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Check out our feature in the Carmel Magazine, in their Fall 2023 Issue!
Senegal Midwifery Program is a True Labor of Love
A Carmel midwife with a deep calling to work abroad is in the midst of an extraordinary journey. It began in 2009 when Jill Diallo got the opportunity to work at a maternity clinic in West Africa. She was supposed to volunteer for five weeks, but knew her work wasn't done. Today, she’s the founder of the Senegal Health Institute. Last September, she opened a birth center in Kafountine.
KAZU’s Erika Mahoney met Diallo during her trip home to Carmel. Diallo described Kafountine, the rural village where she works…
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It’s a densely populated area that has around 70,000 people living in 19 Kafountine villages. The villages are located on the Senegalese coast – a rural part, isolated by another country that itself is surrounded by Senegal, a thin and tiny Gambia.
How did Carmel High School graduate Jill Diallo, a midwife who attended births on the Monterey Peninsula for years, end up in such a remote place?…
I would like to introduce you to Jenny Webster, who has become an ambassador for the Senegal Health Institute!
Jenny and I met in 2014 at one of our SHI fundraisers in Carmel, California; it was at that fundraiser that I discovered Jenny and I had Senegal in common–not only did she live on the Monterey Peninsula, where I am from, but she also lived in a village just 20 minutes from me, in Senegal. What are the chances of that!…
Spending much of the year in the poorest part of the African country of Senegal, 1980 Carmel High School graduate Jill Diallo has gone to extraordinary lengths to make birth safer for the women and adolescent girls who live there.
With the twin goals of improving birthing conditions and contributing to the education and empowerment of women who often possess neither, Diallo founded the Senegal Health Institute in 2012 and…