Erika Sutter: Seen with Other Eyes - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Erika Sutter: Seen with Other Eyes write by Gertrud Stiehle. This book was released on 2014-05-02. Erika Sutter: Seen with Other Eyes available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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 award Woman of the Year in 1984 from the South African newspaper The Star, and an honorary doctorate from the University of Basel. For the creation of this biography, Erika Sutter spent many hours with the author, her friend Gertrud Stiehle, telling the story of her long life vividly, with a sharp eye for social issues, a hint of self-irony, and dry wit. Her account does not ignore events in the wider world. She experienced life on the Swiss-German border during the Second World War, and her years of working in South Africa were those when the apartheid policies of the South African Government were becoming more and more repressive, affecting many aspects of life in the country.
Embroiled
Embroiled - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Embroiled write by Caroline Jeannerat. This book was released on 2011. Embroiled available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Apartheid posed profound challenges to the conceptions of humanity and development that dominated the world stage after World War II. Embroiled analyzes the manner in which international religious organizations dealt with the formulation and implementation of apartheid. The book studies this through an examination of the Swiss Mission in South Africa (SMSA), an institution that acted in South Africa, Switzerland, and the international ecumenical community. As a socially embedded institution, the SMSA mirrored divisions present within Swiss and South African societies on the issue of apartheid. *** Embroiled brings out the complex, even turbulent, nature of a missionary society: at once political intermediary, spiritual guide and non-government organisation. Caught between different communities and discrete continents, missionaries discussed and debated their role in South Africa and attempted, however fitfully, to respond to the changes that swept through the country, particularly as opposing nationalisms fought to seize hold of it. ~ From the Preface (Series: Schweizerische Afrikastudien - Etudes africaines suisses - Vol. 9)
Women Marching Into the 21st Century
Women Marching Into the 21st Century - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Women Marching Into the 21st Century write by . This book was released on 2000. Women Marching Into the 21st Century available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. You strike a woman, you strike a rock. On the 44th anniversary of the women's defiance campaign, this book pays tribute to the many women who have shaped the hsitory of South Africa.
Africa Insight
Africa Insight - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Africa Insight write by . This book was released on 1986. Africa Insight available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Community is My University
The Community is My University - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Community is My University write by Selina Maphorogo. This book was released on 2003. The Community is My University available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. As a result of community research and community actions through the engagement of thousands of people organized in Care Groups, trachoma has virtually been eliminated in large parts of the Northern Province of South Africa. In this new book, based on a series of interviews with the main community organizer, Selina Maphorogo, the pitfalls and struggle to achieve successful community participation in health is elaborated. This book is not written from the point of view of the professional, but is the personal account of Selina as a grassroots worker. Her view on the how hospital personnel and other health professionals and administrators deal with community health workers and communities is revealing if not shocking. The book attempts to highlight the communication gap between health providers and the community. Because of the many examples of lessons learned, this book is a must for all those who are engaged in community based health care.
