Volunteering


Last Stop on Market Street
Volunteer Vacations: Short-Term Adventures That Will Benefit You and Others
First Comes Love, then Comes Malaria: How a Peace Corps Poster Boy Won My Heart and a Third World Adventure Changed My Life
Little Princes: One Man's Promise to Bring Home the Lost Children of Nepal
Green Volunteers: The World Guide to Voluntary Work in Nature Conservation
Sunshine: A Graphic Novel
Yes No Maybe So
The Mosaic
Wide-Open World: How Volunteering Around the Globe Changed One Family's Lives Forever
Starting Now (Blossom Street, #9)
World Volunteers): The World Guide to Humanitarian and Development Volunteering
Red Flags and Butterflies
I'm Dreaming of a Black Christmas
Wonder (Wonder, #1)
Cat's People
Kid Power by Susan Beth PfefferHope Was Here by Joan BauerPaper Girls, Volume 1 by Brian K. VaughanNo Experience Required by Janet Quin-HarkinWorking Days by Anne Mazer
Youth with Jobs
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Cliff  James
I belin to see how a post-money society would work in practice. When we are in paid employment, we are exchanging our labour in return for money in order to live within a money-based society, nothing more. Both sides in the labour-salary exchange are motivated by self-interest. But when we volunteer our labour for a cause, for a better world, we are not so much exchanging our labour as investing it directly into the world we want to see. Notes for Utopia: there will be no money when we get there ...more
Cliff James, Life As A Kite

Another thing that was so amazing to me was how unbelievably upbeat most of them were. To hear some of them rejoicing over getting a better pair of shoes or a modest tent to find shelter in was truly humbling. You would have thought they had just won the lottery. Shame on me for whining about things I don't have. One man who liked to talk about Christ told me how the night before he had lulled himself to sleep by lying inside his tent and counting his blessings. How many of us could do that? ...more
Jerry Haney

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