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Author Ntleko, Abegail, Sister, author.

Title Empty hands, a memoir : one woman's journey to save children orphaned by AIDS in South Africa / Sister Abegail Ntleko ; foreword by Desmond Tutu ; afterword by Kittisaro and Thanissara.

Publication Info. Berkeley, California : North Atlantic Books, [2015]

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Location Call No. Status
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  B NTLEKO, A.    Check Shelf
 Simsbury Public Library - Biographies  BIOG NTLEKO, ABEGAIL    Check Shelf
Description xii, 125 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits, plates ; 21 cm
Contents Legs to stand -- Wings to fly -- Hands to hold -- The AIDS crisis -- Hope and raising up -- Rewards -- Transitions -- Empty hands.
Summary "Now 79 years old, Sister Abegail looks back over her life and recounts the remarkable events that led to her becoming the mother of dozens of children orphaned by the AIDS crisis in South Africa"--Provided by publisher.
Subject Ntleko, Abegail, Sister.
Nurses -- South Africa -- Biography.
AIDS (Disease) -- South Africa.
Orphans -- South Africa.
Orphanages -- South Africa.
Adoption -- South Africa.
Ntleko, Abegail, Sister.
Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome -- history -- South Africa.
HIV Infections -- history -- South Africa.
Nurses -- South Africa -- Autobiography.
Adoption -- South Africa.
Child, Orphaned -- South Africa.
History, 20th Century -- South Africa.
History, 21st Century -- South Africa.
Genre/Form Autobiographies.
Added Author Society for the Study of Native Arts and Sciences, sponsoring body.
ISBN 9781583949320 (paperback)
1583949321 (paperback)
9781583949337 (E-book)
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