An edition of Mama Maggie (2015)

Mama Maggie

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

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An edition of Mama Maggie (2015)

Mama Maggie

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

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.

Publish Date
Language
English
Pages
247

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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.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-247).

Published in
Nashville, Tennessee
Other Titles
Untold story of one woman's mission to love the forgotten children of Egypt's garbage slums
Copyright Date
2015

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
305.4
Library of Congress
BX139.G63 Z35 2015, MLCM 2018/41611 (B)

The Physical Object

Pagination
viii, 247 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates
Number of pages
247

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL32123373M
Internet Archive
mamamaggieuntold0000maka
ISBN 10
0718022033, 0718036212
ISBN 13
9780718022037, 9780718036218, 9780718022044
LCCN
2014959182
OCLC/WorldCat
883134560

Work Identifiers

Work ID
OL24284345W

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