Hoping to Help: The Promises and Pitfalls of Global Health Volunteering by
".....Hoping to Help is the first book to offer a comprehensive assessment of global health volunteering, based on research into how it currently operates, its benefits and drawbacks, and how it might be organized to contribute most effectively. Given the enormous human and economic investment in these activities, it is essential to know more...."
Six Months in Sudan: A Young Doctor in a War-Torn Village by
In 2006 James Maskalyk, a young, single ER physician, gave up a successful practice at one of Toronto's finest hospitals to join Doctors Without Borders. Armed with a wide set of medical skills and unburdened by a family of his own, he volunteered to serve in the world's most dangerous places. After months of waiting, he received his assignment: a small village called Abyei, sandwiched in between two military compounds on the border of northern and southern Sudan. ..."
