Evangelina raises the funds to set sail for Paris to learn about the latest advances in women’s health.
Evangelina Rodríguez Perozo
Born into poverty and abandoned by her parents, Evangelina Rodríguez Perozo rises from a life selling sweets in the street to become the first female Dominican doctor in 1911.
A poor Afro-Dominican girl defies the odds to become the first female doctor in the Dominican Republic.
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