BREAKING NEWS: They did it!  And they've raised more than $5000 for our greenhouse program.  Martin Dunphy writes:

Climber to Scale Kilamanjaro for Kham

This August, 2004, an Irish mountain climber is traveling to Africa to raise funds for sustainable development in Kham. All proceeds of Martin Dunphy's climb will go toward expanding our greenhouse program. For details, contact martin.dunphy@marlincapitaleurope.com. Or, you can send your donation directly to us (be sure to reference the Kilamanjaro Climb).

The team

Martin Dunphy has worked in the US, Asia and Europe in senior management positions in the financial services, telecommunications, and insurance industries. He has held positions of Chief Representative, Business Development Director and was National Sales & Marketing Director of China for the world's largest medical assistance company before relocating to London. Dunphy is Vice President Europe for Marlin Capital Europe and Chairman of Marlin Financial Services a leading financial services company located in the UK He is an active member of several charity organisations in developing countries and regularly participates in fundraising marathons and biking expeditions. He holds a Bsc degree in Marketing and an MBA. He has previously biked across the Tibetan Plaeteau on a Kham Aid Foundation charity bike ride. He speaks Mandarin Chinese.

Jim Hasle is President of Mikunda, Cottrell & Co. Alaska Largest full service CPA Firm based in Anchorage. Previous to this, Jim headed up Gov't Contract practice at McGladrey's Northern Virginia practice. Jim is an avid sports man and has completed numerous mountain climbs including  Mt Rainier among others. He is a member of the AICPA and a member of advisory committee for the Dean of Business for the University of Alaska Anchorage.
 
Teri G Dunphy is an international development consultant with 15 years experience overseeing programmes for USAID, the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank and agencies of the UN in Asia and other developing regions.  She has spent much of the last 10 years working and living in China, on assignment for American and European development organizations. Her work activities include several development areas, such as poverty alleviation, women in development, and transitional economies restructuring. Her most recent assignments have been in the field of intellectual property rights.  She is a French and Chinese-speaking Taoist, and the mother of a girl, Georgia, aged 5, and a boy, Elijah, aged two, both of whom also speak Chinese.  Her last climb was Mt. Agung on the Island of Bali. Her favourite passage is in Hesse's Siddhartha, when he is the ascetic, to the courtesan; "I can fast, I can wait, and I can meditate, and with those, I have everything .... "
 
Patricia Frustace was bitten by the travel bug at an early age, being a military brat she had traveled to a number of locations before her family settled in the Washington DC area. Patricia decided one day about 2 years ago that personal volunteering, while satisfying, wasn’t as much as she could be doing to help others, so she joined the American Red Cross.  Two years and about 10 disasters later…. She finds herself looking for additional opportunities to give back to her community (whether it be local or global).  Even now she dabbles her toes in the waters of self employment, seeking to create a not for profit adventure travel company that seeks to give money back to the communities traveled through, stressing her own life motto of putting your feet where your heart is. In her spare time she trains for Ironman distance triathlons and , snow boards and plays soccer.