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1 online resource (138 pages) : illustrations, photographs. |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Lives, Legacies, Legends ; 10
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Lives, legacies, legends ; 10.
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Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
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. |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
Sutter, Erika.
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Sutter, Erika. |
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Ophthalmologists -- Switzerland -- Biography.
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Ophthalmologists. |
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Switzerland. |
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Biographies.
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Ophthalmologists -- South Africa -- Biography.
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South Africa. |
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Anti-apartheid activists -- South Africa -- Biography.
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Anti-apartheid activists. |
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Anti-apartheid activists -- Switzerland -- Biography.
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Missionaries, Medical -- South Africa -- Biography.
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Missionaries, Medical. |
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Missionaries, Medical -- Switzerland -- Biography.
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Missions, Medical -- South Africa -- Elim (Limpopo)
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Missions, Medical. |
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South Africa -- Elim (Limpopo) |
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Electronic books.
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Biographies.
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Added Author |
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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Added Title |
Erika Sutter. English
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Other Form: |
Print version: Erika Sutter : seen with other eyes : memories of a Swiss eye doctor in rural South Africa. Basel, Switzerland : Basler Afrika Bibliographien, ©2013 ix, 124 pages Lives, legacies, legends ; 10 1660-9638 9783905758337 |
ISBN |
9783905758474 (e-book) |
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3905758474 (e-book) |
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1322502161 |
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9781322502168 |
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9783905758337 |
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