Lillie is a twice-traditionally published author with Hay House. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.Passages & Prose, LLC was founded in 2014 by author Lillie Leonardi. Now I want you to know his name.” More than the story of a daring humanitarian rescue, this book reveals the astonishing future of the rescued children and their descendants. Nearly a half a century later, because I wrote Far Away in the Sky, I learned his name. One boy, lying limp on a mat near the plane, looked up at me in the gloom and said, ‘My father, why don’t you speak to me? Don’t you know me?’ As he was about to pass into eternity he felt that no one - not his father, not God, no one - knew who he was.
“Sometimes after unloading our planes in the dark, we evacuated children in the final stages of starvation.
To David Koren the people of Biafra, his former students and fellow teachers, constituted his motive for joining the airlift. The former volunteers had served in Nigeria and were familiar with the area and the people. UNICEF recruited six former United States Peace Corps Volunteers, including the author, to help unload the planes. Flying at night to avoid Nigerian MiGs, without radar or any modern navigational aids, landing amid bombs on a stretch of road in the rain forest, the old planes delivered thousands of tons of food and medicines.
The World Council of Churches and Caritas International mounted a relief airlift.
In 1968 millions of people, mostly children, were starving due to a military blockade of Biafra, the former Eastern Region of Nigeria. Far Away in the Sky gives the personal account of one of them, a young American volunteer who joined the largest civilian humanitarian relief airlift ever attempted. All flew on rickety old aircraft into a nighttime, wartime patch of African forest called Biafra.
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