Maine Girl Takes on Clean Water Services in Namdu, Africa

Because the information I have on my friend Caroline’s trip to Africa and her experience working with Clean Water Services is very slim, at this point, I have come up with a series of questions to ask her in my first interviews to try and get the ball rolling. I really wanted to find the initial start to this process and hear why she feels so strongly about working to provide clean water to different parts of the world. Caroline is a 20 year old girl like myself, and grew up in Bangor, Maine. I want to figure out what opened her eyes to this issue at such a young age and the process it took to finally get her to Africa and work to make a difference.

Below are a few questions I plan on asking her to start the interviews:

Q: Name, hometown, family life, growing up etc.

Q: Where did this all begin? Why? Did something happen?

Q: What do you think the overall issue is?

Q: What were some of your first steps and actions to in getting involved with this topic?

Q: Did you start out with any goals in mind?

Q: How do you think other people can get involved? How did you promote other people to help you in getting involved?

Q: Does your interest in CWS involve any other part of your life? Your major? Do you see a future in this issue?

Of course these are all jumping off points for topic discussions. Caroline and I have a close relationship so I am not worried about her feeling uncomfortable, I have a feeling the second I ask her a question the interview will easily take off from there. I chose to write a story about Caroline and her experience with CWS because I love to read about real world problems and positive outcomes and solutions so I wanted to also write something I was passionate about. My overall goal is to create a final movie, including images of Caroline and her trip to Africa, voiceover audio from our interviews and some text to carry the viewer through.