Yovo: Experiences of West Africa【電子書籍】[ Kiana Frick ]

＜p＞"If I can help here at the orphanage, great. But if all I take from this experience is understanding... that’s still great. I will bring an ounce of understanding home to an America which is really very ignorant about this place.."＜/p＞ ＜p＞Kiana, a 17-year-old from Long Island, brings a pound of understanding. She spent 6 weeks in Togo, West Africa, living with an African family and volunteering at an orphanage. This short book is an edited collection of her blogs.＜/p＞ ＜p＞"People know there is poverty. But also there is generosity, there are political problems, there is culture, there are jokes, there is a different way of interacting and viewing the world."＜/p＞ ＜p＞She describes some of the stunning beauty of Togo. She also describes negatives: her misery in getting sick; her frustrations with things not working; and problems, such as teachers in the schools not being paid. She describes the poverty.＜/p＞ ＜p＞But she never asks for pity: "But what I want you to understand is not that t．．．楽天市場のショップで商品詳細の続きを見る