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Author Stiehle, Gertrud, 1936- author

Title Erika Sutter : seen with other eyes : memories of a Swiss eye doctor in rural South Africa / told by Gertrud Stiehle ; with a foreword by Mamphela Ramphele and a preface and one chapter by Frances Lund ; translated by Anu Lannen ; edited by J.M. Jenkins
Published Basel, Switzerland : Basler Afrika Bibliographien, [2013]
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Description 1 online resource (138 pages) : illustrations, photographs
Series Lives, Legacies, Legends ; 10
Lives, legacies, legends ; 10
Summary The Swiss ophthalmologist Erika Sutter was born in Basel in 1917. She spent 32 years working in Elim Hospital, founded by the Swiss Mission in an impoverished rural area in North-Eastern South Africa. Together with her African colleague and friend, Selina Maphorogo, she founded the Care Groups, village self-help groups working for better health in their communities. The movement is still active after more than 30 years, and now has around 2,000 members, mostly women, in over 200 villages. Erika Sutter has received numerous international honours and awards for her pioneering work, including the
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Subject Sutter, Erika.
SUBJECT Sutter, Erika
Sutter, Erika fast
Subject Ophthalmologists -- Switzerland -- Biography
Ophthalmologists -- South Africa -- Biography
Anti-apartheid activists -- South Africa -- Biography
Anti-apartheid activists -- Switzerland -- Biography
Missionaries, Medical -- South Africa -- Biography
Missionaries, Medical -- Switzerland -- Biography
Missions, Medical -- South Africa -- Elim (Limpopo)
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Medical.
MEDICAL -- Surgery -- General.
Anti-apartheid activists
Missionaries, Medical
Missions, Medical
Ophthalmologists
Schweizerin
Augenärztin
Gesundheitsfürsorge
Ländlicher Raum
Apartheid
South Africa
South Africa -- Elim (Limpopo)
Switzerland
Südafrika
Genre/Form Biographies
Form Electronic book
Author Ramphele, Mamphela, author of introduction, etc
Lund, Frances, author of introduction, etc
Lannen, Anu, translator
Jenkins, J. M., editor
Sutter, Erika
ISBN 9783905758474
3905758474
1322502161
9781322502168
3905758334
9783905758337
Other Titles Erika Sutter. English
Seen with other eyes : memories of a Swiss eye doctor in rural South Africa