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Monique and the Mango Rains is the compelling story of friendship than a decade of author Monique, an extraordinary midwife in rural Mali. It is a story of Monique’s unquenchable passion to improve the lives of women and children in the face of poverty, unhappy marriages, and endless hard work and his tragic and ironic death. In the course of this very personal story because readers immersed in village life and learn firsthand rhythms Monique would come to know her as a friend, a mother and a woman who inspired struggled to find its place a male dominated world.
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The book is about the West African state, which is landlocked almost three times the size of Japan, Mali has a GDP per capita of only $ 900 million according to the latest almanacs. Holloway mentions the average yearly income of $ 210, apparently referring to the years he spent there …show more content…

The next step was that Dembele began to discuss with indigenous women in their own way. The book also discuss the emotional shock as well. The bitter irony is that one out of every twelve Malian women who died due to childbirth (Holloway, 2006).
The book "Monique and mango rains: two years with the midwife in Mali" gives the the opportunity to inform them about nutrition, health and safety. In a country with one of the highest infant mortality rates in the world, the basic survival was the main concern.
The story is simple and in the direct way to teach local mothers how to make mashed baby food for their children. As at that time the custom was to directly change the babies’ breast milk as food for adult’s younger brother's birth. Because the average Malian woman has 6.8 children in her lifetime, according to Holloway, some children have to pass through a sudden change before they have enough food from their mother.
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