1st Edition
Projects Abroad and the Invention of Mass Overseas Volunteering
Prologue 1. The Origins of Projects Abroad 2. Entrepreneurship and Start-Up 3. Early Years: The Reality of Business 4. Expansion and Diversification 5. Accelerated Growth 6. Running a Global Business 7. 'We Can Do Anything We Want' 8. Worthwhileness and Hubris 9. Decline and Rebuild
Biography
Peter M Slowe is a businessman and distinguished academic specialising in political and military geography. He has a BSc from Bristol, a DPhil from Oxford and an honorary PhD from New Buckinghamshire and is the author of numerous publications, including the seminal Geography and Political Power. He founded Projects Abroad in 1992, inventing the voluntourism sector and sending over 160,000 young people to work in developing countries as volunteers.
