Mimi's Village: And How Basic Health Care Transformed It - Hardcover
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Availability:In StockContributor:Katie Smith Milway, Eugenie Fernandes (Illustrator)Series:CitizenKid #10Audience:Ages 9-12Publish date:2012-08-01Pages:32
Language:EnglishPublisher:Kids Can PressISBN-13:9781554537228ISBN-10:1554537223UPC:9781554537228Book Category:Juvenile NonfictionBook Subcategory:Health & Daily Living, People & Places, Girls & WomenBook Topic:AfricaSize:12.25 x 9.35 x 0.51 inchesWeight:1.1707Product ID:SCM7FSHSKD
In this fictionalized story about a real humanitarian problem facing many countries in the developing world today, readers meet Mimi, an ordinary girl from an ordinary family in Africa. When her younger sister, Nakkissi, gets very sick after drinking unsterilized water from the stream, Mimi learns firsthand how quickly things can go terribly wrong. With no health care provider close by, her whole...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Kids Can PressISBN-13:9781554537228ISBN-10:1554537223UPC:9781554537228Book Category:Juvenile NonfictionBook Subcategory:Health & Daily Living, People & Places, Girls & WomenBook Topic:AfricaSize:12.25 x 9.35 x 0.51 inchesWeight:1.1707Product ID:SCM7FSHSKD
Katie Smith Milway, a native of Vancouver, B.C., has coordinated community development programs in Africa and Latin America for Food for the Hungry; consulted on village banking in Senegal with World Vision and was a delegate to the 1992 Earth Summit. She has written books and articles on sustainable development and is currently a partner at nonprofit consultancy The Bridgespan Group, based in...
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