Mama Maggie
Subtitle: the untold story of one woman's mission to love the forgotten children of Egypt's garbage slums
By: Marty Makary and Ellen Vaughn
Contributors: Vaughn, Ellen Santilli, author
Publisher: Nelson Books, an imprint of Thomas Nelson
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Nashville, Tennessee
Language: eng
Number of pages: 247
ISBN-13: 9780718022037; 9780718036218; 9780718022044
Copyright date: 2015
Subjects: Nuns; Biography; Poor children; Poverty
Other titles: Untold story of one woman's mission to love the forgotten children of Egypt's garbage slums
Description: Since 1997, Maggie Gobran and her organization Stephen's Children have been changing lives in Cairo's notorious zabala, or garbage slums. Her innovative, transformational work has garnered worldwide fame and multiple Nobel Prize nominations. This book chronicles Mama Maggie's surprising pilgrimage from privileged child to stylish businesswoman to college professor pondering God's call to change.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-247).
Table of contents: title: An angel in the dark; title: Two women in the street; title: Choosing to care; title: Beginnings; title: Garbage people?; title: The land beyond time; title: Promotion; title: Stephen's children; title: I can!; title: 3:00 a.m.; title: Friends everywhere; title: Metamorphosis; title: "Interior fulfillment"; title: The persistent Mr. Qiddees; title: "The dead live better than we do"; title: Slow going; title: Pigs and politics; title: The Mama Maggie cup; title: The dark side and the light; title: God's athletes; title: The next generation; title: Lives touching lives; title: Real love; title: Mama Maggie in action: stop!; title: Small girls, big dreams; title: Flames and forgiveness; title: Simple work, with great love; title: A note from Marty Makary: beginnings.