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On the streets of Ho Chi Minh City, the destitute children swarm and the rich turn a blind eye. To these needy children "Mama Tina" has become an irrepressible, unorthodox and staunch champion. Within two years of arriving she has opened a Medical and Social Centre and achieved worldwide fame. Bu she berates all those who call her a "Mother Teresa". In her own words she is "one street child using her wiles to help other street children". Christina's story is punctuated by flashes of humour and exurberance that are both her trademark and her means of survival.
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Robert Coram is a former journalist who has been twice nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. He is now a part-time writing instructor at Emory University, Georgia, and writes novels and works of non-fiction.
Christina Noble was born in the Dublin Liberties, shortly after the war. After growing up in severe poverty in Ireland she later moved to England where she was married twice. She has three children from her first marriage. She now runs the Christina Noble Foundation in Vietnam, caring for orphaned street children. She tells of her experiences in Bridge Across My Sorrows and its sequel, Mama Tina.
On the streets of Ho Chi Minh City, the destitute children swarm and the rich turn a blind eye. To these needy children "Mama Tina" has become an irrepressible, unorthodox and staunch champion. Within two years of arriving she has opened a Medical and Social Centre and achieved worldwide fame. Bu she berates all those who call her a "Mother Teresa". In her own words she is "one street child using her wiles to help other street children". Christina's story is punctuated by flashes of humour and exurberance that are both her trademark and her means of survival.
About the Author
Robert Coram is a former journalist who has been twice nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. He is now a part-time writing instructor at Emory University, Georgia, and writes novels and works of non-fiction.
Christina Noble was born in the Dublin Liberties, shortly after the war. After growing up in severe poverty in Ireland she later moved to England where she was married twice. She has three children from her first marriage. She now runs the Christina Noble Foundation in Vietnam, caring for orphaned street children. She tells of her experiences in Bridge Across My Sorrows and its sequel, Mama Tina.
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