| Kuponya: Healing in the Heart of Africa Contributor(s): Macguire, Henrietta Boggs (Author), Faulk, Katie (Photographer), Figueres, Muni (Foreword by) |
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ISBN: 0982852886 ISBN-13: 9780982852880 Publisher: Mockingbird Publishing OUR PRICE: $20.95 Product Type: Paperback Published: December 2012 * Not available - Not in print at this time * |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Travel | Africa - Kenya - Social Science | Philanthropy & Charity |
| Physical Information: 0.2" H x 8.5" W x 8.5" (0.34 lbs) 76 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - African - Cultural Region - East Africa |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Three generations from one remarkable family--a former first lady of Costa Rica, her daughter the ambassador, and her Swiss-educated, pediatrician granddaughter--travel to Kenya to support the work of not-for-profit organization Kenya Relief. They bring along a photographer to document their journey, a young women and relative stranger. Their shared expedition takes them to places of dire human poverty juxtaposed with the incredible beauty of the natural world, and they see first-hand what changes a singular sense of purpose can achieve. By the end of their time in Africa, the four women discover that their efforts to heal others have brought about an unexpected healing of their own. All proceeds from Kuponya will be donated to Kenya Relief (kenyarelief.org), a not-for-profit organization dedicated to providing medical care, education, and housing to Kenya's neediest children and families. |
Contributor Bio(s): Macguire, Henrietta Boggs: - Henrietta Boggs MacGuire is a Costa Rican-American author, journalist, and activist. She was the first wife of José Figueres Ferrer and served as first lady of Costa Rica from 1948-1949 in the years immediately following the Costa Rican Civil War, the subject of the documentary _First Lady of the Revolution_. She lives in her native Alabama, where she recently celebrated her 100th birthday.Figueres, Muni: - Ambassador Muni Figueres was appointed ambassador of Costa Rica to the United States in September 2010. Figueres has extensive experience in the politics of trade policy and trade negotiations as instruments of development. Previously, Figueres was the external relations advisor at the Inter-American Development (IDB) from 1992 to 2001 and headed the Trade and Integration Division at IDB from 1990 to 1992. Prior to that, she was appointed special presidential trade representative in Washington, D.C. from 1988 to 1990 for Costa Rica's support toward U.S. congressional approval of the Caribbean Basin Initiative. Figueres also served as the minister of foreign trade from 1986 to 1988 and director general of the Costa Rican government's trade diversification strategy at the Investment and Trade Promotion Agency from 1982 to 1986. She served on a number of boards between 2001 and 2010, among which include IDT Telecom, Inc.; LASPAU (academic graduate level exchange programs affiliated with Harvard University); International Executive Service Corps (support to SME's on a global scale); International Social Services, and the International Advisory Board of the Council of the Americas. Figueres holds a master's degree in political science from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México and a B.A. from the City College of New York. |