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| Biographies About the Biographies collection
Biographies are found in the Biographies-General Magazine lounge on the 1st floor of the Central Library, between the Children's Zone and Fiction and Literature Zone.
The Biographies collection contains a select assortment of recent titles on popular, topical and historical people. Books on New Zealanders are shelved separately at the end of the main sequence.
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Mama Jude : an Australian nurses's extraordinary other life in Africa by Judy Steel
Despite plans to enjoy her retirement after working as a nurse for over three decades, Judy Steel found herself in Uganda at the age of 58, providing medical aid to some of Africa's most disadvantaged people.
Since 2000, she has returned every year for several months at a time, establishing a small hospital, health clinics for mothers and babies, a physiotherapy centre, literacy school, micro-loan bank and farming infrastructure. She has done this almost singlehandedly, with the financial support of other Australian retirees and a Federal government grant, and has become known among the locals as 'Mama Jude'.
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More biographies
Biographies can also be found in the Non-Fiction and Fiction and Literature Living Rooms on the 1st floor, in the New Zealand and Pacific Islands Zone on the 2nd floor, and in Sound and Vision Zone on the ground floor.
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