I'm going to be posting more on here because there are a few exciting things happening! First of all, I got an email from Kenya that there is finally going to be an East Coast Daraja fundraiser! Mostly they happen on the west coast, but we got lucky! One of Daraja's greatest supporters (Deborah Santana) will be helping to organize an event out here for December. I'm not sure when or where or how but I will post information as I get it!
Second, I am half way through my first semester at Mount Sinai! Believe it or not, it is already time for me to start thinking about my practicum and thesis preparation. I have TOO MANY ideas and not enough guidance, so I'm looking for anyone who reads my posts and might have a better perspective of what I'm interested. I find that others know me far better than I know myself, so leave me your thoughts! So far this is where my mind is going:
There were a few things that really shocked me and shook me to my core in Kenya
1. the lack of food and (clean) water
2. the lack of medical care/state of the village hospital
3. how damn happy every single child I met was
So obviously that doesn't really mesh into anything coherent. I have found myself doing more and more research on maternal health as well as nutrition - did you know that 15,000 children a day die from malnutrition? I also am taking a class on refugee health and find it fascinating.
So basically I want to supply food and water and medical care to mothers and all the happy children in the world, and also work with refugees. Does that sound like I could make it a thesis?! Also, though I want to go back to Kenya at least to visit, I am also interested in traveling to Thailand and maybe India.... But I can't think of a clever blog name for those places.
Get at me with your ideas! I know I sound like a contestant in a beauty pageant with all this feed the hungry stuff... but what did you expect?!
