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Tag: Kirsty-Kakanskas

LivingWell in Zambia, chapter 11: lasting impact

February 22, 2018 KirstyKakanskas

One of the biggest challenges for a PULSE participant is trying to make permanent changes in the organisation you’re supporting. What happens when you leave?

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LivingWell in Zambia, chapter 10: work summary

January 4, 2018 KirstyKakanskas

In finishing my assignment, I wanted to try to sum up the work I’ve been doing with Live Well. I had two very different roles:

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LivingWell in Zambia, chapter 9: birth of a saleswoman

November 8, 2017 KirstyKakanskas

Nobody said it was easy, no one ever said it would be this hard… Aptly enough, a line from The Scientist, by Coldplay, which was

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LivingWell in Zambia, chapter 8: Namibian safari

November 2, 2017 KirstyKakanskas

Because you can’t get too much of a good thing, I decided to take another safari trip – this time to Etosha National Park in

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LivingWell in Zambia, chapter 7: taking Care of visitors

August 31, 2017 KirstyKakanskas

Live Well is a social enterprise business owned by Care. So officially, my PULSE assignment is with Care. In reality, I’ve had little to no

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Living Well in Zambia, chapter 6: training

August 19, 2017 KirstyKakanskas

Live Well has a way of throwing development opportunities at me in the same way that GSK did… most recently in the form of delivering

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LivingWell in Zambia, chapter 5: Victoria Falls

August 9, 2017 KirstyKakanskas

Victoria Falls are the best known attraction in Zambia, if not Southern Africa, given their status as the seventh wonder of the natural world. They

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LivingWell in Zambia, chapter 4: getting down to business

July 29, 2017 KirstyKakanskas

Live Well is a sales business. It’s very different to my experience in GSK; in primary manufacturing, I jump from thinking about the realities of

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LivingWell in Zambia, chapter 3: safari

July 10, 2017 KirstyKakanskas

For our first full weekend in Zambia, we headed east to South Luangwa National Park. Kindly, the government had arranged two bank holidays in our

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LivingWell in Zambia, chapter 2: field trips

July 9, 2017 KirstyKakanskas

Live Well activities cover peri-urban and rural communities, with two hubs: Lusaka (the capital) and Chipata (a town in Eastern Province, near the Malawi border).

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LivingWell in Zambia, chapter 1: From A (application) to Z (Zambia)

June 27, 2017 KirstyKakanskas

I think the theme of the first PULSE blog is similar. We are all filled with trepidation, concerns, fear even. It is significant to change

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