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By Victoria Brehm

Ladies lighthouse keepers, fur investors, chefs on crusing vessels, missionaries, and fearless tourists all wrote in their lives at the nice Lakes, either publicly and in quiet stories corresponding to letters, logbooks, and diaries. Their narratives, which span the centuries from 1789 to the current, at the moment are accumulated during this anthology. Compiled in line with old bills basically from white males, this assortment starts with American Indian myths and tales and keeps via writings by way of girls pioneers and tourists. greater than 3 dozen decisions of autobiography, fiction, newspaper debts, and poetry chronicle the true chance and the actual and psychological demanding situations of residing within the setting of the nice Lakes.

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Local NGOs dealing with health issues are small organizations that must follow the regulations of the ministry of health. They work with communities and are usually very efficient, especially in rural areas. Faith-based organizations became very popular during the George W. Bush era because they were getting a lot of funding for preaching abstinence and the negative effect of abortion. Faith-based organizations are now getting some federal grants, along with local government funding and donations.

In Cuzco, nurses and doctors were available for more sophisticated abortions at prices ranging from $20 to $55 (by vacuum suction). Some women had a history of two abortions, while others had multiple abortions. 12 The reasons to get abortions included the husband’s adulterous life, the husband not working and having to support the family with roadside sales of cooked food, and abusive or alcoholic husbands. Other instances included women who had lovers during the absence of their partners, women whose husbands were sentenced to jail and had to support the children, and women who got pregnant while using a contraceptive method because of fear of giving birth to a “monster” or deformed child.

Among my female informants less than a third had formal schooling up to six years but not continuously. 3 The following is a description of the village, women’s conditions, their use and beliefs in traditional medicine, women’s reproductive health, and the village’s health post 4 at the time of my fieldwork research that lasted several summers. 5 MARKITA Markita 6 was an agricultural community of 3,500 inhabitants in the 1980s, situated at 10,500 feet in the Peruvian southern sierra and located in the region of Cuzco.

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