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Update on Child Death Prevention in Mali
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| I'm a Kristen with an "-En," which is technically the masculine spelling, as I'm named after my very Danish great-grandfather. I just thought "Kristinnamin" seemed the more phonetic spelling of the nickname I've had since I was 17. I enjoy and take pride in doing quality work, helping out, and learning new things. Currently, I'm the daytime manager at a small, "mom & pop"-type dog kennel in a little Texas town, a chauffeur/babysitter for two children under the age of twelve, and I'm working on finishing my Bachelor of Arts degree in economics and sociology at Southwestern University. I also play oboe semi-professionally and even played a solo in concert at Carnegie Hall once (in high school). I've studied abroad in southwestern Turkey (Elmali/Hacimusalar) and Bamako, Mali (West Africa). Also abroad, I've visited England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, France, Italy, Austria, Switzerland, Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Jamaica, and Mexico. I've also been to many places in the United States and hope to go to many more. I love travel, but I'm just as content simply spending hours outside alone trying to get nice photos out of my own backyard. Sometimes I'm lucky and other times I just get a nice farmer tan. ;-D --- LISTEN to my Music Playlist @ [link] --- Quotations, not of mine, but meeting my hearty approval: "Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis." -Ralph Waldo Emerson "In wildness is the preservation of the world." -Henry David Thoreau "Against criticism a man can neither protest nor defend himself; he must act in spite of it, and then it will gradually yield to him." -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
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- Current Residence: Lake Jackson, Texas
- deviantWEAR sizing preference: Medium
- Interests: consideration, films, music, shows, socioeconomics, gardening, oboe, sketching, photography
- Favourite movie: Cold Mountain, 500 Days of Summer, Robin Hood: Men in Tights, The Fall, Slumdog Millionaire
- Favourite band or musician: Muse
- Favourite genre of music: Progressive Rock
- Favourite artist: Alfonse Mucha
- Favourite poet or writer: Vladimir V. Nabokov, Michael Pollan, Sylvia Plath, E.E. Cummings
- Favourite style of art: Art Nouveau
- Operating System: Windows XP
- MP3 player of choice: Zen Vision: M, iPod Shuffle
- Favourite game: Fallout 3, Loaded Questions, Let's Kill!, Oregon Trail II
- Favourite gaming platform: Nintendo Wii
- Favourite cartoon character: Yuki Soma (Fruits Basket)
- Tools of the Trade: Samsung S730, MS Office Picture Manager, Loree oboe, pencil & paper
- Website: http://www.playlist.com/kristenmd
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I wish we could really meet each other, shake hands, sit somewhere on this beautiful planet drink good wine and hear each other laugh!!!!
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Well, when you get to Mali (as I'm sure you will someday), you need to visit Dogon country--it looks like something right out of a dark fairy tale. While hiking the Bandiagara Escarpment, if a dragon had suddenly flown over my head, I almost wouldn't have been surprised. But there are many intriguing people and places in Mali. I saw glimpses of many, though I mostly stayed in Bamako when I studied there in the Spring (dry season) of '07.
Unfortunately, I only had a really pathetic film camera with me at the time and was so leery of the photo developing places there that I waited until I got home to see how most of my pictures turned out.
I interned with the Mali Health Organizing Project (malihealth.org) in a slum in Bamako. I'm an economics & sociology student, so my job was to research microfinance organizations there and abroad to help them find out how they could best utilize microfinance to help people in the slum alleviate some of the horrible, intensely debilitating poverty from which they suffer. Then, in the summer of that year, they used the findings and recommendations from my report and started making small, manageable business loans to local, entrepreneurial women. Since its inception, MHOP has made more than 100 microfinance loans in addition to all the other wonderful things the program does. Caitlin (MHOP's founder) has told me they still give all new volunteers a copy of my report to have and read as it's been so useful.
Here's a little video clip of the founder and the organization if you're interested: [link]
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I wish we could really meet each other, shake hands, sit somewhere on this beautiful planet drink good wine and hear each other laugh!!!!
Website... kinda: [link]
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[link] Art is Resistance Gallery
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Daisy-June
You'll only go as far as you let yourself.
I updated my journal with some fresh form the film scanner/digital camera photographs. The images are of my recent 12 day trip to Lesotho. It forms part of my ongoing Photo-Documentary project. Please have a look! [link]
P.S. I hate to be but I only have 1 week left of my sub :sad: Any assistance would help.
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I wish we could really meet each other, shake hands, sit somewhere on this beautiful planet drink good wine and hear each other laugh!!!!
Website... kinda: [link]
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