Mama Maggie

By Marty Makary

Subjects: Poverty, Biography, Children, egypt, Poor children, Nuns, biography, Egypt, social conditions, Poor, middle east, Nuns

Description: Since 1997, Maggie Gobran and her organization Stephen's Children have been changing lives in Cairo's notorious zabala, or garbage slums. Her innovative, transformational work has garnered worldwide fame and multiple Nobel Prize nominations. This book chronicles Mama Maggie's surprising pilgrimage from privileged child to stylish businesswoman to college professor pondering God's call to change.