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This is an exercise to help students identify social entrepreneurs and what kinds of projects or work they are involved in. This exercise will help you develop your own essay. Even if you are a continuing student, do the exercise. There are new posts. You don't have to respond to the assignment until 11/10 unless you want to get a head start on the project/research essay.
Respond to 3 stories
Post your Frontline World Responses (3) here.
Don't forget to answer the following questions in your response to the program.
What is a social entrepreneur?
What is a philanthropist?
Outline:
1.Who is the social entrepreneur profiled?
2.What problem did the person profiled identify?
3.What is the name of the organization they started?
4.Describe their relationship to the community that they serve?
• Why they decided to address this issue?
5.What is the local component?
6.How does the community own the process?
Visit http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/stories/socialentrepreneurs.html
This is an exercise to help students identify social entrepreneurs and what kinds of projects or work they are involved in. This exercise will help you develop your own essay. Even if you are a continuing student, do the exercise. There are new posts. You don't have to respond to the assignment until 11/10 unless you want to get a head start on the project/research essay.
Respond to 3 stories
Post your Frontline World Responses (3) here.
Don't forget to answer the following questions in your response to the program.
What is a social entrepreneur?
What is a philanthropist?
Outline:
1.Who is the social entrepreneur profiled?
2.What problem did the person profiled identify?
3.What is the name of the organization they started?
4.Describe their relationship to the community that they serve?
• Why they decided to address this issue?
5.What is the local component?
6.How does the community own the process?
posted by Professor Wanda's Posse at 4:12 PM
8 Comments:
curtis
Janet Tobias
in rwanda during the early 90's there was a mass battle between the hutu's and tootsie's, both of which are the tribes in rwanda. the violence was so bad that nearly one million people ended up dying from the violence that occured. she traveled to rwanda to see a project that the university of columbia was building to help the people of rwanda with there living situation.billions of dollars have been aided to rwanda and finally it is starting to turn around
john Nevado
John Nevado, a progressive grower in Latacunga, 56 miles south of Quito, is one of the leaders of the fair trade movement. he has fought hard to improvethe rights of workers.
Recognized as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum, Nevado uses sustainable techniques such as growing chamomile to ward off certain pests, introducing spiders to eat other pests and using chili and garlic spray in lieu of chemical pesticides
Chesi Brown
English: 1A
November 12, 2008
Frontline World Responses:
Ecuador: Flower Power
Fair trade roses for Valentine's Day
What is a social entrepreneur? A social entrepreneur is someone who recognizes a social problem and uses entrepreneurial principles to organize, create, and manage a venture to make social change. Whereas a business entrepreneur typically measures performance in profit and return, a social entrepreneur assesses success in terms of the impact s/he has on society. While social entrepreneurs often work through nonprofits and citizen groups, many work in the private and governmental sectors.
What is a philanthropist?
Philanthropy is the act of donating money, goods, services, time and/or effort to support a socially beneficial cause, with a defined objective and with no financial or material reward to the donor. In a more general sense, philanthropy may encompass any altruistic activity intended to promote good or improve human quality of life. One who practices philanthropy may be called a philanthropist. Although such individuals are often rich, people may perform philanthropic acts without possessing great wealth.
Outline:
1.Who is the social entrepreneur profiled?
Michael Conroy, board chairman of TransFair USA, a fair-trade-certifying agency for the U.S., and John Nevado.
2. What problem did the person profiled identify?
The problem is, women mostly work in the follower industry and they are been treated on fairly. Women who are pregnant are force to quit their job; women are force to work when sick. women have no daycare for their children, The blood form farmer who are slaughting cows are going into the rivers and polluting the water.
3. What is the name of the organization they started?
Flower Label Program (FLP)
4.Describe their relationship to the community that they serve?
Michel Conroy and John Nevado are very concerned with the women who work at their business, so they created a childcare on the job for their workers. Women are allowed to have sick days off, and last but not least the women are able to take out a Micro loan to build or create what they desirers. John expresses, “One of the effects of the fair trade system is that you're empowering people by not only giving them extra money.”
5. Why they decided to address this issue?
They wanted to focus on providing certified flowers, a chemical free land, a fair-trade-certified farm in Ecuador; they also wanted the worker to have the advantage to take classes in rudimentary finance, accounting, and project management, to manage the extra money they make."
6. How does the community own the process?
They community owns their money, and whatever they decided to do with their money they are not limited. The loans are theirs and they also own their knowledge on organic production, the women have the skills to build their own farm if they to provide a healthier environment for their self and families.
Great details Chesi. Include the location of the business in your description. I didn't notice an answer to the question of what drew the entrepreneur to this particular venture and if the business person is from the place where he has set up shop. You answered the questions in our coversation, that the owner and his employee are white men, non-native. You said the employee convinced his employer to think about going organic and looking at a way to help the women they employ develop their business skills. I think you mentioned how the women could take out loans and how some of the women were able to become self-employed. Good start!
WS
Shukada Mitcher - India(Hole in the Wall)
India lives in poverty level and only ¼ have access to clean water while half are illiterate. A man named, Shakuda Mitcher who works at a company called NIIT decided to install a computer right outside the company facing the street. His passion was to educate children so he told the children who were curious about the computer to use it if they like since whatever is on their side, they are allowed to touch/use. There was one boy named Roger who was actually able to teach himself how to use the computer. Everyday the computers are opened, children run as fast as they can to be the first to be using the computer to play games, read articles, basically everything you can do on the internet. Mitcher was excited that so many children were educating themselves with that computer in the wall, so he decided to install more throughout the country.
John Wood-Nepal
Almost 7% of Nepal are illiterate. A young 9 year old girl named Sabina Timilsina who hopes to be a doctor one day and was chosen to receive a scholarship so she can go to school and finish high school. The scholarship program chose Sabina because she and her family share one room all together which mean there are 5 people living in one room. Sabina’s parents break rocks as construction. John Wood came to Nepal with 8 donkeys carrying loads of books for the children of Nepal. John Wood actually was working for Microsoft but left that company to help the poor instead of helping people who already have enough money. He created an organization called ‘Room to Read’ which expanded to at least 7 other countries and expanding at least 1,000 libraries.
Trevor Field-Play Pump
In South Africa, there are 5 million people who have no access to clean water. Women pump water and have to walk all the way home with the bucket on top of their head when they should be home with their children. Stinkwater, pretty much says it for itself that the place has water that is stinky. Trevor Field made a lot of money in the advertising business and when he turned the age of 42, he decided to give back to the people. Trevor had an idea of creating a pump that is much easier for everyone to get their water so he created the ‘play pump’ which cost about 7 thousand to install and can pump up to 4 hundred gallons per hour. It is also installed in schools for the children to play yet at the same time pumping water. The Play Pump lets about 2,500 people have access to water. Trevor Field was able to receive 16.4 million from the first lady to build more Play Pumps.
Social entrepreneurs often seem to be possessed by their ideas, committing their lives to changing the direction of their field. Social entrepreneurs find what is not working and solve the problem by changing the system, spreading the solution, and persuading entire societies to take new leaps. They are ambitious and persistent, tackling major social issues and offering new ideas for wide-scale change.
Philanthropy is the effort or inclination to increase the well-being of humankind, as by charitable aid or donations. One who loves mankind, and seeks to promote the good of others. Applies to any volunteer or to anyone who makes a donation, but the label is most often applied to those who donate large sums of money or who make a major impact through their volunteering, such as a trustee who manages a philanthropic organization.
Khalid arghandiwal
Eng 1A
frontline world social entrepreneurs videos
Khalid arghandiwal
Eng 1A
frontline world social entrepeneurs videos
Guatemala: the secret files
Mozambique: guitar hero
What is a social entrepreneur?entrepreneurs are essential of innovation and progress, in the business world they act as engines of growth harnessing opportunity and innovation to fuel economic advancement.Social entrepreneurs act similarly, tapping inspiration and creativity, courage and fortitude, to seize opportunities that challenge and forever change established, but fundamentally inequitable systems.
What is a philanthropist?Philanthropy is the act of donating money, goods, services, time and/or effort to support a socially beneficial cause, with a defined objective and with no financial or material reward to the donor. In a more general sense, philanthropy may encompass any altruistic activity intended to promote good or improve human quality of life. One who practices philanthropy may be called a philanthropist. Although such individuals are often rich, people may perform philanthropic acts without possessing great wealth.
Outline:
Clark boyd
guatemal: the secret files
1.Who is the social entrepreneur profiled? guatemal: the secret files:clark boyd
2.What problem did the person profiled identify? The problem identified in the video Guatemala: the secret files is that the people wanted to end the war that has been happening since the 1900’s.3
3.What is the name of the organization they started? memoria verdad y justica
4.Describe their relationship to the community that they serve? they wanted to go through the documents and find out what happened during the bloodiest war in Guatemala history. so they got help from California in napa a place called benetech.
Why they decided to address this issue? they decided to address this issue after they went through some documents that were left from the war
Marjorie mcafee
Mozambique: guitar hero
Who is the social entrepreneur profiled? Marjorie mcafee
What problem did the person profiled identify? .the problem identified in Mozambique: guitar hero is that Mozambique and his band want to teach about the importance of hiv the community sanitation. so they sing a song about toilet.
3.What is the name of the organization they started? asthmas
4.Describe their relationship to the community that they serve? there main purpose in the community is that they wanted to install toilets and also water pumps.
• Why they decided to address this issue? they wanted to address this issue because they wanted to get rid of health problems so they started an organization called astmas
5.What is the local component? a local component is constituent part; element; ingredient
6.How does the community own the process? the community goes through the process of documents to find out what happened in the war.in the Mozambique: guitar hero the community set up a play about infadality and infection,so
Philanthropist: An individual with altruistic concern for human welfare and advancement, usually manifested by donations of money, property, or work to needy persons, by endowment of institutions of learning and hospitals, and by generosity to other socially useful purposes.
Social Entrepreneur: A person who innovates in ways that truly transform our interconnected world, whose ideas and organizations create new and sustainable markets and services that benefit underserved communities everywhere in the developing world. In a nutshell, individuals whose ideas leap beyond charity to find systemic solutions to poverty, education, health and social justice.
Paraguay: Sounds of Hope
1. Who is the social entrepreneur profiled?
Luis Szaran-a famous Paraguayan conductor and musician who has dedicated himself to helping redeem the lives of poor and neglected children through music.
2. What Problem did the person identify?
Orphan children in the slums throughout Paraguay whose psyches had been deteriorated from a lack of structure due to the void left in their lives due to hunger, violence, poverty and lack of love.
3. What is the name of the organization they started?
Sounds of the Earth, which is inspired by & modeled after Jesuit schools which Luis attended as a child.
4. Describe their relationship with the community they serve, why they decided to address this issue?
As a native of Paraguay, Luis has had many opportunities extended to him that others in his country have not. As a result, Luis has taken it upon himself to alleviate the hardships and ills of poverty upon the youth in the slums of his native country through music. As founder of Sounds of the Earth, Luis plays an active role as teacher even though he allows his organizations to run autonomously. They also facilitate food distribution in the communities they serve as well as organizing community concerts.
5. What is the local component?
New schools are being opened across Paraguay at an exponential rate. This allows the youth to learn a craft and gives them jobs as teachers in the organization. Luis mentions: “Music is just a pretext to create social networks & social change in Paraguay.”
6. How does the community own the process?
Luis uses his wealth to give the students resources like free brand new instruments and still allows them to run independently. They also hold positions as teachers within the various schools.
India: Hole in the Wall
1. Who is the social entrepreneur profiled?
Dr. Shugara Mitra, head of a technology firm in New Delhi India, who in 1999 took upon himself the task of spreading free computers with high speed internet access across impoverished Indian slums. When the children were allowed to use the computers without interference they created terms to describe the tool they had formerly been so unfamiliar with and became autodidactic.
2. What problem did the person identify?
He identified that illiteracy, stratification, poverty and access to resources greatly contributed to the “digital divide” that exists in India.
3. What is the name of the organization?
NIIT, the Indian technology firm Dr. Mitra works for, has assisted in his philanthropic endeavors by providing computers.
4. Describe their relationship with the community that they serve, why they decided to address this issue?
Dr. Mitra wanted to end segregation between “cyber and non-cyber people” & stratification (in an already abundantly stratified country) through access to technology.
5. What is the local component?
The children are self-taught and due to that they are becoming computer literate and their self-confidence is soaring. It is also empowering gender equality because girls are allowed to participate whereas in India there exists a significant amount of gender inequality.
6. How does the community own the process?
The computer is on their side of the wall separating the firm and the slum, therefore it intentionally was built for and belongs to them.
Guatemala: The Secret Files
1. Who is the social entrepreneur profiled?
Jim Fructerman, CEO of Benetech & Carla Villagran, chief Human Rights investigator of the Guatemalan Police.
2. What problem did the person identify?
Over the last 30 years Guatemala has engaged in a bloody civil war. For years after the war, the government denied the existence of a national police archive which could potentially include information concerning family members which had gone missing during the civil war. When a munitions dump exploded exposing the missing archive, the Guatemalan people looked for closure. Benetech stepped in assisting with the digital archiving of the original police archives so that this record of violations of human/civil rights would not be lost to history.
3. What is the name of the organization?
Benetech
4. Describe their relationship with the community that they serve, why they decided to address this issue?
Many Guatemalans had lost close kin during the turbulent and violent past which had gripped the country for the better part of 30 years. Carla Villagran, along with other Guatemalans, wanted reconciliation for the atrocities committed during the civil war. The Human Rights Investigators decided the best way to organize the vast amount of information discovered in order to try those guilty of atrocities would be to digitally archive them.
5. What is the local component?
The locals wanted answers to what happened to their family members and who was responsible. Access to this information will heal many post-civil war wounds when the transgressors are brought to justice.
6. How does the community own the process?
The community where are archives are being taken have over 100 community members on staff. This has given younger people jobs along with a sense of urgency and purpose. It has bestowed upon the community work with implications towards the future and correcting the mistakes made in the past.
By the way, I sincerely enjoyed this assignment!
What is a social entrepreneur? A social entrepreneur is someone who recognizes a social problem and uses entrepreneurial principle to organize, create, and manage a venture to make social change.
What is a philanthropist? is the act of donating money, goods, services, time and/or effort to support a socially beneficial cause, with a defined objective and with no financial or material reward to the donor.
Outline:
1.Who is the social entrepreneur profiled?
2.What problem did the person profiled identify?
3.What is the name of the organization they started?
4.Describe their relationship to the community that they serve and why they decided to address this issue?
5.What is the local component?
6.How does the community own the process?
Show 1
1. Philisiano DelSanto
2. Hygiene
3. Estamos
4. Growing up there he knows how hard it is to have clean water, something we take for granted, he was affected with polio as a child and it coasted him half of his leg.
5.
6.Information is knowledge, knowing and having personal hygiene is vary important.
Show 2
1.Aurda Elena Fanrfan
2.What happened during the war
3.Memoria Verdad Y Justica
4. Many people were killed and no one to answer for it, her brother was one of the victims
5.
6. Remembering what has been forgotten, leaning from pass mistakes.
Show3
1. Dr. Marc Lieberman
2. Cataract is leading cause of blindness in the world, a cataract is a clouding that develops in the crystalline lenses of the eye or in its envelope, varying in degree from slight to complete opacity and obstructing the passage of light. Early in the development of age-related cataract the power of the lens may be increased, causing near-sightedness
3. Tibet Vision Project
4. Most of the clients involved are varying old, but vary graceful living in a worn down land.
5. What is the local component?
6. By learning what needs to be thought and teaching those who are willing.
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