Reviews

PRAISE FOR "GENERATION NGO"
"Travel with these ten thoughtful young Canadians to "el otro lado" - the other side - and like them you will come back with very different ideas about foreign aid, development, poverty, and Canada."
--Ian Smillie, author of "Freedom from Want and Blood on the Stone: Greed, Corruption and War in the Global Diamond Trade"
"This is a must-read for anyone who is planning to travel or has returned from abroad for volunteering or international development."
--Rebecca Tiessen, Canada Research Chair and Associate Professor, RMC, and Adjunct Professor, Global Development Studies, Queen's University
""Generation NGO" is essential prior-to-departure reading as more and more young people elect to volunteer overseas. This book is sure to inspire as well as to trouble its readers."
--Sally Humphries, Director, International Development Studies, University of Guelph
"Young Canadians set forth into the developing world to try to bring about positive change. But while their objectives are not always achieved - or even achievable - their tales show how they themselves are often more transformed in the process than the wide world they seek to help."
--Alexandre Trudeau, director of "Refuge, A Film About Darfur"
"In these astute and beautifully written personal essays, the authors critically engage with broad issues of development and social justice and interrogate their own role on the global stage. They leave us with much to ponder about the exhilaration, commitment, and ethical ambiguities that characterize the experience of Generation NGO."
--Jacqueline Solway, Professor, International Development Studies and Anthropology, Trent University, and former Director of Trent in Ghana
"These personal accounts of development theory, taken to and tested in the field, provide excellent insights into what can go wrong, what can go right, what surprises can come up, and what can be painfully, predictably, constant."
--Thomas Meredith, Associate Professor, Department of Geography, McGill University, and Director, Canadian Field Studies in Africa


REVIEWS OF "GENERATION NGO"
"The strongest essays in this collection tackle both the preconceptions of average Canadians and the ramifications of those preconceptions. Though none of the essays shies away from big issues such as race, class, gender, and privilege, the best of them expand the personal material into an examination of development theory in action."
--"Quill & Quire"
"The stories collected in "Generation NGO" should be read by anyone considering working or volunteering in the developing world. Penned by young professionals engaged in overseas development work, these first-hand experiences are told with honest and thoughtful reflection. . . . "Generation NGO" is about people moved to action by the ideal and challenged by the realities of political structures, culture and human nature."
--"Verge Magazine"


REVIEWS OF "GENERATION NGO"

"The strongest essays in this collection tackle both the preconceptions of average Canadians and the ramifications of those preconceptions. Though none of the essays shies away from big issues such as race, class, gender, and privilege, the best of them expand the personal material into an examination of development theory in action."
--"Quill & Quire"

"The stories collected in "Generation NGO" should be read by anyone considering working or volunteering in the developing world. Penned by young professionals engaged in overseas development work, these first-hand experiences are told with honest and thoughtful reflection. . . . "Generation NGO" is about people moved to action by the ideal and challenged by the realities of political structures, culture and human nature."
--"Verge Magazine"