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1 online resource (138 pages) : illustrations, photographs |
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Lives, Legacies, Legends ; 10 |
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Lives, legacies, legends ; 10.
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| Summary |
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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Includes bibliographical references |
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English |
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Print version record |
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Sutter, Erika.
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Sutter, Erika
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Sutter, Erika |
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Ophthalmologists -- Switzerland -- Biography
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Ophthalmologists -- South Africa -- Biography
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Anti-apartheid activists -- South Africa -- Biography
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Anti-apartheid activists -- Switzerland -- Biography
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Missionaries, Medical -- South Africa -- Biography
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Missionaries, Medical -- Switzerland -- Biography
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Missions, Medical -- South Africa -- Elim (Limpopo)
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Medical.
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MEDICAL -- Surgery -- General.
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Anti-apartheid activists
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Missionaries, Medical
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Missions, Medical
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Ophthalmologists
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Schweizerin
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Augenärztin
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Gesundheitsfürsorge
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Ländlicher Raum
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Apartheid
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South Africa
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South Africa -- Elim (Limpopo)
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Switzerland
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Südafrika
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Electronic books
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Biographies
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Electronic book
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Ramphele, Mamphela, author of introduction, etc
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Lund, Frances, author of introduction, etc
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Lannen, Anu, translator
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Jenkins, J. M., editor
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Sutter, Erika
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| ISBN |
9783905758474 |
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3905758474 |
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1322502161 |
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9781322502168 |
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3905758334 |
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9783905758337 |
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