Clinique Monique

Mali movie

Did you have your dose of awareness this morning?

Who are we and why are we here?

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

Where is Mali?

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

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

• High infant mortality rate

• Peace Corps Volunteer • Two years with a

midwife• Northampton, MA

o Director of Institutional Relations at Smith College

o John Bidwello Two sons

• 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

• 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.

• 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

• 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

• 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

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

• $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