Melissa Greene - Africa, AIDS, and Adoption
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Author Melissa Fay Greene discusses the role of adoption in relieving the effects of Africa's ongoing AIDS epidemic.
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Melissa Fay Greene talks about "There Is No Me Without You: One Woman's Odyssey to Rescue Africa's Children."
This volume is the story of Haregewoin Tefarra, a middle-aged Ethiopian woman of modest means whose home has become a refuge for hundreds of children orphaned by AIDS. Today, Haregewoin runs a school, a day-care system and a shelter for sick mothers.
Greene, a regular contributor to The New York Times Magazine and Good Housekeeping, has written for The New Yorker, Life, Newsweek, The Atlantic, Readers Digest, Ms., The Wilson Quarterly, Redbook, and Salon.com.