Sunday Morning Shamwana: A Midwife's Letters from the Field
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| Rating | : | 4.40 (559 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0985935006 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 350 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-11-30 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
amazing experience I am not medically trained, and I have never experienced anything like this, and I was riveted from the first pages. It is funny, passionate, beautifully described, a tribute to the women she worked with, their suffering and their extraordinary strength. It made me hopeful about the potential to do good in the world, and want to do my part in that. Don't miss it!Linda Robinson gives a mixed portrait of Doctors Without Borders- she volunteered with them . Kathe P. Simons said Couldn't put it down --- and couldn't wait to share it with others!. Linda's writing immediately drew me in. Her deeply personal reflections spanned so many situations and emotions as she so eloquently describes her year in the Congo with Doctors without Borders. As I read, I found myself so often thinking, could I do that? Would I have the nerve? Would I have the courage? How did she do it? Linda's grueling and yet triumphant year is a riveting read. As I approached the last few chapters, I found myself slowing down ---. "Amazing adventure" according to Anne Haynes. Linda Robinson takes us to another world, where the people live in poverty, fear, sickness, and often without even the most basic needs. One in every seven women in the Congo die of a pregnancy related cause, and Linda, a midwife, spends endless days working with these women----helping them, educating them, and coming to love many of them. This book portrays her courage, and dedication in a page turning story with adventure, humor, sadness and love.
This book gives an eye-opening account of the day-to-day reality of a fieldworker in the African bush and the trials and triumphs of work with an international aid organization. At once heart-wrenching and humorous, joyful and filled with grief, her riveting narratives allow us to encounter the realities of childbirth and survival in a time of war. She expresses her own horror, frustration, and small victories while questioning the limits of human strength, the role of international aid, and the meaning of her place in the world.. Sent by Doctors Without Borders to Shamwana, a small remote village deep in the Democratic Republic of Congo, an American nurse-midwife comes to know the extraordinary suffering and equally extraordinary strength of the village's women and their families. Traumatized by a decade of war and famine, the bleak landscape of Shamwana, once teeming with animals and vegetation, had been stripped bare by people desperate to survive. Her letters home each Sunday morning, written to make sense of the overwhelming challenges she was facing, are featured here to provide a loving picture of the people who both inspired and depended on her: Gerardine and Beatrice, the local midwives; Benson, the devoted Congolese physician who worked in conditions unimaginable in other parts of the world; and Mario, the Muslim Unimog driver who accompanied her as she visited villages where children were d