Jackie Pullinger, Andrew Quicke

Chasing the Dragon (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Until it was pulled down, the Walled City was Hong Kong's most foreboding territory. It was a lawless place, dominated by the Triads, and which the police hesitated to enter. Strangers were unwelcome. Drug smuggling and heroin addiction flourished, as did prostitution and pornography, extortion and fear. When Jackie Pullinger set sail from England in 1966 she had no idea that God was calling her to the Walled City. Yet, as she spoke of Jesus Christ, brutal Triad gangsters were converted, prostitutes quit, and Jackie discovered a new treatment for drug addiction: baptism in the Holy Spirit.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Murray Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Altersempfehlung: ab 11 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Januar 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781444717976
• Artikelnr.: 39269763

Autorenporträt

Jackie Pullinger-To is a British woman who lives and works among the poor, the homeless and the drug addicts of Hong Kong.

Over thirty years ago she went to Hong Kong on a one way ticket, and arrived knowing no one with just $100 HK in her pocket. She lived and worked in Kowloon's notorious 'Walled City' and by 1981 she had set up the St Stephen's Society, which provides rehabilitation homes for recovering drug addicts, prostitutes, and gang members. By December 2007 it had grown to provide homes for 200 people.

The charity's work has been recognized by the Hong Kong government who donated the land for the rehabilitation homes.

Jackie's story is told in her renowned book Chasing the Dragon and she still lives in Hong Kong and runs the St Stephen's Society.