December 11, 2012 - at Guelph
By: Teresa Pitman
Political scientist looks at faith-based NGOs
Andrea Paras was still an undergrad when she headed to Bosnia to volunteer for a month. It was only five years after the country had been torn apart by war, and she says “it still looked like a war zone. There were ruined, bombed-out buildings and people scarred and permanently injured from the attacks.” It was a big change for Paras, who had grown up in Williams Lake in British Columbia’s interior.