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This Is Paradise - An Irish Mother's Grief, an African Village's Plight and the Medical Clinic That Brought Fresh Hope to Both (Paperback)
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This Is Paradise - An Irish Mother's Grief, an African Village's Plight and the Medical Clinic That Brought Fresh Hope to Both (Paperback)
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Loot Price R545
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Your brakes fail and your car plunges from a pier into a
February-frigid harbor. You are thrown to safety but your
four-month old daughter, trapped in her car seat, drowns. Four
years after that horror, you return from a trip to the shore and
lift your four-month-old son from his carrier only to realize he's
dead, too, a victim of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome. Twenty-two
years later, your 25-year old son drowns while swimming in a
Malawi, Africa lake. How do you survive that first death, never
mind the second, or the third? Ask Mags Riordan of County Kerry,
Ireland. Only the blessing of her son Billy, the boy who later
drowned, carried Mags through those first two deaths. Her reaction
to Billy's loss caused Mags to do something beyond simple survival,
though - it caused her to do something transformative, and
remarkable. Returning to Malawi on the one-year anniversary of
Billy's death, she saved the life of a local boy who would
otherwise have died from a simple infection, and realized the
desperate need for a medical clinic. With virtually no relevant
experience, medical or otherwise, Mags founded a clinic that to
date has saved and transformed the lives of tens of thousands of
Malawians. If any of us wonders "What can one person do?" we need
only look to Mags Riordan as a living, breathing example of someone
who put aside her despair, and her comfort zone, in an effort to
help and heal, proving the world truly can be changed, even by just
two hands, and one single broken heart.
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