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Strength in What Remains by Tracy Kidder

Tracy Kidder writes about an exceptional young man who escaped the horrors of genocide in Burundi and Rwanda in 1993 and 1994 only to spend the next ten years working hard to pick up where his life left off and return to make his home in Burundi a better place. Deo was a third year [...]

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Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy Kidder

I stumbled across Mountains Beyond Mountains at the local used book store and after reading the back of it, thought it sounded interesting.  This story is more than that.  It tells the true story of Dr. Paul Farmer who created a foundation called Partners In Health, started a hospital/health care facility in rural Haiti, and [...]

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