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Monique and the Mango Rains: Two Years with a Midwife in Mali

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"There have been many accounts of studying people from other cultures, but few of actually being friends with them. By the third page of Monique and the Mango Rains, you know that Monique, a midwife in Mali, will die in childbirth. midwife mali women Peace Corps friendship

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Empowering Change: Caitlin Cohen of the Sigida Keneyali Project

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In December I wrote a book review of Monique and the Mango Rains , the story of a Peace Corps worker's two years working with a midwife in Mali. Below is an e-interview with another woman making a difference in Mali, Caitlin Cohen, one of two US coordinators of the Sigida Keneyali Project. What is the biggest challenge of your work?

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The Digital Divide Doesn't Exist

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Given the difficulty in unpacking all of the socio-economic, cultural, political, educational, and other mutually-reinforcing components of digital inequality, simple metaphors can't carry the weight. Mohammed Diop, of Mali , presumably one of the very people OLPC wants to convince: "It is a very clever marketing tool.

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Joitske Hulsebosch: Blogs, NGOs, and Developing Countries

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" Later, her work brought her to Mali, where she advised on participatory methods. re online, you blog and you have young children. I found a new balance since the children go to school and want to play with friends rather than with me. But my children still complain at times and tell me to close down the computer!

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