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Clinique Monique

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Mali movie

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Did you have your dose of awareness this morning?

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Who are we and why are we here?

We are students of Saint Joseph College and need your help!!

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Where is Mali?

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• Poverty rate: villagers earn less than $1.25 a day

• Produce: millet, rice, corn, tobacco, and mangos

• High infant mortality rate

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• Peace Corps Volunteer • Two years with a

midwife• Northampton, MA

o Director of Institutional Relations at Smith College

o John Bidwello Two sons

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• Only midwife in Nampossela

• Job entails• delivering • weighing• informing her people on

ways to keep healthy and safe

• Mother of three and was in an unhappy marriage

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• Effects 1 in every 3 children• Most mothers cannot breastfeed children• Little to no clean water to drink• Over 40% of population dies each year due to

malnutrition.

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• Birthing house -“like an oven, baking all the secretions and juices into a rank casserole.”

• Less than 2% population with sewage system

• Less than 25% with public water supply

Nampossela Clinic

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• Men are in charge of all finances

• Women have no rights to make decisions

• Women’s possessions become men’s after marriage

• Women are property

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• Monique’s cousin Maxim runs the rural birthing

• Offers medical consultation

• Maxim is currently able to perform minor surgeries and conduct prenatal visits

• In the future he hopes to provide obstetrical care as well.

Clinique Monique

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Donate items such as• Q-tips• Cotton swabs• Gauze• First aid supplies• Tissues • Diapers• Money

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• $5,000 – Furnishes one surgical room

• $1,000 – pays for one solar generator and back-up battery

• $300 – pays for one year of midwifery training

• $100 – sends a child to school for one year

• $50 – pays for a set of medical instruments

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