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| Other authors / contributors: | Ramphele, Mamphela, author of introduction, etc.
Lund, Frances, author of introduction, etc.
Lannen, Anu, translator.
Jenkins, J. M., editor.
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| ISBN: | 9783905758474
3905758474
1322502161
9781322502168
3905758334
9783905758337
9783905758334
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references.
English.
Print version record.
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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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| 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
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