I want to go to your school !

This book contains some astonishing accounts of successful educational schemes undertaken to help the young persons in five continents and in very different cultural contexts. The reader should find these accounts thought-provoking: they highlight both new and old challenges, and offer hope for the future.

They were written by teachers with hands-on experience in extreme conditions. They describe their work among the Aborigenes in Australia, the Gypsies in France, the slum-dwellers of Nairobi, amid the violence of Colombia, at the meeting-point of different religious cultures in Asia ; their promotion of the minority cultures of the Maya and Papuan peoples, of the young black and Latino migrants of Chicago or Philadelphia; and their commitment of universities to the social transformation of the population. Working in extreme conditions and in an educational situation which was always precarious, they were inspired by a humanitarian concern and a sense of citizenship rooted in the Christian faith.