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Title details for Shame--Confessions of an Aid Worker in Africa by Jillian Reilly - Available

Shame--Confessions of an Aid Worker in Africa

by Jillian Reilly
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Twenty-three-year-old Jillian Reilly went to southern Africa in 1993 at the close of apartheid, desperate to do good. She only planned to stay for six months, but the promise of playing savior was just too great. Jillian's career in the aid industry flourished.
To all the world, she looked like a successful 'do-gooder' — even a precocious one. If only she weren't being suffocated by her own sense of futility. Jillian left southern Africa in 2000 quite clear that the only person she could save was herself. 'Shame' is her story: the story of a young American woman growing up, and old, in Africa. Realizing her own limitations, and the sorry realities of the big business of doing good.

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Publisher: Jillian Reilly

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  • ISBN: 9780987003430
  • Release date: August 21, 2012

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  • ISBN: 9780987003430
  • File size: 344 KB
  • Release date: August 21, 2012

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Biography & Autobiography Politics Nonfiction

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English

Twenty-three-year-old Jillian Reilly went to southern Africa in 1993 at the close of apartheid, desperate to do good. She only planned to stay for six months, but the promise of playing savior was just too great. Jillian's career in the aid industry flourished.
To all the world, she looked like a successful 'do-gooder' — even a precocious one. If only she weren't being suffocated by her own sense of futility. Jillian left southern Africa in 2000 quite clear that the only person she could save was herself. 'Shame' is her story: the story of a young American woman growing up, and old, in Africa. Realizing her own limitations, and the sorry realities of the big business of doing good.

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Biography & Autobiography Politics Nonfiction