Title: The gospel of Father Joe
Subtitle: revolutions and revelations in the slums of Bangkok
First published: 2008
Description: Three decades ago in a cordoned-off corner of the developing world an angry Catholic priest armed only with pencil, paper, and crayons, declared a revolution. From a shanty school shared with Buddhists and Muslims in Bangkok's squatter slums, Father Joe Maier began his advance on abject poverty. Today, his Human Development Foundation and Mercy Centre charity is responsible for thirty-two preschools that have taught more than twenty thousand children how to read and write. Despite the crippling neglect found in impoverishment, he is raising international scholars and injecting a sense of purpose into shantytowns and squatter camps that used to have neither.
Subjects: Social conditions, Social problems, Nonfiction, Religion & Spirituality, Fathers of the church, biography, Thailand, biography, Social workers
Places: Bangkok, Thailand, Bangkok (Thailand)
People: Joe Maier
LC classification: HN700.55.A8 B37 2008