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A Midwife in Mali

Wednesday, July 04, 2007

When Kris Holloway was 22, she went to the remote village of Nampossela in Mali, West Africa for a 2-year stint as a Peace Corps volunteer. She worked with the village midwife Monique, and saw firsthand the hopes and hardships of the women there. Her recent book is Monique and the Mango Rains.

Monique and the Mango Rains is available for purchase at amazon.com


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  • [1] John Coyne from New York/Westchester July 04, 2007 - 08:11AM

    Returned Peace Corps Volunteer Kris Holloway is interviewed at length about her Peace Corps experience and her relationship with Monique on the website:www.peacecorpswriters.org. You can read it at:

    http://peacecorpswriters.org/pages/2006/0609/609talk-holloway.html


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