Santiago's Children What I Learned about Life at an Orphanage in Chile

Name: Santiago's Children What I Learned about Life at an Orphanage in Chile
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ISBN: 9780292717428

ISBN-10: 0292717423

ISBN-13: 9780292717428

Edition: 2008

Authors: Steve Reifenberg, Paul Farmer

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Unclear about his future career path, Steve Reifenberg found himself in the early 1980s 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. In this beautifully written memoir, Reifenberg recalls his two years at the Hogar Domingo Savio. His vivid…

Book details

List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Publication date: 4/15/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 250
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English



Foreword



Acknowledgments



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



Sebasti_n



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


Epilogue