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Civic Innovator: Rosmery Mollo Mamani

By Angelica Serna

Rosmery Mollo Mamani’s great-grandmother died in childbirth. It is an all-too-common tragedy in the Bolivian altiplano (plateau), where Indigenous women experience the country’s highest rates of maternal mortality. But Mollo refused to accept that fact as inevitable.

At the age of 19, she left her Indigenous community in the province of Ingavi to pursue a degree in nursing at La Universidad Católica Boliviana (Catholic University of Bolivia) in La Paz. For the past nine years, she has been the coordinator of the Warmi public health project—which, until it lost...

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