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Courageous Pioneers
Celebrating 50 years as Pathfinder International and 80 years of pioneering work in family planning and reproductive health around the world
Beginning with a foreword by former Secretary of the UN, Kofi Annan, Courageous Pioneers takes the reader on a journey through Pathfinder International’s 50 year history of reproductive health and family planning work. The book spans several continents and decades, highlighting the challenges and celebrating the successes of Pathfinder’s efforts to bring reproductive health care and women’s rights to remote regions of the developing world.
In particular the book highlights influential family planning figures such as Clarence Gamble, Pathfinder’s founder, Sattareh Farman Farmaian, founder of the Tehran School of Social Work and author of Daughter of Persia, and Luigi DeMarchi and Maria Luisa Zardini, groundbreaking leaders in Italy’s contraceptive movement. Courageous Pioneers is a must-read for anyone interested in learning more about reproductive health care around the world—particularly in remote, isolated, and socially challenging communities. As Kofi Annan writes in the foreword, “When the history of peaceful development in the 20th century comes to be written, there will be a chapter on unstoppable individuals and the organizations they founded. Among them will be Dr. Clarence Gamble and Pathfinder International.”
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Building Provider Confidence and Strong Program, Pathfinder in Viet Nam: In 1994, just months after the United States lifted its trade embargo, Katherine Bourne arrived in Viet Nam to open a Pathfinder office. Pathfinder was the first reproductive health NGO to post staff in the country and one of the first American NGOs of any kind to open an office. |
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Broadening Muslim Tradition: Bringing Family Planning to Iran: Satterah Farman Farmaian founded the Tehran School of Social Work and served as its director until 1979. For Courageous Pioneers, she writes of her struggle to bring family planning to Iran in the 1950s when contraceptives were virtually unknown. |
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Bringing Contraception to Italy: Luigi DeMarchi and Maria Luisa Zardini (formerly DeMarchi) were groundbreaking leaders of Italy’s contraceptive movement. Here, the couple tells the tale of their two decade struggle to overturn Italian laws banning distribution of information about birth control while braving multiple jail sentences and fines.
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