Host: Ron Beard, University of Maine Cooperative Extension
Engineer: Amy Browne
Program Topic: A Midwife’s Letters from the “land of the children” an interview with Linda Robinson, Women’s Health Center, Bar Harbor and author of Sunday Morning, Shamwana
Key Discussion Points:
a) How did you come to seek a year with Host: Ron Beard, University of Maine Cooperative Extension
Engineer: Amy Browne
?
b) What was your basic assignment? What was the situation that Doctors without Borders was attempting to address? How did this relate to the overall political situation in the Democratic Republic of Congo?
c) You describe your weekly email’s home, to a network of family and friends as kind of a lifeline—say more about how that came about and how you nurtured that lifeline.
d) Describe the village of Shamwana and your compound
e) Short reading that conveys key challenges you faced in providing care
f) Short reading that conveys when you felt the best about your work and that of other team members
g) When did you decide that you wanted to take your emails from Shamwana, and your journal, and create a book?
h) You had some false starts before you decided on publishing the book yourself?
Once you decided on self-publication, what was the process?
i) If others are considering self-publication, what questions should they ask themselves?
Now that the book is published, you are free to continue to write the story of your life … what comes next?
j) Contact information for purchasing book and public readings/signings
Guest: Linda Robinson, Women’s Health Center, Bar Harbor and author of Sunday Morning, Shamwana
Call In Program: Yes