Tibetan Foothold

Tibetan Foothold is Dervla Murphy's account of the day-to-day life in an orphanage for Tibetan children in the refugee camps of Northern India in the 1960s. Dervla vividly describes the children's lives in squalor while a handful of dedicated volunteers do their best to feed and care for them, attempting to keep disease at bay with limited resources. Dervla's heart-rending account is interwoven with her own observations on the particular cultural and social problems associated with trying to help a people who have lived in isolation from the rest of the world, and she becomes a perceptive witness to the inner realities and sometime inadequacies of aid work.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Eland Publishing
Published: 04/12/2012
ISBN: 9781906011642
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.66lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.70d