Book 5: However Long the Night

This is the biography of Molly Melching, a woman who started a non-profit organization called Tostan in Senegal.

I appreciated this description of an organization that seeks solutions from the bottom up, rather than the top down. Tostan provides education to women in small groups, and over time, the women began asking for a module about women's health and the very sensitive issue of female genital cutting. Tostan has been very successful in reducing the rate of female genital cutting where other groups have not because it uses women's social groups and women's ideas to address the real reasons that cutting is practiced.