Vula Bevalile (new edition)
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Vula Bevalile: Letters from a Young Doctor is a collection of vignettes written over several years by Australian doctor Maithri Goonetilleke. Read more
"This book calls on us to think again, to ask ourselves what we are doing in our own lives and why." |
Vula Bevalile: Letters from a Young Doctor is a collection of vignettes written over several years by Australian doctor Maithri Goonetilleke, who has been contributing his time voluntarily in Swaziland—a country devastated by extreme poverty and the HIV and AIDS epidemic.
Vula Bevalile takes the reader on an incredible journey across a landscape of extreme adversity and medical and economic hardship. But it is the final, overwhelming sense of humanity that is most striking and empowering. The ultimate outcome is a profound understanding of a people with enormous resilience, pride, humility, and courage. With a foreword by internationally acclaimed author and motivational speaker Wayne Dyer, this second edition also includes two new stories from Maithri Goonetilleke's most recent trip to Swaziland. |
"In beautifully limpid and pared-back prose, Maithri Goonetilleke distils his experiences in Swaziland .... Words such as "uplifting" and "profound" cannot begin to capture the quiet potency of the stories he tells about the people he works with and treats." |
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MAITHRI GOONETILLEKE is a medical doctor and former executive director of Possible Dreams International. He came to Australia from Sri Lanka with his parents at an early age. He studied medicine at the University of Melbourne and has worked throughout Australia as both a general medical and emergency registrar—running sole-doctor emergency departments in rural areas, and working in Indigenous communities and in correctional institutions. In Swaziland, through his work with Possible Dreams International, he provides emergency medical relief to those living with HIV/AIDS, malnutrition, and extreme poverty, as well as providing sustainable development solutions such as access to clean water, agriculture, income generation, and housing. When not in Swaziland or working in rural Australia, he resides in Melbourne.
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PRODUCT INFO
ISBN: 9781921325267
Genre: Non-fiction
Size: 146 x 218 mm
Format: Hardback, 152 pages
Release: April 2014
Rights: World
ISBN: 9781921325267
Genre: Non-fiction
Size: 146 x 218 mm
Format: Hardback, 152 pages
Release: April 2014
Rights: World
