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Not So Far from Home: Owning Homelessness in My Own Backyard

Charlie Quimby

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Description:Not So Far from Home brings a deeply personal perspective on how homelessness is a moral responsibility and community-building opportunity for the well-housed in America. In stories of service and friendship with un-homed neighbors, Charlie Quimby shows how poor people and marginal neighborhoods bear the human costs of insulating prosperous citizens like him.In 2009 Quimby volunteered as a preschool classroom aide in a Minneapolis emergency family shelter. His main interest was setting at-risk kids on a more stable life path, but the struggles of their parents also spoke to his heart. Moved by the children’s potential and dismayed by their precarious circumstances, he began writing reports on his volunteer work as it expanded in Minneapolis and Western Colorado. This collection of short vignettes and essays conveys the dignity and hopes of the diverse people he meets, while probing how indifference, flawed perceptions, and fragmented support systems can obstruct solutions to ending homelessness.For anyone considering a role in community affairs, his insights into volunteering and everyday activism will enlighten and inspire. Those already dedicated to fields of social service will find recognition of their work's importance and appreciation of their daily challenges.Not So Far from Home features the big-hearted sensibility and empathetic portrayals of people on the margins that brought acclaim for Quimby's novels, Monument Road and Inhabited. We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Not So Far from Home: Owning Homelessness in My Own Backyard. To get started finding Not So Far from Home: Owning Homelessness in My Own Backyard, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: Not So Far from Home brings a deeply personal perspective on how homelessness is a moral responsibility and community-building opportunity for the well-housed in America. In stories of service and friendship with un-homed neighbors, Charlie Quimby shows how poor people and marginal neighborhoods bear the human costs of insulating prosperous citizens like him.In 2009 Quimby volunteered as a preschool classroom aide in a Minneapolis emergency family shelter. His main interest was setting at-risk kids on a more stable life path, but the struggles of their parents also spoke to his heart. Moved by the children’s potential and dismayed by their precarious circumstances, he began writing reports on his volunteer work as it expanded in Minneapolis and Western Colorado. This collection of short vignettes and essays conveys the dignity and hopes of the diverse people he meets, while probing how indifference, flawed perceptions, and fragmented support systems can obstruct solutions to ending homelessness.For anyone considering a role in community affairs, his insights into volunteering and everyday activism will enlighten and inspire. Those already dedicated to fields of social service will find recognition of their work's importance and appreciation of their daily challenges.Not So Far from Home features the big-hearted sensibility and empathetic portrayals of people on the margins that brought acclaim for Quimby's novels, Monument Road and Inhabited. We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Not So Far from Home: Owning Homelessness in My Own Backyard. To get started finding Not So Far from Home: Owning Homelessness in My Own Backyard, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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