Erika Sutter: Seen with Other Eyes : Memories of a Swiss Eye Doctor in Rural South Africa /
The Swiss ophthalmologist Erika Sutter was born in Basel in 1917. She spent 32 years working in Elim Hospital, founded by the Swiss Mission in an impoverished rural area in North-Eastern South Africa. Together with her African colleague and friend, Selina Maphorogo, she founded the Care Groups, vill...
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés Alemán |
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Basel, Switzerland :
Basler Afrika Bibliographien,
[2013]
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | The Swiss ophthalmologist Erika Sutter was born in Basel in 1917. She spent 32 years working in Elim Hospital, founded by the Swiss Mission in an impoverished rural area in North-Eastern South Africa. Together with her African colleague and friend, Selina Maphorogo, she founded the Care Groups, village self-help groups working for better health in their communities. The movement is still active after more than 30 years, and now has around 2,000 members, mostly women, in over 200 villages. Erika Sutter has received numerous international honours and awards for her pioneering work, including the. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (136 pages): illustrations, photographs |
ISBN: | 9783905758474 |