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Author:
Makary, Marty, author.
Title:
Mama Maggie : the untold story of one woman's mission to love the forgotten children of Egypt's garbage slums / Marty Makary and Ellen Vaughn.
Publisher:
Nelson Booksan imprint of Thomas Nelson,
Copyright Date:
2015
Description:
viii, 247 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
Subject:
Gobran, Maggie.
Nuns--Cairo--Cairo--Biography.
Poor children--Cairo.--Cairo.
Poverty--Cairo.--Cairo.
Other Authors:
Vaughn, Ellen Santilli, author.
Notes:
Includes bibliographic references (pages 243-247).
Summary:
Since 1997, Maggie Gobran and her organization Stephen's Children have been changing lives in Cairo's notorious zabala, or garbage slums. Her innovative, transformational work has garnered worldwide fame and multiple Nobel Prize nominations. This book chronicles Mama Maggie's surprising pilgrimage from privileged child to stylish businesswoman to college professor pondering God's call to change.
ISBN:
0718022033
9780718022037
OCLC:
(OCoLC)883134560
Locations:
KSPG296 -- Burlington Public Library (Burlington)
DUPB413 -- Kanawha Public Library (Kanawha)
NVPB663 -- Riceville Public Library (Riceville)
ZOPC437 -- Woodbine Carnegie Public Library (Woodbine)

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