Anne Spoerry, whose real first name is Marie-Anne, learned to fly and acquired an airplane in 1964 in order to join the Foundation for Medicine and Research in Africa (Amref). The forties is then the first woman to join this very active organization of flying doctors, especially in Kenya, where she has lived for fourteen years. Among its missions: “to deliver basic curative and preventive care to remote health stations”, she summarizes in They call me Mama Daktari , an autobiography published in 1994. For more than thirty years, she spent more than 8,000 hours at the controls of her biplane and contributed, it is estimated, to improving the lot of 1.2 million people. She is also at the initiative of the creation, in 1978, of a…
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