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     CATERPILLAR WITH HOPE - my short life path...

I am a former journalist..ex waitress.. today's on of the most respected woman in balkan business.. tomorrows winner in the game of life... My life story is ...long..and hard..but worthy..

I was growing up with my mom..because father left us when i was 2 y.o..... My mom worked very hard as a single parent... we only had help from my family from my mom side (that i love dearly, with all my heart)..my grandmother, my grandfather, aunt and uncle.. but the times were hard...My mom worked in the kindergarten with extremely low wages, so because of that she worked as English tutor at home, and she was cleaning others peoples apartments, and buildings... she worked all the time, from dawn till dusk..baggy eyes, and tired limbs, but focused determination..We have lived in Zagreb, because my mom waned to give me better future in capitol city, more opportunities....The rest of my family was in my wonderful small town Zadar, on Mediterranean coast.. My grandmother also worked at the kindergarten,my grandfather was very respected man in agriculture internationally, and highly educated,.. my aunt an accounted also on minimum wages, and my uncle had a firm that was very modest in business..he was struggling also... When I was in high school, i begen to work wherever I could...in coffee shops, in shops for woman's clothing, in supermarkets as a sales girl..I also was cleaning lady for some apartments and offices, and babysitting...I tryed everything...and i know how to work hard, and i know how it feels to earn every cent...and i also know how it feels not to have anything to eat... To sum everything, we struggled and lived very hard. Why I am telling you all that? Maybe..just a feeling...But I want to write about me, because..I am not one nameless human being, just one number, just a google nobody..today on the Earth, tomorrow forgotten..I am very real, very sincere, very emotional and very honorable..and i live by that rules.. So, when i stopped going to University of Agriculture..one of family friends who was the owner of the biggest national Newspapers in all Balkan area called ''Nacional'', offered me to work for him.. He knew for a long time that i have a great talent for writing,..So i became a journalist..and a very good one! I loved writing stories about human suffering, social subjects, poverty, hard and unfortunate life, abusement and injustice.. I was happy because I felt that I am sensitizing society about other souls that we are living with. All though I was feeling fulfilled, my spirit always waned to go back to Zadar, my litle town by the sea..where the rest of family lived (my grandmother, my grandfather, my aunt and my uncle).. One day, I just told my boss I decided to go and live in Zadar, and I told my mom also, on the same day... she said - where you go-I will go.. My boss (our family friend) also showed understanding , and he told me - Go Hana..I will ask my friend who is working in local newspaper to give you a job, for start..but I guarantee that you wont be happy in small town and small newspapers.. He was so wrong!

I came to Zadar...to my sweet, little, nature covered town surrounded with sea and mountains, animals and my small family that I was longing to be with.. I was working some time as a journalist, also chasing justice for unfortunate ones. In the mean time I was preparing information's to open my own firm..firm that will completely return me to clean andpeaceful nature..closer to animals, to fields, to wood's, to people who are working hard with their hands..who really take an huge effort to earn small amounts of money to feed theirfamilies.. I love people..my goal is to help people..to make their lives happier and easier..to give hope to decent and pure workers, to make them feel for failure as an opportunity. In all that built of my true castles, I lost my grandfather by sudden illness..and few years later...my uncle got a cancer... and agony was slow and unbelievable excruciating.. In life biggest pains, losing closest pols of growth, on my side remained only my mom, my grandmother, and my aunt..three unbelievable wonderful ladies. I pray every day to see their faces whenever I blink..

The core of business idea was originated from a true gentleman, a great man and a famous agronomy expert in the field of fruit-growing, viticulture and wine culture, Dr. Ante Medin, my superb and warm grandfather. The man that was driving extremely modest car, with his doctor title with so much pride. '' Telluris-Medin'' (meaning - from the earth) is the mirror of my upbringing, of my family, of an indescribable childhood, laughter, warmth, hugs, love, and hard fight  … It has been built on memories and dreams that will always exist in its name because of the symbolic that is indelible and eternal. 

The company ''Telluris-Medin'' Ltd is one of the most innovative and unusual companies in the Republic of Croatia, and Balkan in general. It is the only company in Europe and the world that has incorporated elements of the famous ancient Chinese medicine into the gastronomy through consumption of Lumbricus rubellus, the Californian Red Worm inMediterranean dishes, and has promoted the already known and the new delicacies made of snails Helix Aspersa Muller or the Mediterranean snail. One of the company's basic activities is the production of humus of the Californian Red Worm, a highly nutritious organic fertilizer, which is used to treat all kinds of field crops and to enable pure ecological growth and development of plants from the very roots, therefore representing an irreplaceable basis for the maximum growth and healthy fruits.

From time to time, with my team I surpass the boundaries, challenge the taboos, disturb the muses and unite poetry, photography and nature. I named this vision the ANIMA ART because for the first time in Croatia, Europe and the region, live worms and snails have been used on artistic photographs, promoting love towards nature and human interaction with other forms of life. The mission and goal of the enterprise is to take care of the physical and mental health of the man, ..the general philanthropy.... In this way the circle is gradually closing so that after treating plants with the highly nutritional Eco-humus, and gastro-worms and snails, I glorify nature through avant-garde art, joining emotion into a personal expression of poetry.

 I am a person, who knows of no boundaries, does not take no for an answer and is instigated to find a solution to every encountered problem. My team is distinguished by similar qualities...because I chosed people with personal stories, with colorful destinies, with goodness in their heart, with endless depth in their eyes..

They are all exceptional and courageous individuals, ready to take a step forward, to stand out from the uselessness, to put up with the rage of an envious community, to overstep the boundaries of conventionality and to try out what has not been tried out before. I have brought together above all honest, hardworking, good and competent people, who are all capable, ambitious and venturous. The principle of this company is primarily to respect individuality, opinion and initiative. One person can destroy ten others, or encourage a team to reach for the stars.

''Telluris-Medin'' Ltd does not employ business professionals, hardened for years within the business sphere, but an intelligent team of educated people, who have brought in their expertise and the school of life and are giving their best to the company, with complete dedication and joy. The company’s business operations are based on the world market. My many travels all over Europe, Asia and the Middle East and other countries have enriched me both on the personal and professional level. They have also prepared me primarily for the market of the Balkans, and also for all other demanding markets and their principles.

Each success was celebrated by helping people in need. Building of homes for people of lower social standing, providing the service of writing requests to particular municipalities, giving away clothes, helping in food and money, sponsorships, solving of acute problems, are only some of the steps towards human well being that is the foundation of success of this company.

The crown of my expression are children books about nature, ...and real, existing characters living and working on ''Telluris-Medin'' farm, in Zadar... all the books have been illustrated by children with special needs, low social statuses, talented kids and kindergarten groups...This picture books are the framework of my existence and my love towards humanity...

My goal is to employ as many people as I can and to enrich and promote Croatia, and Balkan area as well. ...that's me.... my life-short version as possible..I am just hoping ihaven't bore you...bothered you..or anything like that.. Today there are too many cowards, and so little survivals..

Yours sincerely,

Hana Medin

Owner/CEO

Telluris-Medin d.o.o.

23 000 Zadar, Croatia

Phone: 003859 8132 9380

Fax: 00385 232 76 242

E-mail:hana.medin@yahoo.com

Web: www.telluris-medin.