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050	0	0	_aHV713 _b.C667 2009
082	1	4	_a362.7092 _aB _222
100	1		_aCope, Pam. _920474
245	1	0	_aJantsen's gift : _ba true story of grief, rescue, and grace / _cPam Cope with Aimee Molloy.
250			_a1st ed.
260			_aNew York : _bGrand Central Pub., _c2009.
300			_aix, 304 p., [8] p. of plates : _bill., map ; _c24 cm.
520			_a"Ten years ago, Pam Cope owned a hair salon in the small town of Neosho, Missouri. Her life revolved around her son's baseball games, her daughter's dance lessons, and family trips to places like Disney World. She had never been out of the country, nor had she any desire to travel far from home. Then, on June 16, 1999, her life changed forever when her fifteen-year-old son Jantsen died from an undiagnosed heart ailment. Drowning in sadness and needing to get as far away from her loss as possible, she accepted a friend's invitation to visit orphanages in Vietnam. From the moment she arrived, everything began to shift. By the time she returned home, she had a new mission: to use her pain to change the world, one small step at a time, one child at a time. Within one year, Pam had rescued thirty children from the streets of Vietnam. Within five years, that number had grown to more than two hundred. Then, in 2006, a New York Times article about young children being sold into slavery in Ghana galvanized her to travel thousands of miles to intervene on their behalf. Today, Pam is the director and founder of Touch A Life, an organization dedicated to helping at-risk children all over the world, and she is working to build a center in Northern Ghana that offers a safe shelter and a promising future for the children she has rescued from slavery. A deeply moving account of loss and recovery, Pam Cope's story offers inspiration to anyone who has ever suffered great personal tragedy or has dreamed about making a difference in the world.: _bfrom the book jacket.
600	1	0	_aCope, Pam. _920474
650		0	_aChild welfare workers _vBiography. _920475
650		0	_aChild welfare _vCase studies. _920476
650		0	_aSocial work with children. _920477
700	1		_aMolloy, Aimee. _916626
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