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

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

by Melissa Fay Greene

There Is No Me Without You is the story of Haregewoin Tefarra, a middle-aged Ethiopian woman of modest means whose home has become a refuge for hundreds of children orphaned by AIDS. It is a story as much about the power of the bond between children and parents as about the epidemic that every year leaves millions of children, mostly healthy themselves, without family. Originally a... (read more)

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Tenia F said: Haregewoin Teferra was a middle class life in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia that is until her husband and eldest daughter died. She lived in a state of depression until a priest delivered to her an orphaned child then another. It didn't take long until parents, aunts, uncles, and neighbors heard about her and started delivering orphaned or soon to be orphaned children due to the AIDS crisis to her. At first, never being able to turn away a child, she became overwhelmed and could not...

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  • Chris N

    chris n said:

    What a wonderful example Haregewoin sets for us to follow. If each of us cared enough for our neighbor as she does, our world would be a place of peace and goodwill.

    posted Saturday, June 21 2008
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