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Empty Hands is the motivating memoir of Zulu nurse and health-care activist Sister Abegail Ntleko. Growing up poor in a rural town with a daddy who didn't have confidence in educating young ladies, against seemingly insurmountable probabilities Sister Abegail received her nursing level and began work as a community nurse and educator, dedicating her life to those in need. "Her report says us," says Desmond Tutu, who composed the foreword to the publication, "just what a solo person can complete when center and mind interact in the service of others." Overcoming poverty and racism within the apartheid Southern African system, she followed her first child at the same time when it was unusual to take action. And she achieved it over and over. In 40 years she has used and looked after hundreds of children who possessed nothing, saving babies - many of them orphans whose parents perished of Supports - from nursing homes that were willing to give up on them and let them die. Empty Hands details the harshness of Ntleko's circumstances with wit and wisdom in direct, attractively understated prose and can appeal not only to activists and aid staff but to anyone who feels in the power of the real human spirit to rise above suffering and discover peace, pleasure, and purpose.
