Humanitarianism’s Volunteers: The Italian Lay Missionary Movement in the Long 1960s

What is it about?

Who are the men and women who have made history in international humanitarianism? What were their experiences, actions and emotions? This article traces the story of the young Italian volunteers who worked alongside missionaries in Africa and Latin America in the long 1960s. Through letters, diaries, interviews and memoirs it tells what the lay volunteers did, but also felt, thought and imagined

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