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A String Of Beads: Or How To Start Something You Know Nothing About
A String Of Beads Or How To Start Something You Know Nothing About Author:Susan Wood Susan Wood was born (1918) in a mud hut in an African Village. Her parents were missionaries in the Ituri Forest of the then Belgian Congo. Shw was educated in England and married Michael Wood, a surgeon. They came to Kenya in 1947 and Michael Wood was founder of the East African Medical and Research Foundation (AMREF), which he was Director Gen... more »eral for 29 years. Michael Wood was knighted in 1985. Susan Wood farmed on Kilimanjaro for nineteen years. On her return to Nairobi she founded Kazuri Ltd, a company which maked hand-made ceramic beads, employing many women who have been the victims of social change. She was awarded the M.B.E. in 1990. Susan Wood had four children, three of whom live and work in Kenya and one in USA and UK.« less