Bonjour, dear listeners!

In many countries around the world, March is Women's History Month.

To mark the occasion, the Duolingo French podcast is revisiting some of our favorite stories

from women trailblazers across the Francophone world.

Today, we'll hear an episode from July 2021.

It takes us to Haiti to meet a woman named Lune Ville.

She's one of the island's most respected public health experts.

On a devastating earthquake hit quarter prints in 2010, Lune immediately thought about

38 children she knew were at the city's general hospital.

In this episode, she tells us how she rushed to their aid.

It's a powerful story.

Stay tuned at the end for an update about Lune and the children.

Now onto the episode.

Like nearly every person in Haiti, Lune Ville remembers exactly where she was on the

afternoon of January 12, 2010.

She was attending a meeting of public health experts in the island's capital, Bor O'Prince.

All the way through, the walls, the table and the chairs started to tremble.

At the beginning, people didn't know what happened.

In a few moments, we were able to watch the mobile.

Haiti was experiencing a massive magnitude 7.0 earthquake, a tremblement of terror.

And the capital, Bor O'Prince, was right at the epicenter.

We understood that it was a tremblement of terror.

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