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"No Europeans live there " exclaim the locals when the Schneider family moves to the slums of Manila. Yet garbage dumps and tin shacks are to be their home for many years. It's here that they encounter chief witness Nick, doomed Jessabel, rapist Arol, billionaire Do a, guerilla Nardo, burnt-out development worker Rob ... The couple's gripping, first-hand account tells of countless fascinating encounters, of friendship and betrayal, of floods and shoot-outs in broad daylight, of prayers, dreams and fears, of meaningless death and meaningful life. Christian Schneider, a trained nurse, and his wife, Christine, a primary school teacher, spent over nine years in the slums of Manila with their two children. Through their life with the poor, they helped develop therapeutic communities for former drug addicts, prostitutes and street children. Christian and Christine now live back in Switzerland, but continue to support the aid organization Onesimo they founded in Manila.… (más)
Información procedente del Conocimiento común alemán.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
Für Rose Pecio-Salve, die mit ihrer Familie freiwillig im Slum lebt und für all unsere engagierten Freunde in den Philippinen steht.
und für Ernst "Aschi" Bucher-Läng, der mit seiner Familie in einem abgelegenen Tal der Alpen lebt und für all unsere Freunde steht, denen die Armen dieser Welt nicht gleichgültig sind.
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Información procedente del Conocimiento común alemán.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
9. Juni 1988. Schier endlos reihen sich die merkwürdigsten Behausungen auf dem leicht hügeligen, von der Tropensonne ausgemergelten Land aneinander.
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Información procedente del Conocimiento común alemán.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
Zwar ist die Schweiz schöner, sagen sie, wirklich wohl fühlen sie sich aber erst im Tempo, im Lärm und im Menschengetümmel von Manila.
"No Europeans live there " exclaim the locals when the Schneider family moves to the slums of Manila. Yet garbage dumps and tin shacks are to be their home for many years. It's here that they encounter chief witness Nick, doomed Jessabel, rapist Arol, billionaire Do a, guerilla Nardo, burnt-out development worker Rob ... The couple's gripping, first-hand account tells of countless fascinating encounters, of friendship and betrayal, of floods and shoot-outs in broad daylight, of prayers, dreams and fears, of meaningless death and meaningful life. Christian Schneider, a trained nurse, and his wife, Christine, a primary school teacher, spent over nine years in the slums of Manila with their two children. Through their life with the poor, they helped develop therapeutic communities for former drug addicts, prostitutes and street children. Christian and Christine now live back in Switzerland, but continue to support the aid organization Onesimo they founded in Manila.
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