Interview with Kilian Kleinschmidt, Veteran Aid Worker in the DRC and Pakistan : Mukesh Kapila / Fading Causes

Shared by Niloufar Pourzand

This first episode is part of a new series entitled The Fading Causes Podcast that I host with collaborators at Impact Newswire. That schedules releasing an episode every fortnight or so. Please follow/subscribe if interested. Watch below via Youtube or on Spotify or where-ever you get podcasts. Also via my own website, in due course. 

 Mukesh

More podcasts by Mukesh can be found on his website https://www.mukeshkapila.org

My venture into #podcasts starts through a colourful entrepreneurial character and experienced #humanitarian. He is Kilian Kleinschmidt who has been to wars and disasters everywhere, and was dubbed the Mayor of Zaatari when he was running that mega #refugee camp in Jordan. Countless misfortunes later, why is he still optimistic and so stubborn?

 

By the way, podcasting is a new (for me) venture, and your comments and suggestions are appreciated including on future topics. They don't have to be only on humanitarian/human rights/international affairs topics. 

 For example, a future episode covers my conversation with a fashion model in which I took the opportunity to get some tips from her on how I could become one too, despite my advanced wear and tear. Perhaps, a supplementary career awaits for me? Unlikely, but it was comforting to learn that although I may be a "fading cause", I am not yet a lost one.

In similar vein, if you want to appear on the series as my guest, please don't be shy in dropping me a message. You dont have to be famous or a model, but must be interesting and open.