false 119729 8 <div><div><i>There Is No Me Without You</i> 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 middle-class woman with a happy family life, Haregewoin fell into a deep depression after the death of her recently married daughter. But then a priest brought her two children, AIDS orphans, with nowhere to go. Unexpectedly, the children thrived, and Haregewoin found herself drawn back into daily life. As word got out, an endless stream of children began to arrive at her door, delivered by dying parents and other relatives who begged for her help, and, pushing against the limits of her home and bank account, she took more and more in. Today, Haregewoin runs a school, a daycare system, and a shelter for sick mothers. Without medication for her charges&#8212;some HIV-positive, some uninfected, and some infants trying to fight off the virus, but almost all of whom come to her terrified and malnourished&#8212;she forges on, caring for as many as she can handle. Increasingly, she also places them for adoption with families like that of journalist Melissa Fay Greene, who has two children adopted from Ethiopia. In Haregewoin Tefarra&#8217;s story, Greene gives us an astonishing portrait of a woman fighting a continent-wide epidemic.</div></div> 115276 5 9 2006 There Is No Me Without You: One Woman's Odyssey to Rescue Africa's Children total:481|5:266|4:164|3:44|2:6|1:1| 481 2131 832 146 5 3 false false Tue Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Mar 05 11:10:20 -0800 2008 Sat May 10 19:50:50 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 1 false false Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Tue Jan 01 20:01:29 -0800 2008 Tue Jan 01 20:25:28 -0800 2008 This isn't just a really good book.
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