There Is No Me Without You: One Woman's Odyssey To Rescue Africa's Children

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2006. A trade paperback copy in fine, unmarked condition.

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When her daughter died while giving birth, Haregewoin sank into a deep, reclusive depression, reatreating from the world and involving herself only in the church. But when the priests brought her two children, AIDS orphans, she took them in, and found a new reason to live as she watched them grow strong, happy and healthy. This was only the beginning. As the AIDS crisis grew, more orphans arrived at the doors of Haregewoin's compound: dying parents brought emaciated children to her, begging for her help. Against common sense, against the limits of her bank account and bedrooms, she did not refuse. In the face of the brutal statistics of the deepening AIDS crisis, Haregewoin expanded her compound, started a school and daycare system and a shelter for sick mothers.

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The author's first two books, PRAYING FOR SHEETROCK and THE TEMPLE BOMBING, were National Book Award finalistsMelissa Faye Greene's New York Times Sunday Magazine piece (December 2002) on the plight of the AIDS orphas inspired many adoptions and generated $75,000 in donations for Africa's orphanagesThis is a timely book, in the wake of the Make Poverty History campaign