Michael Buerk said 'Moving Mountains' was the story "one of the true heroines of our times." On Monday Claire publishes her autobiography, entitled 'Moving Mountains', (published by Doubleday) using her diary entries, letters and memories to paint a vivid picture of her experiences. "They had no blood, so I gave him one unit of mine and my diary entry was that 'today I have done something'." When Michael Buerk and the BBC crew arrived, Claire had been in the country for nearly four months, during which time few people in the world knew of their plight.įollowing his film the world was mobilised and aid started pouring in.īut Claire said one of her clearest memories of that day was taking an anaemic baby to the hospital for a blood transfusion. I got sick and got boils, but I am a fighter and I went with my challenges." "At the time you were so busy you would either sink or swim and I just carried on. I was so engrossed in the feeding station. "I did not know a lot of what was going on in the outside world at that time. "I heard the Band Aid single but did not realise something was being done for Ethiopia, I thought he (Geldof) was making money for himself." "I did not realise I was the catalyst for Live Aid. "It was a lot to do with my coping mechanism and shutting out my horror. "For me, the experience was so horrendous I did not want to read anything or hear anything about it," she said. Claire, a nurse for the International Committee of the Red Cross, carried on her work in the feeding centre in Mekele, in Tigrey, and shut herself off from media reports, oblivious to the fact that she was the catalyst for so much fundraising.
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