title: Mwatambudzeni's short life.
abstract: This fictional story depicts a young Zimbabwean girl's short life amid the struggles of poverty, cultural practices, and access to health care. Through Mwatambudzeni's story, we experience her lost educational opportunities, unsuccessful fight against a system of harmful cultural practices, and her premature death caused by lack of available health care services. But it also offers a glimmer of hope as young girls, not wanting to follow in Mwatambudzeni's footsteps, begin to empower themselves through education.
authors.affiliation: Education and Research Services, Peace County Health, Regional Community Health Services, Public Health Office, Grande Prairie, Alberta, Canada.
authors.forename: Jane Hardina Murigwa
authors.initials: JH
authors.lastname: Kanchense
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D005260:Female; D006301:Health Services Needs and Demand; D006801:Humans; D008393:Marriage / Q000208:ethnology; D008427:Maternal Health Services; D011203:Poverty; D011247:Pregnancy; D012940:Social Problems; D016387:Women's Health; D014933:Women's Rights; D015030:Zimbabwe