Large numbers of people migrate to South Africa through war-torn and hostile territories. Of Loss, Hope and Healing is an autobiographical account of a woman whose job it is to reconnect family members displaced by violence and famine in Africa as part of the Red Cross Family Links Programme. The author's work situation is fraught with the emotional trauma of people who were driven from their countries of origin by wars and other human tragedies. Cut off from their family members, they desperately seek help in finding them ...
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Large numbers of people migrate to South Africa through war-torn and hostile territories. Of Loss, Hope and Healing is an autobiographical account of a woman whose job it is to reconnect family members displaced by violence and famine in Africa as part of the Red Cross Family Links Programme. The author's work situation is fraught with the emotional trauma of people who were driven from their countries of origin by wars and other human tragedies. Cut off from their family members, they desperately seek help in finding them whilst trying to make a new life in a new country beset with threats, uncertainties and xenophobia. The title also tells of the author's troubled relationship with her mother and her feelings of displacement as she tries to uncover layers of repressed emotions that make it impossible for her to see herself as she really is. Written with unflinching honesty and integrity, this is a moving account of personal and human triumph over inhuman adversity.
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