebrities - Jimmy Carter, Tom Brokaw, Paul Newman...
01-01-2002 It is the hope of the consultation group and the editors that in the midst of the most horrific crisis of modern day, that this manual will provide a useful guide to offering compassionate, thoughtful care to those in desperate needs.
Gibbons analyzes the ruinous three-year trade embargo imposed on Haiti in response to the September 1991 coup d'etat to President Aristide's return to office in October 1994. She dissects the multidimensional impact of sanctions on Haitian society by examining the economic devastation and social...
19-01-1998 This book was written as a companion volume to Reasons for Hope: Instructive Experiences in Rural Development, a collection of case studies of programs that have succeeded in improving the lives and prospects of large numbers of rural hosuseholds, often in very inhospitable settings. We draw...
19-01-1997 In the personal words of international development initiators,Reasons for Hopetells true stories of what can be done to improve the lives of those in rural communities. Read individually for specific guidance, or collectively for cumulative advice on how to promote the most desirable forms of...
The focus of the document is life skills-based sanitation and hygiene education for primary school children. For ease of reading we have not made a distinction between adolescents and the other groups and have used the term 'children' to refer to all groups. Although the principles of life...
Everyone-especially parents, caregivers, young people, health workers and teachers-has the right to know this information. In plain language, Facts for Life brings together the most authoritative information about practical, effective and low-cost ways of protecting children's lives and health....