No Room at the Table (Paperback)

Donald H. Dunson

ISBN 10: 1570754918 / ISBN 13: 9781570754913

Published by Orbis Books (USA), Maryknoll, 2003

About this Item

Paperback. A cry that touches our hearts and awakens our desire to help - in some way - the hundreds of thousands of children around the world who are at risk. Overwhelmed by poverty, war, hunger and separation from family, they are not allowed to be children. They carry guns, they sell themselves to buy food, they live on the streets. Donald Dunson tells the stories of our children from New Orleans to the Sudan. Each chapter profiles three or four individuals as it probes an issue affecting children children including hunger and poverty, was and sexual exploitation, homelessness and the need for love. No Room at the table concludes with a list of resources for involvement and action. It is an eye - and heart - opening work. Overwhelmed by poverty, war, hunger and separation from family and friends, they are not allowed to be children. Each chapter in this book tells several children's stories as it probes the reasons behind their plights, from New Orleans to the Sudan. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Seller Inventory # 9781570754913

Bibliographic Details

• Title: No Room at the Table (Paperback)
• Publisher: Orbis Books (USA), Maryknoll
• Publication Date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1570754918
• ISBN 13: 9781570754913
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

No Room at the Earth's Most Vulnerable Children

Reviews

Dunson, a Roman Catholic priest, writes elegiacally about the plight of vulnerable children worldwide, with emphasis on those in the poorest nations. He untangles the many trials that children face by focusing first on abducted child soldiers, then on sexually exploited children, child laborers, hungry children, refugees and those suffering from AIDS and preventable diseases. He pulls off an amazing feat by writing fearlessly about these politicized topics without grinding an ax of his own; his agenda is simply that of an impassioned advocate. Underlying the entire book is the philosophical position that all of humanity is connected and that children who suffer and die are our children, and that we share responsibility for them-guilt for their plight and accountability for their rescue. The book is strongest when Dunson discusses situations he knows firsthand, such as the plight of AIDS orphans in Kenya and children who have escaped Joseph Kony's Lord's Resistance Army in Uganda. When he writes about topics he does not know personally, such as purported child sex abuse via the Internet, some of his more dramatic claims are inadequately documented. Although Dunson looks unflinchingly at the ugly realities, such as the frequency with which American men go on "sex tours" in Asia that almost invariably involve child prostitutes, the book is full of optimism, citing successful efforts to quell such exploitation as well as other crimes against children, and offering a practical appendix on what readers can do to help.
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