Posted on November 30th, 2009 by Corey Belaief
Written November 30, 2009 by Ilya Brotzky. Your parents get a divorce when you’re five. You have to go live with your Aunt. You go to school. You become the house servant. You decide to run off with your sister to work as maids for room and board. A neighbor tells you he can find [...]
Posted on November 16th, 2009 by ilya.brotzky
I don’t even know where to begin. First and foremost, I want to thank all of the people who came out to the First Annual Fistula Free Charity Date Auction Ball! We raised over $1,500 for the Fistula Free Climb and had a lot of fun along the way. Everything went really smooth thanks to [...]
Posted on November 9th, 2009 by Corey Belaief
Written November 9, 2009 by Ilya Brotzky. This past weekend the members of the Fistula Free Climb team met at Phi Kappa Phi Fraternity, our unofficial head quarters on campus, for our weekly Saturday afternoon meetings. However, this Saturday was a little different because we were about to hold the -dramatic pause- first ever Fistula [...]
Posted on November 6th, 2009 by Corey Belaief
Written November 6, 2009 by Ilya Brotzky. Behind every man stands a great woman. We’ve all heard it before and truer words have never been spoken. In the field of obstetric fistula awareness and woman’s rights, there is arguably no greater man that New York Times columnist and Pulitzer Prize winner Nic Kristof. His NY Times [...]
Posted on October 30th, 2009 by Corey Belaief
Written October 30, 2009, by Ilya Brotzky. Two hundred and fifty dollars. That’s all it takes to transform the life of one woman suffering from obstetric fistula. Last night, I saw how easy it would be to do so and how little we in the first world actually think about it. It was about 9.30 [...]
Posted on October 25th, 2009 by Corey Belaief
Written October 25, 2009 by Ilya Brotzky. Left to Right: Rositsa Simeonova, Nina Daoud, Jennifer Ryan, Kara Pellowe, Ilya Brotzky, Jennifer Brenner, Olumayowa Dayo, Raj Dave, Elizabeth Pines, Amy Chin, Max Liu Not Pictured: Katie O’Leary, Kevin Welch, Katrina Mehringer Help us get one step closer to $100,000 for OperationOF.org
Posted on October 22nd, 2009 by Corey Belaief
Written October 22, 2009 by Ilya Brotzky. beep, beep, Beep, BEEP, BEEP. I wake up with a head ache and roll over to turn off my phone alarm. It’s 10.30 and I should not have spent that extra hour online last night watching youtube videos and generally wasting time. 10.30…10.30! We have a bake sale [...]
Posted on September 22nd, 2009 by Corey Belaief
Written September 22, 2009 by Ilya Brotzky. I’ve been back at Cornell for senior year for about a month now and a lot has happened in terms of the development of what is now known as the “Fistula Free Climb”. From my older posts, you know that it all started with me sitting at my [...]
Posted on September 22nd, 2009 by Corey Belaief
Written September 22, 2009 by Ilya Brotzky. It’s been one week since my decision to climb Mt. Kilimanjaro in January. Since then I’ve contacted Seth Cochran and spoke to him over skype about his trip experience, his life, how I wanted to proceed with my trip and what the next steps would be. We decided [...]
Posted on July 15th, 2009 by Milos Balac
Written July, 15, 2009 by Ilya Brotzky. Date when it all began. “It’s Not The Mountain We Conquer, It’s Ourselves.” Sir Edmund Hillary said that. He was the first person to climb Mount Everest. It’s been one of my favorite quotes since I read it in elementary school and has inspired me to push myself further [...]