by Lorraine Berry

Stacy Gold '89, a sociology major, minored in community health. From 1990 to 1993 she taught health in Guinea-Bissau. She worked in a clinic for the first year and then traveled to rural villages to teach people about malaria prevention, oral rehydration, latrine building, and STD prevention. She also worked with midwives, teaching maternal and child health --- and even helped deliver
a baby.

Gold describes her service as "very profound. I learned how to raise children in Africa. I learned what family is. I learned how natural it is to have all these community members involved in the life of each child." For her, the phrase "It takes a village" is not a bumper-sticker slogan or political sound bite, but rather a way of life that she observed firsthand.