Children of South America

Chapter 3: FOREWORD

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About This Book

Aimed at young readers, this volume opens with a geographic overview of the continent and proceeds through region-by-region sketches of children's lives across Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina, Tierra del Fuego, Chile, Bolivia, and Peru. Each chapter depicts climate, landscape, local customs, family life, and the material hardships that shape childhood, interweaving accounts of Indigenous and mixed communities and the effects of colonization and economic exploitation. The narrative emphasizes missionary and Christian efforts to alleviate suffering, describes schools and local initiatives, and includes color illustrations to accompany concise, descriptive portraits of daily routines and needs.

FOREWORD

My dear Young Friends,

This little book has been written expressly for you, to whom South America is an entirely new field. On this account I feel it is necessary to devote Chapter I. to the continent itself before proceeding to acquaint you with its youthful inhabitants.

I tender my grateful thanks to the South American Missionary Society, the Evangelical Union of South America, the Inland-South America Missionary Union, and the Bolivian Indian Mission for the help their publications have afforded me in trying to place before you something of the sorrows and intense need of South American childhood.

Yours, for South America,
(Mrs) KATHARINE A. HODGE

November 1915