Molly Melching Helping African Women and Girls

The Leonard Lopate Show | May 29, 2013

Molly Melching talks about her experience as an exchange student in Senegal and how it led her to dedicate almost four decades of her life to the girls and women of Africa. She’s joined by Aimee Molloy, author of the biography However Long the Night: Molly Melching's Journey to Help Millions of African Women and Girls Triumph, which details Melching's beginnings at the University of Dakar and follows her journey of 40 years in Africa, where she became a social entrepreneur and an advocate for the rights of girls and women.

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