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SUMMARY:Book Launch: Africa Opened My Heart by Julie Dreyer
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, September 18\, 2024\, 6:00 pm\n\n\n\nJoin Montreal-based author Julie Dreyer Wang for the launch of her memoir Africa Opened My Heart.  \n\n\n\nAbout the Book\n\n\n\nThis is a love story. Heading to Uganda to reinvent herself after her husband’s death\, the author sought a new sense of purpose. There\, she worked with AIDS orphans and found Ugandans open-hearted and welcoming. Subsequently\, in Benin\, West Africa\, while serving with the Peace Corps\, she found herself falling in love with one special man and wanting to share what she had with him. A memoir and travelogue\, Africa Opened My Heart provides a thought-provoking look at the challenges of building a more equal world and the joys of finding new love late in life. \n\n\n\nAbout the Author\n\n\n\nJulie Dreyer Wang was born in England\, and lived in five countries before the age of 21. She started her writing career at the Montreal Gazette\, then moved to New York City and founded Wang Associates Health Communications\, which specialized in health and medicine. She also became an adjunct professor of writing at New York University. \n\n\n\nOn the sale of her business\, realizing there was more to life than making money\, she trained as a landscape designer and designed gardens on the Blue Hill Peninsula of Maine\, as the owner of Blue Poppy Garden. Then\, when her husband died she first went to Uganda to work with AIDS orphans\, then joined the Peace Corps to work in Benin\, West Africa. \n\n\n\nAfrica Opened My Heart describes her time in Africa and the amazing open-heartedness of the people there who profoundly changed her life. She currently co-owns an organic farm in the north of Benin\, and with her partner\, Guillaume\, runs Bio-Benin\, a non-profit that empowers students to earn a living in restaurant cooking\, beer-brewing and organic farming. All proceeds of her memoir go to Bio-Benin.
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