http://www.suntimes.com/sports/quickhits/2080954,kournikova-haiti03.article
March 3, 2010
Kournikova's world perspective
By Elliott Harris
Where in the world is Anna Kournikova?
Good question. The answer: It depends. Possibly on the day of the week, possibly on what in the world is happening.
The former tennis star and perp
etual Quick Hits favorite has been busy with travels to to Haiti and her native Russia.
She recently has been involved with relief efforts in Haiti.
In the March issue of Capitol File, she said, ''What I saw in Haiti was just ridiculous. When I spent summers in the [Russian] countryside with my great-grandmother, running around barefoot, at least we had water, we had fields, we could grow food and you weren't eating mud cookies.''
''In one Haitian village, the community was so poor that the children ate cookies made of mud. Mud, a little lard and little sugar; just to fill their bellies,” Marshall Towell, director of communications for PSI (formerly Population Services International) told the magazine of Kournikova's time in Haiti. ''Kournikova walked right up to the woman selling them [mud cookies]''
''Marshall wouldn't let me buy a mud cookie,'' Kournikova said. ''I asked him for some Haitian money, and he was like, 'Nope.' But if other eat them, what can happen to me?''
Seeing definitely was believing the plight in Haiti.
''If you read a book,'' she said, ''you get all the facts and statistics, but if you see [suffering and disease] with your own eyes, it really changes your whole understanding.''
Courtesy of FGPR
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