Title Santiago's children : what I learned about life at an orphanage in Chile / by Steve Reifenberg ; foreword by Paul Farmer

Edition 1st ed Published Austin : University of Texas Press, 2008

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Description 1 online resource (xxi, 226 pages) : map Contents Visions of a family farm -- The arrival -- Spanish lessons -- Olga and the Hogar -- Not as imagined -- Summer -- More Spanish and other lessons about Chile -- Politics -- The Pacific coast -- The end of summer -- A new school year -- Professional conversations -- On being a teacher -- Noisy and complicated -- The farm revisited -- Donors, demons, and dentists -- Marcelo -- An unexpected journey -- A home on Tupungato Street -- Catholics, Mormons, and evangelicals -- Boys, babies, and biters -- The University -- Winter in a new neighborhood -- Sebastián -- Explaining a few things -- You're going to do what? -- Groping in the dark -- God will see us through -- The end of the road -- The days of waiting -- The visit of the gringos -- Searching for something -- Taking leave Summary Unclear about his future career path, Steve Reifenberg found himself in the early 1980's working at a small orphanage in a poor neighborhood in Santiago, Chile, where a determined single woman was trying to create a stable home for a dozen or so children who had been abandoned or abused. With little more than good intentions and very limited Spanish, the 23 year-old Reifenberg plunged into the life of the Hogar Domingo Savio, becoming a foster father to kids who stretched his capacities for compassion and understanding in ways he never could have imagined back in the United States Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL English Print version record digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Independent Publisher Book Awards (IPPYs) (nominated), 2009 Subject Orphanages -- Chile -- Santiago Orphans -- Chile -- Santiago POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Services & Welfare. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Security. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural. Orphanages Orphans Chile -- Santiago Form Electronic book LC no. 2007030042 ISBN 9780292794382 029279438X 0292717415 9780292717411

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