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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... pill . For those who do , it isn't easy to get . First the doctor must see them , in Koutiala . Then each month they must pick up their pack of pills at the pharmacy near the hospital . As you know , it is very difficult for women to ...
... pill . For those who do , it isn't easy to get . First the doctor must see them , in Koutiala . Then each month they must pick up their pack of pills at the pharmacy near the hospital . As you know , it is very difficult for women to ...
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... pills . They will come out to Nam- possela and test the women on this . If all the women pass and if at least fifteen women are interested in birth control , we can store the pills here , in Nampossela . " I swept with renewed vigor . 8 ...
... pills . They will come out to Nam- possela and test the women on this . If all the women pass and if at least fifteen women are interested in birth control , we can store the pills here , in Nampossela . " I swept with renewed vigor . 8 ...
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... pill . I didn't have any problem with the pill until one day I was sick and went to the hospital and the people there told me to stop taking the pill . They said it was the pill's fault that I had back pain . You see ? Now all is OK ...
... pill . I didn't have any problem with the pill until one day I was sick and went to the hospital and the people there told me to stop taking the pill . They said it was the pill's fault that I had back pain . You see ? Now all is OK ...
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