Sunday Morning Shamwana

Sent by Doctors without Borders to Shamwana, in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the author provides a picture of the people who both inspired and depended on her through once-weekly letters sent home, written to make sense of the overwhelming challenges she was facing. She gives an eye-opening account of the day-to-day reality of a field worker in the African bush and the trials and tribulations of work with an international aid organization --