Who Cares?: Millions Do... : A Book About Altruism - Hardcover

Meltzer, Milton

9780802783240: Who Cares?: Millions Do... : A Book About Altruism

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0802783244 ISBN 13: 9780802783240

Publisher: Walker & Co, 1994

Offers, as an antidote to the evening news, stories of people who care enough to make a difference, from freedom riders in the 1960s to high school environmental organizations who boycott school cafeterias using styrofoam

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Gr. 7-10. With the debate raging over community service within our public schools as well as the necessity for more and more charitable agencies to pick up services from the public sector, Meltzer's book fills a gap in middle- and high-school collections for both research and simple information. Altruistic organizations such as CARE, the Peace Corps, Habitat for Humanity, and Volunteers of America as well as individual humanitarians such as Oskar Schindler, Eugene Lang (who promised college educations to 61 New York sixth-graders), and Jean-Henri Dunant (founder of the Red Cross) are all gathered together in a single volume. In source notes at the end of the book, Meltzer admits that he had a difficult time organizing the vast amounts of information into a cohesive whole. This is borne out in the lack of transition between, and sometimes even within, chapters. Yet the problem is symptomatic of what Meltzer is attempting to illustrate. Millions of people the world over, both individually and collectively, care about their fellow beings. Here that altruism is documented. Bibliography. Frances Bradburn

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