The March 1 issue of The National Post featured an article written by The Word Guild member Dr. Jean Chamberlain Froese, with her husband, journalist Thom Froese, also a member of The Word Guild.
This article is an articulate commentary on the issue of maternal mortality in the developing world (i.e., women and children dying unnecessarily due to complications from pregnancy and childbirth), which Prime Minister Stephen Harper has pledged to make a key issue of the G8 summit in Canada in June. Jean is a Canadian obstetrician/gynecologist who founded a charity called Save the Mothers, an innovative program to create grassroots social change in developing countries to reduce preventable deaths. Through creating a Masters level program in public health, Jean is teaching journalists, teachers, politicians and other graduates to become influential advocates who will work to generate the multi-faceted societal changes required. 
She and Thom live in Uganda much of the year with their three children, and in summers return to Hamilton, Ont., where Jean is a professor at McMaster University and is also the director of the International Women's Health Program at McMaster. In 2009, Jean was presented with the prestigious Teasdale-Corti Humanitarian Award by the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada.
On International Women's Day on March 9, Jean received more national media coverage when she was interviewed from Uganda on the CBC Radio program The Current.
Jean is the author of the book Where Have All the Mothers Gone? Stories of courage and hope during childbirth among the world's poorest women. Thom Froese's recent book is titled Ninety-Nine Windows: Reflections of a Reporter from Arabia to Africa to other roads less travelled.
The Word Guild member Patricia Paddey was published in The National Post's blog The Holy Post on February 12. Her article was titled "Christians doing great work in Haiti." Thanks to Patricia for mentioning The Word Guild several times in that article.
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