Where am I giving? : a global adventure exploring how to use your gifts and talents to make a difference /
Timmerman, Kelsey
Where am I giving? : a global adventure exploring how to use your gifts and talents to make a difference / Kelsey Timmerman. - Hoboken, New Jersey : Wiley, c2018 - xx, 283 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references.
INTRODUCTION: THE TRASH PICKER, THE SLAVE, AND THE GARMENT MAKER (THE WORLD, 2001-2018) xiii PART I Why Give (When I Have Problems of My Own)? -- Life After College (Nepal, 2001)The mission / The responsibility of privilege -- One Night in a Slum Showed Me How Poor I Was (Kenya, 2010) Why should we care when we have our own problems? / My problem with missionaries / Giving thoughts and prayers -- We Aren't the Heroes (Kenya, 2010)Toxic charity / Fair trade travel -- Confessions of a Volunteer Addict (Indiana, 2010) Benefits of volunteering / 100-hour rule / Make where you live interesting -- What Can One Person Do? (Cambodia, 2017) Leaving Hollywood for a dump in Cambodia / The White Savior Industrial Complex -- Happiness Isn't Having a Lot; It's Giving a Lot (Cambodia, 2017) The Hero's journey / What The Matrix teaches us about happiness and purpose / Four pillars of meaning -- Giving Is Complicated: Ethnic Cleansing in the Most Generous Nation on Earth (Myanmar, 2017) Change starts with students / Problem with empathy / World Giving Index / Problem with orphanages -- Seeing Differently to Make a Difference (Myanmar, 2017) A not-so-noble Nobel Peace Prize winner / Problem with karma / Intent matters --Giving on Purpose (Myanmar, 2017) Giving alms / Meditating on giving -- The Gift of Tasting Ice Cream (Myanmar, 2017) A former monk on giving / Solitude / Thoreau's three chairs -- What Can I Give? -- Science of Do-gooding (Kenya, 2017) Effective altruism / The cost to save a life / Should you give your kidney? / Extreme givers -- Money for Nothing (Kenya, 2017) Universal basic income / Proximity to need / The poor are better givers -- No Justice, No Peace (Kenya, 2017) Election chaos / Freedom versus aid / Legacy of colonialism / Human rights / Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs -- Giving Is Immeasurable: Change One, Change 100 (Kenya, 2017) Waging peace on warriors / Stepping-stones in the river of life / Education as a path out of poverty -- PART III Start Local -- Growing Up Gandhi (India, 2017) Mandated giving / The Mother Teresa controversy / Gandhi on giving -- Start with Your Local (India, 2017) Crossing caste lines / Towers and slums / Untouchables -- Start Small (India, 2017) Locals challenging societal norms / Creating leaders / The girl effect -- PART IV The Gift of Travel --Should You Go on a Slum Tour? (India, 2017) Poverty porn? / History of "slumming it" / Impact of slum tours -- Joy in a Hopeless Place (Kenya, 2017) Safari Doctors / Following the locals' lead / Go make a difference / Investing in people -- See Yourself in the Lives of Others (Kenya, 2017) It's a wonderful life? / Our struggles connect us / Wisdom of traditional societies -- Travel If You Can - It's Fatal to Prejudice (Kenya, 2017) How travel makes you a better human / Travel creates philanthropists / Responsible tourism / Reverse culture shock -- PART V Is Helping Helping? -- The Kiva Controversy (Cambodia, 2017) The problem with microlending / Meeting Kiva borrowers / Giving fads -- Sponsor a Child, Save the World? (Zambia, 2017) The realities of child sponsorship / Stories versus stats / Psychic numbing / Aid and dependency -- Marine Wages War on Poverty Through Locally-Led Change (Kenya, 2010) Fighting terrorism by fighting poverty / Starting with the end in mind -- The Little Village That Was Supposed to Change the World (Kenya, 2017) UN's Millennium Development Goals / Can unlimited resources end poverty? / Do we need more or less id? -- PART VI Our Gifts Connect Us to the World -- 26 The Strength in Your Story (US, 2011-2018) The art of listening / The gift of your story -- The X Factor in the Good Person Equation
9781119448129 (hardcover)
2018019679
Humanitarianism
Voluntarism
Charities
Social action
BJ1475.3 / T48 2018
Where am I giving? : a global adventure exploring how to use your gifts and talents to make a difference / Kelsey Timmerman. - Hoboken, New Jersey : Wiley, c2018 - xx, 283 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references.
INTRODUCTION: THE TRASH PICKER, THE SLAVE, AND THE GARMENT MAKER (THE WORLD, 2001-2018) xiii PART I Why Give (When I Have Problems of My Own)? -- Life After College (Nepal, 2001)The mission / The responsibility of privilege -- One Night in a Slum Showed Me How Poor I Was (Kenya, 2010) Why should we care when we have our own problems? / My problem with missionaries / Giving thoughts and prayers -- We Aren't the Heroes (Kenya, 2010)Toxic charity / Fair trade travel -- Confessions of a Volunteer Addict (Indiana, 2010) Benefits of volunteering / 100-hour rule / Make where you live interesting -- What Can One Person Do? (Cambodia, 2017) Leaving Hollywood for a dump in Cambodia / The White Savior Industrial Complex -- Happiness Isn't Having a Lot; It's Giving a Lot (Cambodia, 2017) The Hero's journey / What The Matrix teaches us about happiness and purpose / Four pillars of meaning -- Giving Is Complicated: Ethnic Cleansing in the Most Generous Nation on Earth (Myanmar, 2017) Change starts with students / Problem with empathy / World Giving Index / Problem with orphanages -- Seeing Differently to Make a Difference (Myanmar, 2017) A not-so-noble Nobel Peace Prize winner / Problem with karma / Intent matters --Giving on Purpose (Myanmar, 2017) Giving alms / Meditating on giving -- The Gift of Tasting Ice Cream (Myanmar, 2017) A former monk on giving / Solitude / Thoreau's three chairs -- What Can I Give? -- Science of Do-gooding (Kenya, 2017) Effective altruism / The cost to save a life / Should you give your kidney? / Extreme givers -- Money for Nothing (Kenya, 2017) Universal basic income / Proximity to need / The poor are better givers -- No Justice, No Peace (Kenya, 2017) Election chaos / Freedom versus aid / Legacy of colonialism / Human rights / Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs -- Giving Is Immeasurable: Change One, Change 100 (Kenya, 2017) Waging peace on warriors / Stepping-stones in the river of life / Education as a path out of poverty -- PART III Start Local -- Growing Up Gandhi (India, 2017) Mandated giving / The Mother Teresa controversy / Gandhi on giving -- Start with Your Local (India, 2017) Crossing caste lines / Towers and slums / Untouchables -- Start Small (India, 2017) Locals challenging societal norms / Creating leaders / The girl effect -- PART IV The Gift of Travel --Should You Go on a Slum Tour? (India, 2017) Poverty porn? / History of "slumming it" / Impact of slum tours -- Joy in a Hopeless Place (Kenya, 2017) Safari Doctors / Following the locals' lead / Go make a difference / Investing in people -- See Yourself in the Lives of Others (Kenya, 2017) It's a wonderful life? / Our struggles connect us / Wisdom of traditional societies -- Travel If You Can - It's Fatal to Prejudice (Kenya, 2017) How travel makes you a better human / Travel creates philanthropists / Responsible tourism / Reverse culture shock -- PART V Is Helping Helping? -- The Kiva Controversy (Cambodia, 2017) The problem with microlending / Meeting Kiva borrowers / Giving fads -- Sponsor a Child, Save the World? (Zambia, 2017) The realities of child sponsorship / Stories versus stats / Psychic numbing / Aid and dependency -- Marine Wages War on Poverty Through Locally-Led Change (Kenya, 2010) Fighting terrorism by fighting poverty / Starting with the end in mind -- The Little Village That Was Supposed to Change the World (Kenya, 2017) UN's Millennium Development Goals / Can unlimited resources end poverty? / Do we need more or less id? -- PART VI Our Gifts Connect Us to the World -- 26 The Strength in Your Story (US, 2011-2018) The art of listening / The gift of your story -- The X Factor in the Good Person Equation
9781119448129 (hardcover)
2018019679
Humanitarianism
Voluntarism
Charities
Social action
BJ1475.3 / T48 2018