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Footprints in the Dust
Footprints in the Dust: Nursing, Survival, Compassion, and Hope with Refugees Around the World | Roberta Gately
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Roberta Gately is a nurse and humanitarian aid worker who has served in war zones ranging from Africa to Afghanistan aiding refugees. Just the word refugee sparks conversation and fuel emotion. There are more than twenty-two million refugees worldwide and another sixty-five million who have been forcibly displaced. But who are these people? Images filter into our consciousness via dramatic photographs--but these photos only offer a glimpse into their stories. Footprints in the Dust aims to share the real stories of refugees around the world in hopes of revealing the truth about their experience.As a young ER nurse in Boston, Roberta was stopped cold by stark images of big-bellied babies with empty haunting stares in the news. She called the aid organization featured in the news story and within two months, she was on her way. Roberta would soon learn that world into which millions of children around the globe were born was fraught with unspeakable horrors. The only certainties for so many of these children were, and remain to this day--disease and devastating injury.Footprints in the Dust reveals the humanity behind the headlines, beginning where the newscasters end their reports. The people we meet within this riveting book are neither all saints nor all sinners--and impossible to forget.
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"It is my hope that once you‘ve read these pages, those footprints will linger in your thoughts and remain there— tiny, precious pearls that help to remind us that we are all more alike than we know, that whatever separates us , we are ultimately joined by the common thread of humanity." (From ARC subject to change in final edit).

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