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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... compound , carrying a radio that was in des- perate need of a clear station and new batteries . It was le gars ( the guy ) , as Monique called him . I had barely spoken a word to Monique's husband and had only recently come to know his ...
... compound , carrying a radio that was in des- perate need of a clear station and new batteries . It was le gars ( the guy ) , as Monique called him . I had barely spoken a word to Monique's husband and had only recently come to know his ...
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... compound and blurted between heavy breaths that Natou had fainted and was bleeding . It was common for a woman to put in a full day's work soon after giving birth - pounding millet , washing clothes , hauling water , cooking over a hot ...
... compound and blurted between heavy breaths that Natou had fainted and was bleeding . It was common for a woman to put in a full day's work soon after giving birth - pounding millet , washing clothes , hauling water , cooking over a hot ...
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... compounds . The tall metal gates to their compound were always open , literally and figuratively . They were also ... compound late that afternoon , Polici , their guard dog , ears torn and fur scarred from countless fights , came at ...
... compounds . The tall metal gates to their compound were always open , literally and figuratively . They were also ... compound late that afternoon , Polici , their guard dog , ears torn and fur scarred from countless fights , came at ...
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