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During those years she was ran two feeding centers which could only take in 60 to 70 new children at a time whilst thousands more were in need of food. As a 20 years old, just qualified, nurse, she had to decide who would be the lucky enough to receive food. Those she couldn't help had little hope of survival. Before Ethiopia she worked in Lebanon, Panama and Sulawesi. Later on, she moved to Uganda, Kenya, Sudan, Afghanistan, Sierra Leone and other countries in West Africa. As of 2006 she lectures and runs the Diploma in Tropical Nursing at London School Of Hygiene And Tropical Medicine . Her experiences of the suffering she witnessed and lived in the war zones that she worked in made her look for a philosophy in life which answered her question of Why? Why should some people have plenty and otheres none. She wrote a book about her expereiences, ''Moving Mountains'', and the spiritual motivation which led her in her to Buddhism. Part of the money from the book went to ''African Children’s Educational Trust'', a small British charity. Later, Bertschinger received a series of awards for her work, including the Florence Nightingale Medal and culminating with the Women of the Year Award 2005 and the Window To The World Award 2005 sponsored by Pilkington , on a ceremony which also honored Margaret Thatcher and Tina Turner . EXTERNAL LINKS
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