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Title:
Keeping hope alive : one woman: 90,000 lives changed / Hawa Abdi ; with Sarah J. Robbins.
Author:
Hawa Abdi, 1947-

Robbins, Sarah J.
Publication Information:
New York, NY : Grand Central Pub., 2013.
Call Number:
CT2208 .H39 A3 2013
Abstract:
"The ... memoir of one brave woman who, along with her daughters, has kept tens of thousands of her fellow Somali citizens safe, healthy, and educated for more than twenty years"--Dust jacket flap.
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Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9781455503766

9781844087884
Physical Description:
xvii, 246 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), map ; 22 cm
Contents:
Keeping hope alive -- A stranger in my homeland -- Gold is made beautiful by fire -- To stop the bleeding -- Paradise in the world -- Friends and enemies -- Awaiting a life, awaiting a death -- Filling the hole in my heart -- Losing my past and my future -- Building my practice -- My sisters return -- Necessity is the mother of invention -- Collapse -- Why do you want to do this? -- Danger from within -- Today we are happy -- Operation Restore Hope -- One wrong decision -- The fourth container -- Vice Minister of Labor and Sports -- We can remember -- Ahmed -- "A doctor bound by humanity" -- An ocean of need -- A new generation -- The attack -- Women of the year -- Forgiveness.
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