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Dana Sachs - All Else Failed, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2023

All Else Failed

The Unlikely Volunteers at the Heart of the Migrant Aid Crisis

Av Dana Sachs

Del i serien Footnote Press

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In 2015, increasing numbers of refugees and migrants, most of them fleeing war-torn homelands, arrived by boat on the shores of Greece, setting off the greatest human displacement in Europe since WWII. As journalists reported horrific mass drownings, an ill-prepared and seemingly indifferent world looked on. Those who reached land needed food, clothing, medicine and shelter, but the international aid system broke down completely.In a way that no one could have anticipated, volunteers arrived to help. Dana Sachs's compelling eyewitness account weaves together the lives of seven individuals and their families - including a British coal miner's daughter, a Syrian mother of six, and a jill-of-all-trades from New Zealand - who became part of this extraordinary effort. The story of their successes, and failures, is unforgettable and inspiring, and a clarion call for resilience and hope in the face of despair.War had shattered people's lives. This is what happened next.
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2023-03-23
  • Mått: 137 x 218 x 22 mm
  • Vikt: 274 g
  • Format: Häftad
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Serie: Footnote Press
  • Antal sidor: 272
  • Förlag: Bonnier Books Ltd
  • ISBN: 9781804440247
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Dana Sachs is a journalist, activist and author living in Wilmington, North Carolina. Her books include non-fiction narrative The Life We Were Given: Operation Babylift, International Adoption, and the Children of War in Vietnam (2010). She is the co-author, with Nguyen Nguyet Cam and Bui Hoai Mai, of Two Cakes Fit for a King: Folktales from Vietnam (2003) and co-translator of numerous Vietnamese short stories into English. In 2016, Dana co-founded Humanity Now: Direct Refugee Relief, a U.S.-based non-profit that raises money to fund grassroots aid projects aimed at helping improve the lives of the tens of thousands of displaced people in Greece.

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Dana Sachs chronicles what happened in Greece when Middle Eastern refugees and volunteers from around the world converged, imperfectly, often chaotically, but with empathy and generosity in ways that mattered and ways that moved me. Sometimes these impromptu communities fail in the end, but the fact that they succeeded for a time, against the odds, can teach us important lessons.

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