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On The Path With Heart, In Africa with Habitat for Humanity International Book Summary and Study Guide

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This is the story of a 58 year-old widow's adventures over the five years she spent in Africa, as the low-cost housing mission, Habitat for Humanity International's Africa/Middle East correspondent. Grey finds stories everywhere; among leprosy survivors in Uganda who are becoming part of a community for the first time in years, with orphan head of households in Burundi who are beginning life over after a brutal civil war, and on the road in Botswana when her truck breaks down. Then there is the one about the mother-in-law who climbs into bed with her one night in Uganda.
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Africans running Habitat programs in their communities in Uganda, Zimbabwe, and Kenya teach Grey about their culture, she finds a lot in common with a South African widow during the night she spends inside a former black township and in Kenya she learns that it's malaria that kills most Africans and elephants that African women fear most. What did Grey fear most in Africa? "Anything on four wheels."





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Plot & Themes

Ethnic/Relig. of subject (inside)    -   African Black Ethnic/regional/gender    -   Yes Period of greatest activity?    -   1950+

Subject of Biography

Gender    -   Female Profession/status:    -   journalist Ethnicity    -   White Nationality    -   American

Setting

How much descriptions of surroundings?    -   5 () Africa    -   Yes Kind of Africa:    -   Black Africa Century:    -   1980's-Present

Writing Style

Book makes you feel?    -   encouraged    -   like laughing If this is a kid's book:    -   Age 16-Adult How much dialogue in bio?    -   roughly even amounts of descript and dialog

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