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Welcome to the Bangkok Slaughterhouse: The Battle for Human Dignity in Bangkok's Bleakest Slums [Paperback]

Joe Maier (Author)
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  • Paperback: 176 pages
  • Publisher: Periplus Editions/Berkeley Books Pte Ltd (30 April 2005)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0794602932
  • ISBN-13: 978-0794602932
  • Product Dimensions: 13.4 x 1.4 x 20.3 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,040,285 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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For twenty-five years, Father Joe Maier, a Catholic priest, has lived and worked in Bangkok's bleakest slums, establishing more than thirty schools, five shelters for street kids, and the city's first AIDS hospice and home for AIDS mothers with AIDS kids - working with and in opposition to authority, while being threatened and shot at and, ultimately, praised by even his enemies. Here he tells the stories of the poorest of Thailand's poor.

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5.0 out of 5 stars A must read - an eye opener to the slums of Bangkok 23 Dec 2006
By Mrs. Julie C. Baxter
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This is a fascinating book. We have visited the HDF where Father Joe is based and does his fantastic work. This book is a series of articles he has published in the Bangkok Post about some of the children he looks after. He writes very movingly, without judging. I think everyone should read it - particularly when enjoying a cheap holiday in Thailand - I urge you to donate to the charity too.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Another side of Bangkok 29 Jan 2013
By J. Tuffin
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This is a humorous, gripping, and heartbreaking book. Few lives can rival Father Joe Maier's in terms of human interest, and pure positive effect. A remarkable book and a remarkable man. One of the true heroes.
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5.0 out of 5 stars A Revealing Look Downstream 25 Jun 2008
By Greg Barrett - Published on Amazon.com
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This collection of Bangkok Post columns from Father Joe Maier, aka the Father Teresa of Bangkok's squatter slums, reveals in intimate detail the collateral damage and consequences of the world's gaping economic divide. But it doesn't beat us over the head with stories sappy and sad. Rather it tugs at our hearts, it provokes and angers, and it occasionally teases laughter.

The street children of the Mercy Centre are from the abject poverty of shantytowns and most are orphaned, abandoned, neglected and/or infected with HIV. But they are survivors. The ones who make it to Father Joe's Mercy Centre are NOT poor, Father Joe likes to say. They feel sorry for the poor and have empathy for them. And in these newspaper columns the resiliency and spunk of Mercy's street children reveal spirits that are rich and abundant.

Although the Mercy Centre has opened dozens of preschools in the Klong Toey slums of Bangkok, Father Joe insists here that the students are the real teachers, and in Welcome to the Bangkok Slaughterhouse he allows the narratives of their lives to instruct and inform us.
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5.0 out of 5 stars GOOD BOOK ... TRUE BOOK 3 Nov 2011
By Alice - Published on Amazon.com
Format:Kindle Edition
(Please use this as a my review instead of a response to 'Del's 1 star review)

In 1974 I taught at The International School in Bangkok but during the summer I was a volunteer at the very first school in Klong Toey started by Father Maier and Sister Maria. It was a wonderful experience to be with the children. My Thai was lousy but music and art are universal languages and through that bond we got to know each other and just had fun.

That school was a safe haven. No matter what happened or how awful some of their lives were school was security. Two great teachers taught them to read and write so they would have a better future than their parents and a way out of abject poverty. Those kids were smart. Any one of them would have done well in my class at ISB. All they needed was opportunity and someone to care.

In response to 'Del' who, after visiting Klong Toey wrote a scathing review.... He came to Klong Toey expecting to see kids mired in pain, shame and abuse. Instead he saw happy children who, thru love and care, were overcoming the anguish of their past.

In 1974 the first school had around 100 students. Now there are 35 schools and 50,000 slum kids have been educated.

See what a little love and a lot of grit will do!
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5.0 out of 5 stars An amazing story 11 Dec 2005
By Par Boman - Published on Amazon.com
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A truly heartwarming and inspiring book about Father Joe Maiers life with the poorest in the slums of Bangkok. The strength of the people he has met truly gives a further understanding about life.

This is an amazing read and I truly recommend it!
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