On That Day, Everybody Ate One Woman's Story of Hope and Possibility in Haiti-- with Post-Earthquake Update

Name: On That Day, Everybody Ate One Woman's Story of Hope and Possibility in Haiti-- with Post-Earthquake Update
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ISBN: 9780977333899

ISBN-10: 0977333892

ISBN-13: 9780977333899

Edition: N/A

Authors: Margaret Trost, Paul Farmer

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Margaret Trost was in her 30s when her husband died suddenly of asthma, leaving her to raise their young son alone. In despair, seeking meaning in her life and in her husband's death, she accepted an invitation to visit Haiti as part of a pilgrimage of reverse mission, to serve the poor as a means to transform the providers. This is a moving account of her immersion in the West's most impoverished nation. Gently and viscerally, Trost describes her experiences in a hospice and in the horrific slums of Cit Soleil. As she struggles to make sense of such extreme conditions existing so near the US, readers discover with her the healing power of reaching out. In the process, we meet and come to…

Book details

List price: $15.00
Publisher: Koa Books, Incorporated
Publication date: 9/15/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 168
Size: 5.25" wide x 8.50" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.440
Language: English

Margaret Trost is the founder and director of the What If? Foundation, which serves 5,000 meals a week to Haiti's children, offers scholarships and a summer camp. A home-based business entrepreneur and former public television associate producer, she devotes her time to raising awareness and resources to fund food and education programs for impoverished children in Haiti. She lives in North...