A memoir documenting a rollercoaster ride of ups, downs, difficulties, disasters, stresses and successes in the work of a former teacher with a dream to transform classrooms all over the world. David's work has transformed numerous classrooms in many countries over the years.
In this diary - with great good humour and with present-day observations made with hindsight - David Miles-Hanschell documents tireless efforts to improve lives. This third and final volume of The Diary of a Shipping Clerk is a record of how David Miles-Hanschell brought to a close a remarkable effort to salvage fit-for-purpose educational resources from schools, and ensure that these materials were put to good use where it was needed most.
This volume records David's efforts, between 2009 and 2012, to repurpose vast quantities of desks, books and equipment that were due to be discarded, destroyed and sent to landfill.
But persistence came at a cost. The increasing obstacles, the financial burden of the mission, and the strain of his own ill health tested the limits of David's dedication. In his own words, the project was both a success and a failure - an inspiring act of collaboration, goodwill and sheer determination that was at times a struggle against bureaucracy and an experience of personal sacrifice.
Told with honesty, insight and humour, this final instalment offers a reflection on what it means to fight for a cause - win or lose.
Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.
Galatians 6:9
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David was born on the island of Barbados in the West Indies. On his father's side, the family came from Puerto Rico and Denmark, in the middle of the nineteenth century, to settle eventually on the island of Barbados, where they opened a ship chandlery business, Hanschell & Co. On his mother's side, his grandparents had emigrated from the British Isles to western Canada, some of whom had settled in the town of Rothesay in New Brunswick. When he was seven, in 1950, his family moved to Trinidad where he completed his primary education and he attended boarding school in Barbados in 1955.He lived, studied and worked all over Canada for many years. In 1973, finding himself in Scotland (on the way to Wales), decided he had a certain affinity for the place and decided stay, later studying education at Moray House College in Edinburgh. He began his Scottish teaching career in the East End of Glasgow, eventually marrying and coming to teach on the Island of Bute some thirty years ago at North Bute Primary School, Port Bannatyne, Isle of Bute.Prior to Hurricane Ivan's devastation of Grenada in 2004, he had had no direct contact with Grenada. However, as a child in Barbados he was aware of it as being an island of immense variety and appeal.
