Holloway's moving account vividly presents the tragic consequences of inadequate prenatal and infant health care in the developing world and will interest all those concerned about the realities of women's lives outside the industrialized world. Monique shared her emotional life with Holloway, who in turn campaigned for her rights at work and raised funds for her struggling clinic. 3 Praise for Monique and the Mango Rains Anita Diamant, author of international bestseller The Red Tent I was moved and inspired by Monique and the Mango Rains. Holloway especially noted Monique's status as an underpaid female whose male family members routinely claimed much of her pay. 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. 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. When Holloway (now a nonprofit development specialist) arrived in Nampossela in 1989, she was 22 Monique was only two years her senior. Response: The person should go back and check if the dog is okay This person may either drunk or extremely cruel and hates dogs. It centers on her close friendship with Monique, the village's overburdened midwife. Monique and the Mango Rains is a reflection of the participation of the women Cultures Take a Day in Words: 2213 Length: 6 Pages Topic: Children Paper : 5684038 2.

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.

Monique & the mango rains