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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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Stiehle, Gertrud, 1936- (Autor)
Otros Autores: Ramphele, Mamphela (Autor de introducción, etc.), Lund, Frances (Autor de introducción, etc.), Lannen, Anu (Traductor), Jenkins, J. M. (Editor ), Sutter, Erika
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Alemán
Publicado: Basel, Switzerland : Basler Afrika Bibliographien, [2013]
Colección:Lives, legacies, legends ; 10.
Temas:
Sutter, Erika.
Sutter, Erika
Ophthalmologists > Switzerland > Biography.
Ophthalmologists > South Africa > Biography.
Anti-apartheid activists > South Africa > Biography.
Anti-apartheid activists > Switzerland > Biography.
Missionaries, Medical > South Africa > Biography.
Missionaries, Medical > Switzerland > Biography.
Missions, Medical > South Africa > Elim (Limpopo)
Ophtalmologistes > Suisse > Biographies.
Ophtalmologistes > Afrique du Sud > Biographies.
Activistes anti-apartheid > Afrique du Sud > Biographies.
Activistes anti-apartheid > Suisse > Biographies.
Médecins missionnaires > Afrique du Sud > Biographies.
Médecins missionnaires > Suisse > Biographies.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Medical.
MEDICAL > Surgery > General.
Anti-apartheid activists
Missionaries, Medical
Missions, Medical
Ophthalmologists
Schweizerin
Augenärztin
Gesundheitsfürsorge
Ländlicher Raum
Apartheid
South Africa
South Africa > Elim (Limpopo)
Switzerland
Südafrika
Biographies
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
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.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (138 pages) : illustrations, photographs
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:9783905758474
3905758474
1322502161
9781322502168
3905758334
9783905758337
ISSN:1660-9638

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