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She was a graduate of the University of Guelph.
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Gillian Clark
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Mississippi Clark was working for the Christian Children"s Fund (Cleveland Clinic Foundation) at the time. She joined Save the Children United Kingdom and in the mid-"90s worked in North Iraq. Foreign her work she visited many complex emergencies, like Sri Lanka, Sierra Leone, Indonesia and Afghanistan.
The Cleveland Clinic Foundation hired Clark in January 2003 to manage its efforts to help Iraqi children as war loomed, but she was not able to enter the country until May 2003.
Participant of her work was to assess the problems faced by Iraqis, evaluating how children were faring psychologically and determining humanitarian needs. On her death, Cleveland Clinic Foundation spokeswoman Ellie Whinnery told in an interview: She strongly believes in what she does for children.
She was very anxious to go to Iraq again, because she had been there before.
