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Rising heart

The astonishing tale of a woman determined to turn her trauma into the power for good in the world. Rising Heart is a story that inspires us to be bigger, more courageous, and more generous.

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ISBN	9781760784966 (pbk.)
Classification Number	B CON
Author	Conteh-Biger, Aminata
Title	Rising heart [BK]
Physical Description	illustrations (chiefly colour), portraits, genealogical tables ;
	The astonishing tale of a woman determined to turn her trauma into the power for good in the world. Rising Heart is a story that inspires us to be bigger, more courageous, and more generous.
	One woman's astonishing journey from unimaginable trauma to becoming a power for good. In 1999, Sierra Leone was in the midst of a brutal civil war where mindless violence, vicious amputation and the rape of young enslaved women were the everyday weapons of bloody conflict. It was also where rebel soldiers snatched the young Aminata Conteh-Biger from her father's arms, then held her captive for months. After she was released, the UNHCR recognised that her captors still posed a serious threat to her safety. So, still in her teens, she was put on a plane and flown to Australia to start afresh as a refugee in a land she knew nothing about. It is here that she has proudly built a life, while never allowing her trauma to define her. Yet it was a near-death experience she suffered during the birth of her child that turned her attention to the women of Sierra Leone - where they are 200 times more likely to die while having a baby than in Australia. So she set up the Aminata Maternal Foundation, then returned to the land of her birth to help. This is her story.
Classification	Tertiary/Undergraduate.
	General.
	Conteh-Biger, Aminata
Subject	Aminata Maternal Foundation
	Sierra Leoneans -- Australia -- Biography
	Kidnapping victims -- Sierra Leone
	Rape victims -- Sierra Leone
	Rape as a weapon of war -- Sierra Leone
	Pregnancy -- Complications -- Sierra Leone
	Charity organization -- Sierra Leone
	Refugees
	Women refugees -- Australia -- Biography
	Refugees -- Australia -- Biography
	Autobiographies
	Sierra Leone -- History -- Civil War, 1991-2002 -- Personal narratives
	Australia
Additional Author	Rieden, Juliet

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