Letters from Alfonso: Learning to Listen: The first-hand account of a Colombian village's birth and growth--important lessons for the Peace Corps, NGOs, and the rest of us - Softcover

Kessler, Earl

 
9781938288227: Letters from Alfonso: Learning to Listen: The first-hand account of a Colombian village's birth and growth--important lessons for the Peace Corps, NGOs, and the rest of us

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Construction, development projects, slum improvement—rewarding work for Peace Corps volunteer Earl Kessler. But when residents of a Colombian town wiped out by flood took the future into their own hands, his life intersected with that of Alfonso Perez Correa, and he learned lessons in local participation and empowerment that have helped bring success in meeting community needs all over the world.

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Earl Kessler’s life has been devoted to building communities, in both the physical and the interpersonal senses. In Panama, India, Pakistan, Vietnam, that work has meant applying the lessons first learned in the Peace Corps in the Colombian village whose birth he describes in Letters from Alfonso.

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