Angel of the Garbage Dump: How Hanley Denning Changed the World, One Child at a Time

by Jacob Wheeler

Book Overview

Maine-native Hanley Denning saw poverty and desperation in its ugliest form, and refused to turn a blind eye. A former track star at Bowdoin College, Denning was struck by what she saw at the Guatemalan City dump: garbage pickers competing with vultures for the food dumped by trucks, toddlers playing amidst rats. The experience prompted her to, as Mother Teresa said, "find her own Calcutta." Hanley called her family in New England and asked them...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1958363162
• ISBN13: 9781958363164
• Release Date: August 2022
• Publisher: Mission Point Press
• Length: 390 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"