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Our volunteer
administrative staff:
Beth
Dearden, MA (Co-Founder and Director of World Link Partners)
Beth has a
Masters Degree in Cross-Cultural training from The School of
International Training, Brattleboro, Vermont.
Prior to her work in Guatemala, she established and
managed a children's street children's project in
Ulaanabaatar, Mongolia and provided financial support for an
orphanage in Darkan, Mongolia. Currently she lives and
works in Guatemala. She works to provide support
for NGO's/projects who focus on micro credit, education,
health, water/sanitation, and women's and children's issues. Her
international living and travel, along with the wonderful
people she has met has inspired her work.
Marlin
Dearden, DrPH, MPH (Co-Founder of World
Link Partners)
Marlin is a graduate of the Dept. of
Epidemiology and Public Health, Yale School of
Medicine.
Most of his professional life has been in
academics. For the past 28 years he has been on the faculty of
Health Services Administration and Management at Quinnipiac
University in Hamden, Connecticut. He has also been the Dean
of the School of Health Sciences at Quinnipiac.
For 20
years he established and conducted student travel and semester
abroad trips throughout the world. The purpose of these trips
was the study health
systems in developing countries.
His
work includes international health education, acquisition of
funding for numerous health projects in Mongolia and
Guatemala, Public Health and Management consultation,
procurement and distribution of medical resources to NGO's,
hospitals, clinics, etc.
We work with numerous volunteers who unselfishly devote
their time to manage projects, to connect us with
projects in need, to provide medical goods and services and
share with others what we are doing.
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