Faithin Omaha eBook Collection

Download or read book Distant Partners written by Ben W. Lappin and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 1990 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers an inside look at two communities, half a world apart, who became partners. One needed aid and the other had the means to help; the book chronicles their relationship in all its complexities, pitfalls, successes and failures. This unique documentary provides a day-by-day, blow-by-blow record of community development in practice. It is presented in full and analyzed by the two authors, one of whom was the community worker while the other was a member of the Croydon committee which was responsible for implementing the agreement.