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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

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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

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographic references (pages 243-247)

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individual biography

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platesportraitsillustrations

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Mama Maggie

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

883134560

Responsibility statement

Marty Makary and Ellen Vaughn

Sub title

the untold story of one woman's mission to love the forgotten children of Egypt's garbage slums

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

Table Of Contents

An angel in the dark -- Two women in the street -- Choosing to care -- Beginnings -- Garbage people? -- The land beyond time -- Promotion -- Stephen's children -- I can! -- 3:00 a.m. -- Friends everywhere -- Metamorphosis -- "Interior fulfillment" -- The persistent Mr. Qiddees -- "The dead live better than we do" -- Slow going -- Pigs and politics -- The Mama Maggie cup -- The dark side and the light -- God's athletes -- The next generation -- Lives touching lives -- Real love -- Mama Maggie in action: stop! -- Small girls, big dreams -- Flames and forgiveness -- Simple work, with great love -- A note from Marty Makary: beginnings

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Untold story of one woman's mission to love the forgotten children of Egypt's garbage slums

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