SNEWS -- SNEWS® Live: Pro kayaker Jessie Stone paddles the Great White Nile and provides malaria relief in Uganda

Welcome Guest (Login),

HOME | ABOUT US | SUBSCRIBE | MANAGE ACCOUNT | CONTACT US

SNEWS® Live: Pro kayaker Jessie Stone paddles the Great White Nile and provides malaria relief in Uganda

Posted: 11/23/2007 In Category(s): Outdoor, Podcasts :: News Feature Audio

	Printable Version
	E-Mail to a Friend
	RSS

This edition of SNEWS® Live is brought to you by SNEWS®

SNEWS® Live: Professional kayaker Jessie Stone is also a doctor of medicine. When it came time to settle into a hospital internship program, though, Stone put aside her lab coat and stethoscope and picked up a whitewater paddle and PFD.

But don't think she's letting her medical degree go to waste. Between days paddling the rapids of the Great White Nile River through Central Africa, Stone operates a non-profit organization in Uganda that works toward the prevention and treatment of malaria. Called Soft Power Health, Stone's organization provides education and supplies to help stop the spread of malaria, which kills between 1 million and 3 million children in sub-Saharan Africa every year.

SNEWS® Live caught up with Stone on the phone at her New York home just one day before she headed back to the small Ugandan clinic she now runs.

Listen now:

Download file: Right click, select save target as.

Subscribe to the SNEWS® Freebie* and
get a taste of SNEWS® for free.
Click here for details
*new qualified subscribers only

Subscribe directly to SNEWS® Live by clicking on either button below:

SNEWS® Live is produced by SNEWS® Production Studios. To learn about the benefits of placing your advertising on SNEWS® Live or to submit a story idea you believe would be perfect for a SNEWS® Live report, send an email to SNEWSLive@snewsnet.com.

SNEWS® CHAT -- Have a comment, idea, retort, or an engaging thought that was inspired by this article or from our opinions expressed in the SNEWS® View? You've come to the right place.

The SNEWS® Rules of Engagement:
While we value unfettered opinion and open, free debate, we do insist that you to show respect and courtesy for people or companies about whom you comment - we know, how old school of us. We remind you that the intent of the section is to allow all SNEWS® subscribers an opportunity to participate in a public, professional community discussion, in keeping with our 'Creating Community Through Communication' mantra. SNEWS® reserves the right to edit or refuse the publication of remarks that we deem unsuitable. We may also correct for unintended spelling and grammatical errors...or not.

Begin the discussion by clicking here.