Monique and the Mango Rains: Two Years with a Midwife in MaliWaveland Press, 2007 - 212 pages "This tender, revelatory memoir recalls the two years Holloway spent as an impressionable Peace Corps volunteer in the remote village of Nampossela in Mali, West Africa. It centers on her close friendship with Monique, the village's overburdened midwife. When Holloway (now a nonprofit development specialist) arrived in Nampossela in 1989, she was 22; Monique was only two years her senior. Yet Monique, barely educated, working without electricity, running water, ambulances or emergency rooms, was solely responsible for all births in her village, tending malnourished and overworked pregnant women in her makeshift birthing clinic. With one of the highest rates of maternal death in the world, these Malian women sometimes had to work right up until and directly after giving birth and had no means of contraception. Holloway especially noted Monique's status as an underpaid female whose male family members routinely claimed much of her pay. Monique shared her emotional life with Holloway, who in turn campaigned for her rights at work and raised funds for her struggling clinic. Holloway's moving account vividly presents the tragic consequences of inadequate prenatal and infant health care in the developing world and wi. |
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... girl's genitals for a liv- ing . Tears welled in my eyes as I thought of Monique , and of her mother , Jeanne , before ... girls become good wives and bear children . But , I can tell you , Fatumata , that I have noticed myself , that it ...
... girl's genitals for a liv- ing . Tears welled in my eyes as I thought of Monique , and of her mother , Jeanne , before ... girls become good wives and bear children . But , I can tell you , Fatumata , that I have noticed myself , that it ...
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... girls being cut . Although these practices were often justified on religious grounds , there is no mandate in any ... girls were excised in dark huts with a razor blade , scissors , a knife , or a broken piece of glass . Very few of ...
... girls being cut . Although these practices were often justified on religious grounds , there is no mandate in any ... girls were excised in dark huts with a razor blade , scissors , a knife , or a broken piece of glass . Very few of ...
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... girls went into shock , some bled to death . Some lived only a few days longer before succumbing to blood poisoning or tetanus . Surviving in the short term did not guarantee that a girl's troubles were behind her . Recurrent tearing of ...
... girls went into shock , some bled to death . Some lived only a few days longer before succumbing to blood poisoning or tetanus . Surviving in the short term did not guarantee that a girl's troubles were behind her . Recurrent tearing of ...
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Monique and the Mango Rains: An Extraordinary Story of Friendship in a ... Kris Holloway Aucun aperçu disponible - 2011 |
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