In the
article “These Women Hold the Key to Building a Sustainable Future” a program
called Jungle Mamas is introduced. These Jungle Mamas go around to the
indigenous women of Achuar and teach them about safe practices for the
pregnancy period, childbirth, and raising healthy families. Typically, Achuar
women have children at the young age of 14 or 15 and have about 4 to 12
children each. She leads a normal lifestyle no different than her regular one
leading up the birth, and when she goes into labor she goes off by herself and
gives birth essentially by squatting and holding on to a wooden post. These
kind of procedures definitely are not the safest, which is what the Jungle
Mamas hope to change. As of now, the Jungle Mamas have educated the inhabitants
of 71% of the Achuar land and hope to reach 100% by the end of 2015.
Reference:
Landes-Gilman, Ryan.
2015 These Women Hold the Key to Building a Sustainable Future.Pachama Alliance. March 6, 2015. Retrieved from http://www.pachamama.org/blog/women-sustainability-jungle-mamas.
2015 These Women Hold the Key to Building a Sustainable Future.Pachama Alliance. March 6, 2015. Retrieved from http://www.pachamama.org/blog/women-sustainability-jungle-mamas.
As an Indian woman, I come from a second world country that is not as educated as most countries about safe health practices. Mortality and morality rates are not at as desirable levels as they could be. Reading this article, as a woman, I felt really pleased that there are a group of women out there that are willing to spend their time to educate other women about safe health practices. As an Indian, this inspires me to one day, when I hopefully become a doctor, set up some kind of medical camp and help educate my own people and benefit in ways that the Jungle Mamas have.
ReplyDeleteThank you so much for a very insightful and personal comment. I really appreciate it Yamini. Your reference, is it a web site? Try to make it consistent with the formatting we use in the AAA Style Guide I posted on Canvas, and with the way the other members of your group wrote the refs. Thanks!!!
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