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The nurse who moved mountains!

Read the story of the Red Cross nurse who inspired Live Aid in 1985. Apart from Ethiopia, she's worked in places like Afghanistan, Sudan, Uganda and Lebanon. Amidst incredible human suffering she's helped people on a large scale, always doing a little more than required. Usually a lot more, actually. Claire Bertschinger made a difference, even if it meant moving mountains in the process.

Mountains in Afghanistan available at Allposters

“A mixture of love, fear and humour.”

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Why I like it!

This book is really worth reading. I just couldn't put it down! It's refreshing to read the story of a woman who doesn't claim to be superhuman, even if what she accomplishes is reallly super. She also gets affected by the world around her, and she has seen a lot more than most of us. Despite this she continues doing good, not giving up.
Claire Bertschinger has worked as a Red Cross nurse in several countries, often under constant danger to her life. She relates how friendship grows between the most unlikely individuals, and how, eventually, she had to deal with the emotions brought on by the suffering she had witnessed.

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Moving Mountains

Moving Mountains

by: Claire Bertschinger

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More on the Red Cross

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March is American Red Cross Month

Some useful links about the Red Cross

American Red Cross
Find your local Red Cross Committee, list of courses available, and other ways of volunteering.
International Committee of the Red Cross
See where the Red Cross is active in the world. How are they able to work in warzones. What is their policy?
New Zealand Red Cross
Not only active in NZ, but all over the world. See what they have been doing in Christchurch after the earthquake.
Nobelprize
The Red Cross and the Nobel Peace Prize
Canadian Red Cross
The Canadian Red Cross
The British Red Cross
The Red Cross in the UK

A glimpse of reality.

"This was clearly the ultimate honour. They wanted to give their precious secret stash of chocolate to me. I had to eat it and as I did, I felt awful, knowing that whie this was a prize to them to me it was something I could get any time I wanted from a market stall in town. But I was profoundly touched too. I was reminded that it's not the size or the cost of the gift that matters but the reason for it and the way in which it is given."

Mountains of Tigray, Ethiopia

She worked in this province

Spectacular Gheralta Mountains of Northern Ethiopia Dwarf Tigray Homesteads on Hawzien Plain



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Bob Geldof and Live Aid

Live Aid was a co-ordinated concert across the world, to raise money for the victims of a terrbile starvation in Ethiopia. It was one of the largest-scale satellite link-ups and television broadcasts of all time: an estimated 2 billion viewers, across 60 countries, watched the live broadcast.
The event managed to raise about $284 million!!
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Band Aid 1984

Do they know it's Christmas?

This single was released in November 1984, to raise money for the famine in Ethiopia. It sold 1 million copies- the first week!
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Famine in Ethiopia

Ethiopia was one of her first assignments, and her experience during the famine there affected her whole life.
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How to help

There are many different ways to help needy people today. Some of us can go personally to different countries and help. Another way is to organize help from wherever we live. Still others donate money, clothes, medicine or whatever is needed. Some people have donated a cow, through this programme. A cow will make a big difference in a poor family's life. Everything is valuable, even the dung is used for fuel!

SEND A COW

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ICRC

The Red Cross has done and is doing a lot of good all over the world. Here are some related products.

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This sounds like a book for me!

FreshStart7 says:

This was a good book to bring to readers' attention Mujjen. I myself have never heard of this nurse.

TenerifeLowcostholidays says:

Sounds inspiring, my next book to read is sorted!

smithlights says:

I'd love to read it! Maybe I'll stop by the library tomorrow...

sousababy says:

Absolutely, love to know more about this nurse.

GramaBarb says:

A book for my wish list. I love stories like this too!

faffe says:

Amazing book! Now you absolutely made me interesting! Thanks.

No, I don't like this kind of books.

karmicchristian says:

Sounds very interesting. My genre of reading though is slightly different non-fiction. Thanks for the wonderful lens.

Tipi says:

If I had more time to read books, this would be one that I would like to read some day. Claire may not have had superhuman strength, but she may have had supernatural strength to keep her doing to what she has been called to do.

 

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