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Powered by love : a grandmothers' movement to end AIDS in Africa  Cover Image Book Book

Powered by love : a grandmothers' movement to end AIDS in Africa / Joanna Henry with Ilana Landsberg-Lewis ; edited by Michele Landsberg ; photographs by Alexis MacDonald.

Henry, Joanna, 1974- (author.). Landsberg-Lewis, Ilana, (author.). Landsberg, Michele, (editor.). MacDonald, Alexis, (photographer.).

Summary:

"By the time the AIDS pandemic in Africa had reached its height in the early 2000s, millions of children had been orphaned. In the face of overwhelming loss, the grandmothers of Africa stepped in to hold families and communities together. Author Joanna Henry and photographer Alexis MacDonald visited eight African countries, interviewing and photographing hundreds of grandmothers (including Sarah Obama, Barack Obama's grandmother) who are reclaiming hope and resurrecting lives. The extraordinary images and stories of resourceful women fighting for a better future make Powered by Love an inspiration for everyone. Writes journalist-social activist Michele Landsberg, "We thought we knew what was happening in Africa when the AIDS pandemic raged across the continent, sweeping away 35 million lives. But we never knew it the way this book reveals it, in the shockingly intimate voices of the grandmothers who had to save the abandoned children when no one else was left alive. These voices will leap straight into your heart. Their unguarded faces, in portraits that glow with character, pain and humour, will captivate you." In 2006, the Stephen Lewis Foundation launched a campaign to engage Canadian grandmothers to support their African sisters. The Grandmothers Campaign, now a movement 10,000 strong, has raised over $25 million that has gone directly into the hands of African grandmothers and their grassroots organizations. Powered by Love joins this campaign by telling the story of these indomitable women and by directing all royalties from the sale of the book to African grandmothers raising children orphaned by AIDS."--Provided by the publisher.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781773100210 (paperback) :
  • Physical Description: 296 pages : colour illustrations ; 25 cm
  • Publisher: Fredericton, New Brunswick : Goose Lane Editions, 2017.
Subject: Grandmothers > Africa > Portraits.
Grandmothers > Africa > Biography.
AIDS activists > Africa > Portraits.
AIDS (Disease) > Africa.

Available copies

  • 5 of 5 copies available at BC Interlibrary Connect.
  • 1 of 1 copy available at Salmo Public Library. (Show)

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  • 0 current holds with 5 total copies.
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Salmo Public Library 306.874 HEN (Text) 35163000149067 Adult Non Fiction Volume hold Available -
Beaver Valley Public Library 306.874 HEN (Text) 35144000179262 Non-Fiction Volume hold Available -
Fort St. James Public Library 306.8745 HEN (Text) 35196000262191 Adult Non-Fiction Volume hold Available -
Invermere Public Library 306.874 POW (Text) IPL054065 Adult Non Fiction Volume hold Available -
Trail and District Public Library Main Branch 306.874 HEN (Text) 35110001159462 Adult Non-Fiction Volume hold Available -


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