TY  - BOOK
AU  - Molloy,Aimee
TI  - However long the night: Molly Melching's journey to help millions of African women and girls triumph
SN  - 9780062132796
U1  - 392.1/096 
PY  - 2013///
CY  - New York, NY
PB  - HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
KW  - Female circumcision
KW  - Africa
KW  - Prevention
KW  - Human rights
KW  - Human rights workers
KW  - Non-governmental organizations
KW  - Community education
N2  - Tells the unlikely and inspiring story of Molly Melching, an American woman whose experience as an exchange student in Senegal led her to found Tostan and dedicate almost four decades of her life to the girls and women of Africa; In 1974, American exchange student Molly Melching arrived in Senegal for a six-month program that would become a forty-year journey of transformation. Inspired by her experiences living in a remote village, she founded Tostan, an organization dedicated to empowering communities by using democracy and human-rights-based education to promote relationships built upon dignity, equality, and respect. Tostan's groundbreaking strategies have led to better education for the women of rural Africa, improved health care, a decrease in child/forced marriage, and declarations by thousands of African communities to abandon the practice of female genital cutting. However Long the Night is the story of how Melching, named by Newsweek and the Daily Beast as one of the "150 women who shake the world," is paving the way to a world with human dignity for all
UR  - https://uowd.box.com/s/cgbjrg4crw6zxsfsh2ukhi29j62u1r2j
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