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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... Karamogo in the sling to be weighed . Elise shook her head no . Monique spoke to her in Minianka for some time , but ... Karamogo ' means ' teacher ' ? She believes the name alone will give him a long life . Part of her knows Karamogo is ...
... Karamogo in the sling to be weighed . Elise shook her head no . Monique spoke to her in Minianka for some time , but ... Karamogo ' means ' teacher ' ? She believes the name alone will give him a long life . Part of her knows Karamogo is ...
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... Karamogo , " " healthy , " and " brassière " among them . Elise's reaction was just north of ennui , but she began to take Karamogo off her back . I hooked the sling back on the scale and weighed him . He fell solidly in the red , but I ...
... Karamogo , " " healthy , " and " brassière " among them . Elise's reaction was just north of ennui , but she began to take Karamogo off her back . I hooked the sling back on the scale and weighed him . He fell solidly in the red , but I ...
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... Karamogo out here soon . At least we will be able to weigh him . ” I hit my nose instead of the fly , spilled more coffee , gave up , and fol- lowed her inside . Monique rummaged through some papers and waved Karamogo's green chart in ...
... Karamogo out here soon . At least we will be able to weigh him . ” I hit my nose instead of the fly , spilled more coffee , gave up , and fol- lowed her inside . Monique rummaged through some papers and waved Karamogo's green chart in ...
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