We Shared the Peeled Orange The Letters of "Papa Louis" from Thai-Cambodian Border Refugee Camps 1981-1993 By Dr. Louis Braile and American Refugee Committee ISBN 0-929636-34-1 History / Memoir Syren Book Company · October 2004 6 x 9 · Paperback · 360 pp · Our price     $ 18.95         Quantity   "We Shared the Peeled Orange is uniquely the story of Dr. Braile and his amazing life of service to people forced to flee their homes because of war and oppression--the world's refugees. but this collection of letters is also a window through which we can glimpse the lives of thousands of unknown heroes, men and women, young and old, who work every day to help the thirty-six million people across the globe driven from their homes by conflict." —Hugh Q. Parmer, President, American Refugee Committee Dr. Louis Braile, who came to be known as "Papa Louis," was a volunteer physician, mentor, and teacher among Khmer refugees on the Thai-Cambodian border from 1981-1993. At the age of 59 he began his first of a dozen voluntary missions for the Minneapolis-based American Refugee Committee. He saved many lives and trained many Khmer medics, some who still work in healthcare in Cambodia today. Dr. Braile died in 2002.

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