Makary, Marty
Mama Maggie the untold story of one woman's mission to love the forgotten children of Egypt's garbage slums / Untold story of one woman's mission to love the forgotten children of Egypt's garbage slums Marty Makary and Ellen Vaughn. - Nashville, Tennessee Nelson Books, an imprint of Thomas Nelson 2015 - viii, 247 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-247).
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.
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.
9780718022037 0718022033
2014959182
Gobran, Maggie.
Nuns--Egypt--Cairo--Biography.
Poor children--Egypt--Cairo.
Poverty--Egypt--Cairo.
BX139.G63 / Z35 2015
305.4 Mak 9
Mama Maggie the untold story of one woman's mission to love the forgotten children of Egypt's garbage slums / Untold story of one woman's mission to love the forgotten children of Egypt's garbage slums Marty Makary and Ellen Vaughn. - Nashville, Tennessee Nelson Books, an imprint of Thomas Nelson 2015 - viii, 247 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-247).
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.
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.
9780718022037 0718022033
2014959182
Gobran, Maggie.
Nuns--Egypt--Cairo--Biography.
Poor children--Egypt--Cairo.
Poverty--Egypt--Cairo.
BX139.G63 / Z35 2015
305.4 Mak 9