Description: Hopeful describes the real life stories of children who were born in a rural poor village in an African country-Uganda. One of them, overcomes the challenges of poverty and cultural barriers with the help of his uneducated parents, who decided to do something that had not been done before; sacrifice everything including selling off their family land, become ridiculed by the villagers but believed, against all hope to send their son to school. Their son, determined to remove shame from his parents, knowing that his only way of ever escaping the cycle of poverty was through education, rose to the challenges from the rural poor villages into the country's Medical schools. The book also tells the story about girls in developing countries and their struggle to get an education. It sheds a light on the cultural and social barriers that the world needs to address, when it comes to the education of the girl child. In the end, the book tells the reader, how the success of one child, challenged and changed the perception about education in this part of the country. But also sheds a light about the real cause of the poor maternal and child health indicators in the developing world-lack of women empowerment through education. Asa Ahimbisibwe is an Obstetrician and Gynecologist in Cambridge Ontario, Canada. He is married and has two sons. He is a reproductive and health advocate for women and girls and an eternal optimist in the power of education to change the gender inequalities which negatively affect women. He is a practicing Christian. He believes that each of us, should honestly look deep into our selves every day and treat other people like we would want to be treated. He is the author of the book 'HOPEFUL' published by Friensenpress.
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EAN: 9781525544118
UPC: 9781525544118
ISBN: 9781525544118
MPN: N/A
Item Length: 21.6 cm
Book Title: Hopeful: A Story of African Childhood Dreams and the Relentless love and sacrifice of Poor Parents to give their children an Education.
Item Height: 216mm
Item Width: 140mm
Author: Asa Ahimbisibwe
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Topic: Memorials, History
Publisher: Friesenpress
Publication Year: 2019
Type: Textbook
Genre: Biographies & True Stories
Item Weight: 422g
Number of Pages: 216 Pages
