Sandra Uwiringiyimana, Abigail Pesta

How Dare the Sun Rise (eBook, ePUB)

Memoirs of a War Child

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Sandra Uwiringiyimana was ten years old when she found herself with a gun pointed at her head. The rebels had come at nightwielding weapons, torches, and machetes. She had watched as her mother and six-year-old sister were gunned down in a refugee camp, far from their home in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The rebels were killing people who weren't from the same tribe.

Good-bye, life, she said to the man ready to shoot her.

Remarkably, the rebel didn't pull the trigger, and Sandra escaped into the night.

Thus began a new life for her and her surviving family members. With no home and no money, they struggled to stay alive. Eventually, through a United Nations refugee program, they moved to America, only to face yet another ethnic disconnect. Sandra may have crossed an ocean, but there was now a much wider divide she had to overcome. And it started with middle school in New York.

In this profoundly moving memoir, Sandra tells the inspiring story of her survival, of finding her place in a new country, and of her hope for the future. How Dare the Sun Rise shows the unrelenting strength of one incredible young woman and her family, unveiling how she found a way to give voice to her people and begin the path to healing through art and activism.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: HarperCollins
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Altersempfehlung: ab 13 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Mai 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780062470164
• Artikelnr.: 47110192

Autorenporträt

Sandra Uwiringiyimana is co-founder and director of partnerships and communications at Jimbere Fund, an organization that aims to revitalize distressed communities in Congo by investing in women. Since her family's resettlement in 2007, Sandra has fought hard to call for justice for the Gatumba massacre and has become a voice for women and girls, refugees and immigrants, and forgotten people like the Banyamulenge Tribe. In telling her story, Sandra has shared the world stage with Angelina Jolie, Hillary Clinton, and Tina Brown at the Women in the World Summit. She addressed the United Nations Security Council at the request of Ambassador Samantha Power to plead with world leaders to act on the pressing issue of children in armed conflict. Sandra is finishing her studies in New York City.