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Mallory Brown, Founder of Walk a Mile
Mallory Brown, Founder of Walk a Mile
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64 minutes
Released:
Nov 22, 2019
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Podcast episode
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In this episode, we sit down with Mallory Brown, impact storyteller, humanitarian filmmaker and founder of Walk A Mile. A marathon journey to walk 26 miles in the shoes of 26 different females working hard to get their families out of poverty. We discuss everything from her first trip to a developing country during college that sparked her drive in this field, all the way to her current endeavors with Walk A Mile, which takes us from displacement camps in Haiti to Syrian refugee camps.This begins with Mallory taking a school trip to Southeast Asia where she had a bike accident which led to her having to receive medical help and realizing how basic their medical care was compared to what we are used to in the United States. This experience changed her perspective and she then knew that she wanted to make it her goal to help as many people as possible across the globe.That trip sparked her to visit more developing countries soaking up as much culture and experiences she could which then narrowed down to what is now her specialty of making short documentaries about charities around the world and the people that they help.Her first fundraising trip was to Haiti after the devastating earthquake in 2010, where she visited the displaced persons camps housing all of the refugees that had nowhere to stay after the disaster. She met a family there and her story of how she helped them is breathtaking.From there we go into one of her next projects which was going to Greece to visit the Syrian refugee camps and see where and how she would be able to help. This story dives into the relationships she built as well as how she took the risk to be smuggled INTO the refugee camp to get the first-hand experience and meet the people living there, even though no outsiders were allowed in the camp. From there she went to raise almost $48,000 to help outfit the schools that these refugees were going to.To wrap up the episode we talk more in-depth about her project Walk A Mile where Mallory visits 26 countries to make 26 short film documentaries about 26 different women from 26 different cultures and their different approaches to pulling their families out of poverty.We are so lucky to have people like Mallory Brown doing such great things for us on this planet and hope that you all enjoy hearing her story as much as we did, and hope it inspires you to go make an impact too! http://travelmal.com/https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4nt5Phuday7oHtqr3t8qRw
Released:
Nov 22, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode
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