Ibu Robin a guerrilla midwife
On her way out from the restaurant in Ubud, the blonde young woman stops at my table, smiling. I’m wearing my Bumi Sehat T-shirt, the one with the big beautiful logo of a birthing mother, and every time I’m wearing it women either smile or talk to me. ”I’m a midwife from California” she says ”are you a volunteer at Bumi Sehat? Isn’t it such a beautiful place? Aren’t they doing a great job?”. Bumi Sehat is a birthing centre that gives free-care and free-prenatal assistance to poor Indonesian women, the warm attention that its logo draws from locals and westerners is the evidence of how much well known Bumi Sehat is around Ubud. The driving force behind the clinic is CNN Hero for 2011 Ibu Robin Lim, a Philipino- American midwife who’s been living in Ubud since 1993 together with her large family of eight children and a husband. A very energetic woman on her 50s, Robin is also a poet and a writer. A restless campaigner, she regularly tours Europe and The States talking on gentle b