Don't Kick Me When I'm Down - Struggling to Survive in the City

Downtown Community Ministry, Wellington, 1995. Good secondhand condition.

Pam Whittington, the community worker for the Downtown Community Ministry of Wellington, tells the storeis of the people with whom she has worked over 15 years. And she pulls no punches as she describes her clients - those with psychiatric problems, the old and lonely, the drug takers and alcoholics, those who sleep in condemned buildings or parks, those who need food parcels so their children can eat.

But this is also a book about hope, about people whose lives have been changed because someone like Pam cared about them, found them help, gave them a second chance.

It is an inspiring book by an inspiring and remarkable woman. It should be read by every Wellingtonian, every New Zealander, who believes in a more just society for all.