Linda Richards

1920 to 1922. Staupers used her influence and management skills and became executive secretary of the Harlem Committee of the New York Tuberculosis and Health Association.

1.2.9 Linda Richards of United States of America (1841–1930) was the first professionally trained American nurse. She established nursing training programs in the United States and Japan, and created the first system for keeping individual medical records for hospitalized patients. Richards was born on July 27, 1841 in West Potsdam, New York, USA. She was the youngest of the three daughters of Betsy Sinclair Richards and Sanford Richards, a preacher, who named his daughter after the missionary Ann Hasseltine Judson in the hopes that she would follow her footsteps. In 1845,

Her work in Ethiopia in 1984 inspired Band Aid and subsequently Live Aid, the biggest relief programme ever mounted. The daughter of a Swiss father and British mother, Bertschinger was brought up in Sheering near Bishop's Stortford on the Hertfordshire. Bertschinger graduated from Brunel University in Medical Anthropology in 1997. Bertschinger is a Buddhist, practicing Nichiren Buddhism. She became a member of Sōka Gakkai International in 1994. In 2005, her book Moving Mountains was published, describing her experiences, and her spiritual motivation which led her to Buddhism. Part of the royalties from the book went to The African Children's Educational Trust, a British charity. After getting training and working as a nurse in the U.K., Bertschinger became a medic on Operation Drake, an expedition with Colonel John Blashford-Snell and the Scientific Exploration Society in Panama, Papua New Guinea and Sulawesi. After this experience, she joined the emergency disaster relief group of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), allowed to attend war locations . Through this