David Miles-Hanschell

Diary of a Shipping Clerk - Volume 1 (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A memoir documenting a rollercoaster ride of ups, downs, difficulties, disasters, stresses and successes in the work of a former teacher with a dream to transform classrooms all over the world.

¿¿In this diary - with great good humour and with present-day observations made with hindsight - David Miles-Hanschell documents tireless efforts to improve lives.

Hurricane Ivan struck the island of Grenada in the West Indies on Tuesday, 7 September 2004, causing widespread destruction. As well as creating devastation to individual lives, the category three storm wrecked power lines, healthcare, agriculture, and business from tourism - and only two of the country's 75 public schools remained undamaged.

Volume One of The Diary of a Shipping Clerk gives an account of David Miles-Hanschell's first endeavours to deliver ocean freight containers of salvaged, fit-for-purpose, surplus-to-requirements educational resources to three Grenada Government Schools (Grand Roy, Calliste and St Paul's) that had been devastated by the hurricane. David soon discovered that this was just a "tiny drop in the bucket of need", and so was determined to see if he could organise more shipments to the island's schools.

Thus began several years of dedication - aided by countless individuals - to transporting unwanted but useable school supplies from Scotland to schools all over the world desperate for such items.

His work has transformed numerous classrooms in many countries over the years.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: David Miles-Hanschell
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. September 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781739142612
• Artikelnr.: 66108902

Autorenporträt

"Hurricane Ivan devastated the island on 7 September 2004. I was first informed of the extent of that devastation in a letter handed to me by a parent of a pupil in my P4/5 class at North Bute Primary School."The letter was to change my life. It began the start of an epic journey of self-discovery, where my desire to help the people of Grenada was to consume my waking life."- David Miles HanschellDavid Miles-Hanschell was born on the island of Barbados in the West Indies. On his father's side, the family came from Puerto Rico and Denmark, in the middle of the nineteenth century, to settle eventually on the island of Barbados, where they opened a ship chandlery business, Hanschell & Co. On his mother's side, his grandparents had emigrated from the British Isles to western Canada, some of whom had settled in the town of Rothesay in New Brunswick. When he was seven, in 1950, his family moved to Trinidad where he completed his primary education, and he attended boarding school in Barbados in 1955.He lived, studied and worked all over Canada for many years. In 1973, finding himself in Scotland (on the way to Wales), he found he had a certain affinity for the place and decided to stay, later studying education at Moray House College in Edinburgh. He began his Scottish teaching career in the East End of Glasgow, eventually marrying and coming to teach on the Island of Bute some thirty years ago at North Bute Primary School.Prior to Hurricane Ivan's devastation of Grenada in 2004, he had had no direct contact with Grenada. However, as a child in Barbados he was aware of it as being an island of immense variety and appeal.Diary of a Shipping Clerk is his first book.