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Welcome to the Bangkok Slaughterhouse: The Battle for Human Dignity in Bangkok's Bleakest Slums | Joe Maier | An amazing story

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Welcome to the Ban...

	Welcome to the Bangkok Slaughterhouse: The Battle for Human Dignity in Bangkok's Bleakest Slums Joe Maier Periplus Editions, 2005 - 160 pages average customer review:based on 3 reviews view larger image
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For twenty-five years, Father Joe Maier, a Catholic priest, has lived and worked in Bangkok's bleakest slums, establishing more than thirty schools, five shelters for street kids, and several projects for women and children with AIDS, working with and against authority, earning enmity and praise in equal measure. In this book, he tells the heartbreaking and heartwarming stories of the poorest of Thailand's poor, each a gem guaranteed to bring anger, tears, and joy. 100% of all proceeds will be donated to the Human Development Fund in Bangkok, Thailand

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A Revealing Look Downstream

This collection of Bangkok Post columns from Father Joe Maier, aka the Father Teresa of Bangkok's squatter slums, reveals in intimate detail the collateral damage and consequences of the world's gaping economic divide. But it doesn't beat us over the head with stories sappy and sad. Rather it tugs at our hearts, it provokes and angers, and it occasionally teases laughter.

The street children of the Mercy Centre are from the abject poverty of shantytowns and most are orphaned, abandoned, neglected and/or infected with HIV. But they are survivors. The ones who make it to Father Joe's Mercy Centre are NOT poor, Father Joe likes to say. They feel sorry for the poor and have empathy for them. And in these newspaper columns the resiliency and spunk of Mercy's street children reveal spirits that are rich and abundant.

Although the Mercy Centre has opened dozens of preschools in the Klong Toey slums of Bangkok, Father Joe insists here that the students are the real teachers, and in Welcome to the Bangkok Slaughterhouse he allows the narratives of their lives to instruct and inform us.

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An amazing story

A truly heartwarming and inspiring book about Father Joe Maiers life with the poorest in the slums of Bangkok. The strength of the people he has met truly gives a further understanding about life.

This is an amazing read and I truly recommend it!

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