Keeping hope alive
Subtitle: one woman: 90,000 lives changed
By: Hawa Abdi ; with Sarah J. Robbins
Contributors: Robbins, Sarah J.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Grand Central Pub.; Grand Central Publishing; Little, Brown Book Group
Published: 2013
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 246
ISBN-13: 9781455503766; 9781619696389; 9781844087884
Subjects: Human rights workers; Women gynecologists; Women human rights workers; Biography; Gynecologists
Description: "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.
Table of contents: title: Keeping hope alive; title: A stranger in my homeland; title: Gold is made beautiful by fire; title: To stop the bleeding; title: Paradise in the world; title: Friends and enemies; title: Awaiting a life, awaiting a death; title: Filling the hole in my heart; title: Losing my past and my future; title: Building my practice; title: My sisters return; title: Necessity is the mother of invention; title: Collapse; title: Why do you want to do this?; title: Danger from within; title: Today we are happy; title: Operation Restore Hope; title: One wrong decision; title: The fourth container; title: Vice Minister of Labor and Sports; title: We can remember; title: Ahmed; title: "A doctor bound by humanity"; title: An ocean of need; title: A new generation; title: The attack; title: Women of the year; title: Forgiveness.