This book primely recorded experience of the authors in a charity of Canada, and interviews with the CEO and other members of the charity.

It is Oakville, the city served by Bill's charity organization, and the richest city in Canada. In the small city, there are still a lot of low-income people who need the help and provision of government authorities and social institutions for their food, clothing, housing and transportation. In this book, the authors expressed such a viewpoint with profound sociological viewpoints:

Whether a country or society is developed does not depend on whether there are poor people, but to effectively think about a reasonable and formulated social medicine to help the poor around oneself effectively.

In developed country Canada, in the richest city Oakville, there is a philanthropist named Bill. He has been involved in philanthropy mergers all his life, gathering the absence of the government, and increasing the society's self-help capabilities.

Bill's story is touching and has spiritual meaning: only by allowing and encouraging social forces to participate in charity can every corner of the sun not shine, and every one is obscured by the aura of "developed country" and "richest city" people and families in need of assistance receive the most basic and most needed assistance.

这本书的出版过程本身，就是一个慈善接力的故事。作者孙兆延和孙兆函，是来加拿大留学的国际学生，他们在中国读小学，在加拿大读初中和高中，对两个国家的国情都有所了解。特别是对于加拿大发达的民间慈善事业，因为参与其中，所以高度认可。

一个偶然的机会，两位青少年作者参与到了一个专门为低收入家庭、特别是单亲妈妈家庭和难民家庭提供帮助的慈善机构之中，这个机构叫safetynet–children and youth charities, 创始人就是本书的主人翁 Bill Shields。在为这家慈善机构的难民小孩提供免费音乐课程的同时，两位年轻作者对Bill有了更加深入的了解，被他的人生故事所打动。他们利用课余时间，对Bill本人和他周边的

人做了一系列深入的采访，这期间还经历了新冠疫情的困扰和阻滞。

加拿大是发达国家，Bill的慈善机构服务的城市，又是加拿大最富裕的城市奥克维尔。在这座最富裕的小城市里，依然存在着为数众多的低收入人群，他们的衣食住行都需要政府和社会机构帮助和提供。在这本书里，两位作者表达了这样的具有深刻社会学意义的观点：

一个国家或社会是否发达，不在于是否有穷人存在，而在于如何设定一个合理而有效的社会动员机制，有效帮扶自己身边的穷人。在发达国家加拿大，在最富裕的城市奥克维尔，有一个叫Bill的慈善家，他终生投入到慈善事业之中，弥补了政府的缺位，增添了社会的自救和自助能力。Bill的故事不仅感人，而且具有启发和象征意义：允许并鼓励社会力量参与慈善事业，才能让每一个阳光照不到角落，每一个被所谓“发达国家”和“富裕城市”光环所遮蔽的、需要救助的人和家庭，得到最基本的、最必要的救助。

本书出售地址：亚马逊书店电子版（英文） 及印刷版（英文）