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Andean Adventures: An Unexpected Search for Meaning, Purpose and Discovery Across Three Countries
by Wind, Allan J. Alonzo
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Over the last three and half years, it has been hard to find much inspiration and motivation in public life. As some have built walls both real and imagined, we have become isolated from the other side of these walls. This long feared yet poorly anticipated global pandemic has placed us into a contaminated and chaotic Coronaverse, where international discourse and exchanges are frozen and uncertain. I am offering this book to recall simpler times. I want to remind us when national service in Peace Corps and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) abroad offered a chance to help. When service abroad offered a chance to find meaning and purpose. This book is for the younger generations who have seen their opportunities and futures seized from them. It is also for those with loved ones derailed by the disruption and the deformed public discourse.Are you considering life options overseas once we get through to the other side of this Coronaverse? Are you interested in finding opportunities for greater meaning and purpose? Are you interested in a story of failure, redemption, challenges, faith and perseverance?I have some stories to share. My life took a direction I had never anticipated from the start. I served overseas thinking that I would then return to a normal life. That proved not to be the case. I was shot at, arrested, threatened with expulsion. I also encountered the most unexpected surprises along the way. There are lessons and experiences that are informative and instructive. This book represents one important slice of my life story and that of many wonderful people. The Andean Adventures here are the first which really determined my life. Though I would go on to others, these were formative and decisive. COMMENTS ABOUT "ANDEAN ADVENTURES""I have known Allan aka 'Alonzo' since our Peace Corps days together in Ecuador. His adventures bring me back to my days of youthful optimism and the desire to be a true humanitarian. This lovely, amusing and very entertaining story of Allan's Andean Adventures shows the reader the power of compassion, kindness, open mindedness and the importance of being true to oneself and those around us. Allan uses anecdotes and humor to remind us of the importance of understanding, respecting and accepting our cultural differences." - Rachel Zelon, CEO Hunger Relief International"I had no idea, when Allan was driving me around in his Brown Bomber apparently trying to kill us all, that he would find genuine and faith-inspired ways of improving the world for ordinary people. His transformation into Alonzo, an international development activist, stirs the imagination for us, young and old."- Kris Organ, Service Employees International Union Organizer, retired."I had the opportunity to meet Alonzo Wind in action in South Africa and appreciated what USAID under his lead was doing to address HIV AIDS there. This narrative from the beginning of his career is a fun window into his early experiences on another continent. I find inspiring his message about encouraging national service in arenas like the Peace Corps, once it is re-established again. As someone who encourages people to do all they can to promote the social good, this is a rewarding and positive read."-Todd Krim aka "Mr. Charity"President & CEO TKG -THE KRIM GROUPInstagram: @ToddKrim Website: www.TheKrimGroup.comWhere Influence Meets Social Good(TM)
- Format: Trade Paperback
- Author: Wind, Allan J. Alonzo
- ISBN: 9798671778915
- Condition: Used
- Dimensions: 9.00 x 0.64
- Number Of Pages: 282
- Publication Year: 2020