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INSPIRATION FOR HOW TO CREATE A LIFE OF PURPOSE, NO WOMAN LEFT BEHIND IS THE UNLIKELY STORY OF HOW ONE WOMAN LEAVES MADISON AVENUE AND TACKLES THE GLOBAL MATERNAL HEALTH CRISIS HEAD ON. The day a woman gives birth is also the day she is most likely to die or suffer severe injury--a sobering reality that comes into sharp focus when Kate Grant visits the Addis Ababa Fistula Hospital in Ethiopia's capital. There, she sees row after row of beds occupied by young women afflicted with obstetric fistula, a childbirth injury that leaves them incontinent and too often shunned by their communities, modern-day lepers. She soon learns that surgery is the only way to end their suffering. In No Woman Left Behind, Grant recounts her decision to abandon a promising advertising career, and the ups and downs of building Silicon Valley-based Fistula Foundation from a modest start-up into the global leader in fistula treatment. Through vivid firsthand accounts of surgeons toiling in remote corners of Africa and Asia, we see inside the fight to restore hope to some of the world's most vulnerable women. A compassionate army of donors spanning nearly 70 countries makes such life-changing care possible. Grant demonstrates the profound power of individual action to change lives at scale, since Fistula Foundation takes no government money. No Woman Left Behind is a compelling personal journey and a how-to guide for anyone looking to make a lasting difference in the lives of others. 100% of the net proceeds received by Fistula Foundation from this audiobook will be made available by the Fistula Foundation to Fistula Foundation.

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""No Woman Left Behind is a stirring story of how a talented social entrepreneur found her true purpose and defied the odds to build an organization that has changed women's lives worldwide. This book will fill you with hope."" -- ""DAVID CALLAHAN, founder and publisher of Inside Philanthropy"" ""No Woman Left Behind is part bildungsroman, expedition diary, and call for action against a terrible affliction...It's a bracing tale in these uneasy times of redemption, for both the afflicted and those committed to their cure, about how to live a life with meaning."" -- ""BROOKE GLADSTONE, host of NPR's On the Media "" ""Grant's book is a call to action for compassionate advocates, and a stunning tale of how deeds triumph over platitudes. No Woman Left Behind is a powerful plea to be our sister's keeper and a guidebook to change the world, one woman at a time."" -- ""DR. DENIS MUKWEGE, founder of Panzi Hospital and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize"" ""If you are passionate about maternal health and care about creating a world where women can thrive in motherhood like I do, this book is for you!"" -- ""CHRISTY TURLINGTON BURNS, founder and president of Every Mother Counts"" ""In No Woman Left Behind, Kate Grant shares her journey of overcoming setbacks and red tape to help women access life-changing fistula surgeries, offering inspiration and insights for anyone determined to make a difference."" -- ""SECRETARY HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON""

""No Woman Left Behind is a stirring story of how a talented social entrepreneur found her true purpose and defied the odds to build an organization that has changed women's lives worldwide. This book will fill you with hope."" -- ""--DAVID CALLAHAN, founder and publisher of Inside Philanthropy"" ""Grant's book is a call to action for compassionate advocates, and a stunning tale of how deeds triumph over platitudes. No Woman Left Behind is a powerful plea to be our sister's keeper and a guidebook to change the world, one woman at a time."" -- -- ""DR. DENIS MUKWEGE, founder of Panzi Hospital and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize"" ""If you are passionate about maternal health and care about creating a world where women can thrive in motherhood like I do, this book is for you!"" -- -- ""CHRISTY TURLINGTON BURNS, founder and president of Every Mother Counts"" ""In No Woman Left Behind, Kate Grant shares her journey of overcoming setbacks and red tape to help women access life-changing fistula surgeries, offering inspiration and insights for anyone determined to make a difference."" -- ""--SECRETARY HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON"" ""No Woman Left Behind is part bildungsroman, expedition diary, and call for action against a terrible affliction. . . . It's a bracing tale in these uneasy times of redemption, for both the afflicted and those committed to their cure, about how to live a life with meaning."" -- ""--BROOKE GLADSTONE, host of NPR's On the Media""

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Abraham Verghese is professor and senior associate chair for the theory and practice of medicine at the Stanford University School of Medicine. He was the founding director of the Center for Medical Humanities and Ethics at the University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, where he is now an adjunct professor. He is the author of My Own Country, a 1994 NBCC Finalist and a Time Best Book of the Year, and The Tennis Partner, a New York Times Notable Book. A graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, he has published essays and short stories that have appeared in the New Yorker, New York Times, Atlantic Monthly, Esquire, Granta, Wall Street Journal, and elsewhere. He lives in Palo Alto, California.

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