The Kindness of Strangers: Adult Mentors, Urban Youth, and the New Voluntarism

By Marc Freedman

The Kindness of Strangers tells the story of a group of concerned adults who mentor inner-city youth. It describes what volunteers can do to ameliorate the conditions of young people living in poverty and chronicles the rise of the mentoring movement, examining its wider implications for education and social policy.

Marc Freedman brings experience, research, and realism in an effort to present the truth about the mentoring movement sweeping America today.

The revised edition, published by Cambridge University Press in 1999, contains a new introduction that highlights research conducted since the original publication of the book in 1993.

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Paperback: 192 pages; Dimensions (in inches): 0.53 x 9.01 x 6.01

Publisher: Cambridge Univ Pr (Trd); Reprint edition (January 1, 1999)

ISBN: 052165287