Young Alumna to Serve World Concern in Burma

Taylor Jashinsky ’14 will serve as a communications liaison for the next two years in Southern Asia with World Concern, a Christian non-profit committed to developing sustainable communities in poverty stricken areas around the world.

Jashinsky will live in Burma/Myanmar and will travel to multiple countries, including Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Laos and Vietnam, documenting the work of World Concern through photography, interviews, videography, storytelling and more. She will be World Concern’s first communications liaison in Asia.

“I hope to be able to use my passion and skills to reach some of the most unreached people, allowing their voices and stories to be heard and seen,” she says.

Jashinsky first discovered World Concern on her way home from a 2013 Emmaus Road trip to Madagascar. She met Santa Barbara native Kelly Ranck, who was serving as World Concern’s communication liaison in the Eastern Africa region.

“I knew the moment we sat down and talked that God had quite literally brought me half way around the world to meet someone from Santa Barbara with the exact job I had dreamed about,” she says. Ranck encouraged her to apply for a position with World Concern, and after several months, she received a job offer.

While at Westmont, Jashinsky studied on Europe Semester 2011 and later traveled to Guatemala and Madagascar with Emmaus Road.

“Westmont taught me how to apply what I was learning in the classroom to life in some of the poorest countries on earth,” she says. “This has been vital in my pursuit of being an advocate, learner, traveler, communicator, documenter and storyteller on behalf of those very people.”

Jashinsky is raising funds in hopes of leaving for Asia at the end of this year. For more information, visit her blog http://taylor.worldconcern.org/.