From the article: 6 Steps to Making Your Nonprofit a Media Star
Has your nonprofit been in the media? Whatever it was and wherever it appeared, we want to know. Share your story. Share Your Story
childbirth
- My favorite experience was while volunteering with a medical non-profit in Peru. As always, I was supporting the non profit as a photographer and this particular day I was in a small village called La Joya. I was shooting in a clinic where I met a young woman going into labor. I asked if I could photograph her childbirth and she said yes. I felt honored to be able to document the birth of her first child and share the experience. She went through the birth without pain meds (I didn’t know that at the time) and was pretty miserable. I spent half my time photographing the delivery and the other half comforting her through the process. After the baby was born I stopped shooting and just took her hand and tried to take her mind off the pain of the episiotomy sutures being put in. As a documentary photographer I’ve seen the face of pain and she was in agony. I tried to comfort her as best I could even though I couldn’t speak Quechua. When everything was nearly finished her and the midwif
- —photokev
An old idea new again
- The late author Cleveland Amory once visited Northwood University in Midland where I was a young staff member. I'll never forget taking him for an interview at our (new!) local TV station. He said "on air" that he thought that for every "bad" story reported--crime, accidents, world crises, the media should be required to report an uplifting story such as celebrations, examples of human kindness, and "feel good" tales such as those you mention. He caused quite a stir, but made a great point even with the somewhat surprised reporters that this could have a huge influence not only on public morale but human behavior! His idea has always "stuck with me"as having a good deal of merit (and has influenced my own attitude!)
- —Guest Nancy Barker
