Frontline World: Engaged Citizenry Cyber-Assignments
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Respond to 3 stories from Thursday, March 24 to April 18. Bring in headphones for the computer. Post your Frontline World Responses (3) here (on the blog).
Answer the following questions in your response to the program.
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?
5 Why did the person decide to address this issue?
6.What is the local component?
7.How does the community own the process?
Visit http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/stories/socialentrepreneurs.html
Respond to 3 stories from Thursday, March 24 to April 18. Bring in headphones for the computer. Post your Frontline World Responses (3) here (on the blog).
Answer the following questions in your response to the program.
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?
5 Why did the person decide to address this issue?
6.What is the local component?
7.How does the community own the process?
posted by Professor Wanda's Posse at 11:41 PM
28 Comments:
Eleanore Johnston
Professor Sabir
English 1A 9-9:50
24 March 2011
Hero Rats
1. The social entrepreneur profiled was Bart Weetjens, but the real hero is the rats.
2. Bart Weetjens recognized that there was a landmine problem that claimed hundreds of men, women, and children.
3. The organization that Weetjens started is called Hero Rats.
4. Weetjens is not only doing this experiment for the saftey of himself but also for the saftey of his community. He believes that no one should have to die at the site of a landmine.
5. Weetjens decided to address this because it was a growing issue that claimed innocent lives on a daily basis.
6. The community is benefiting from the program and support it one hundred percent. They feel safer knowing that the program is there and catching the mines before they can claim lives.
7. The community loves the new Rat Hero program because it saves lives and uses resources that our plentiful. Since the rats are lighter they work better than dogs that were used in the past and they are a lot more plentiful.
David Guzman
Porfessor Sabir
English 1A 9 a.m.
24 March 2011
Flowers that are changing the world
It's how they are called in Latacunga, Ecuador, a town where I have many friends. It is true that in this area there are large plantations of flowers, and most of the locals work in the Flower industry. For some time this industry was the economic salvation of families in the area, but since 15 years ago workers report respiratory and stomach diseases and it is known that it is because of the pesticides used in the flowers production.
In Ecuador I was aware that ecologist movements wanted to increase the quality of the flowers protecting the health of those who produce them, but these initiatives did not have great support. I worked as a tour guide in Ecuador and as our tour groups passed by Latacunga, we visited small organic flower farms where I encouraged the tourists to buy these kinds of flowers in their countries, but these small producers gradually fall away and then we had no place to bring tourists.
Now I see that the problem is that flowers here in California are very expensive. A bouquet of flowers that I find in Safeway for $ 6, in Ecuador costs $ 1 and if we add 20% for fair trade it is obvious that people do not want to pay $7.20. I think those who should change their minds are the middlemen of flowers, those that take that $ 5 per bouquet in the transportation. Additionally, there should be regulations enforced by the governments of the countries that are buying those flowers, they should accept flowers that are at least free of toxic pesticides.
4 March 2011
Response #3 for Frontline World-India:A New Life:getting children off the streets
1.)The social entrepreneur profiled is, a Catholic Salesian priest, Father Koshy, and Anu Dasaka, a psychologist and high-caste Hindu.
2.)The problem these people identified was that in many Indian cities, large numbers of destitute adults and children were living on the streets, sleeping in every nook and corners in the majority of the cities.
3.)The name of the organization they started is New Life Children's Home (or Navajeevan Bala Bhavan).
4.)New Life Children's Home serves a supportive relationship to the community because they are motivated to help these homeless children every way they can.
5.)Koshy and Dasaka decided to address this issue because they know that children who are homelsee for too long are so damaged by what life has thrown at them that it's unlikely they can be saved.
6.)The local component includes embracing children of all castes and religions, a practice that is not necessarily reflected in Indian society as a whole.
7.)The community owns the process because they continue to help more than 25,000 children come off the streets, runs 12 centers in the city, sheltering and educating both boys and girls.
Summer Hurst
Pro.Sabir
English 1A 9-9:50am
24 March 2011
Response #3 for Frontline World-India:A New Life:getting children off the streets
1.)The social entrepreneur profiled is, a Catholic Salesian priest, Father Koshy, and Anu Dasaka, a psychologist and high-caste Hindu.
2.)The problem these people identified was that in many Indian cities, large numbers of destitute adults and children were living on the streets, sleeping in every nook and corners in the majority of the cities.
3.)The name of the organization they started is New Life Children's Home (or Navajeevan Bala Bhavan).
4.)New Life Children's Home serves a supportive relationship to the community because they are motivated to help these homeless children every way they can.
5.)Koshy and Dasaka decided to address this issue because they know that children who are homelsee for too long are so damaged by what life has thrown at them that it's unlikely they can be saved.
6.)The local component includes embracing children of all castes and religions, a practice that is not necessarily reflected in Indian society as a whole.
7.)The community owns the process because they continue to help more than 25,000 children come off the streets, runs 12 centers in the city, sheltering and educating both boys and girls.
Summer Hurst
Pro. Sabir
English 1A 9am-9:50am
24 March 2011
Response #1: Nepal: A Girl’s Life–Making room to read:
1.) The social entrepreneur profiled is an American named John Wood
2.) The problem that Wood identified was poverty and a small town with illiterate people with a library that didn’t have books.
3.) The name of the organization he started was Room to Read, a literacy program.
4.) Room to Read serves a warm welcoming relationship with the community; it helps young girls in small world countries become literate and highly educated.
5.) Wood decided to address this issue because he felt inspired when the headmaster of the school he visited, proposed a solution: "Perhaps sir, you will someday come back with books."
6.) The local component is that girls should be given an equal opportunity for education in societies which traditionally favor boys.
7.) The community continues to own the process of what started as a project to provide books that have evolved into a full-scale educational campaign to build schools, publish children's books, conduct writing workshops for kids, and offer scholarships.
Summer Hurst
Pro. Sabir
English 1A 9-9:50am
24 March 2011
Response #2-Sierra Leone:Yeabu's Homecoming:Overcoming the stigma of a childbirth injury
1.)The social entrepreneur profiled is a photographer who documented for an American NGO called International Medical Corps (IMC), Jenny chu.
2.)The problem that she identified was that only one obstetric fistula surgeon, Dr. Gadelkareem,was treating these women along with training local doctors to perform the somewhat complicated and expensive surgery.
3.)The name of the organization she started was Mercy Ships,which were known for their ocean vessel hospitals that dock at ports around the world.
4.)Mercy Ships serves a trustworthy relationship to the community
5.)Chu decided to address this issue because it was obvious that the healthcare system was still inadequate and the profits did not make it back to the people, who struggled to earn a decent living.
6.)The local component include women who are poor uneducated, and usually have no idea what they suffer from or that a cure exists.
7.) The community own the process because they built a land-based fistula clinic in Freetown, they treat women who find their way to the clinic, they send outreach teams into the countryside to identify and bring back new patients.
Cody Henneman
Professor Sabir
English 1A 8:00am-8:50am
25 March 2011
1.Who is the social entrepreneur profiled?
Ralf Hotchkiss is the social entrepreneur
2.What problem did the person profiled identify?
Wheelchairs today are not sturdy enough for the developing world and in some places, it is very inconvenient to be in a wheelchair because of the lack of amenities.
So Hotchkiss engineered a wheelchair for all terrains and weathers.
3.What is the name of the organization they started?
Hotchkiss started an organization called "Whirlwind" so that they could market the chairs and transfer technology to factories like Kien Tuoung.
4.Describe their relationship to the community that they serve?
Vietnam is the worlds leader in the number of wheelchair riders. However, it is very inconvenient for wheelchair riders to travel in the cities because there isn't many amenities for wheelchair riders. The "roughrider" was designed so that people have an easier life in wheelchairs.
5. Why did the person decide to address this issue?
Hotchkiss addressed this issue because normal wheel chairs are expensive and the parts are too. No matter where you are, wheel chair riders have an inconvenience that other people who are able to walk do not; that is mobility.
6.What is the local component?
Lack of amenities.
7.How does the community own the process?
the owner of the Kien Tuong factory does quite a bit of charity work like showing up to para-athletic events and offers the "rough rider" to the participants.
Audrey Topacio
Professor Wanda Sabir
English 1A 8-8:50 a.m
25 March 2011
India: Design Like You Give A Damn
1.Who is the social entrepreneur profiled?
Purnima McCutcheon, an American-trained architect
2.What problem did the person profiled identify?
The lack of relief in terms of rebuilding the community after the Tsunami hit Tamil Nadu, India.
3.What is the name of the organization they started?
Architect for Humanity is an organization, not started by the social entrepreneur but she is a member in.
4.Describe their relationship to the community that they serve?
Her clients are villagers and fishermen instead of corporations.
5 Why did the person decide to address this issue?
Because she has always wanted to help communities in need. She found the tsunami event as an opportunity to start helping.
For Purnima McCutcheon, an American-trained architect, the tsunami was only the beginning. For 14 years, her life was on the traditional architect’s track – but after the tsunami, she picked up everything and moved to India to help.
“It’s always been my aspiration to, at some point, work with a community and do something that was more personally meaningful,” she says.
6.What is the local component?
Most workers are local and people are eager to help in building the structures in the town. Also, the people are allowed to participate in designing the buildings.
The help that the local community gives generates income for them, and also it costs less to build the structures.
7.How does the community own the process?
By being part of the building process, there is a sense of ownership built in every person in the community because they have put their own efforts in rebuilding a tsunami-devastated place. It gives them something to be proud of.
Tibet: Eye Camp
Restoring vision at the top of the world
1.Who is the social entrepreneur profiled?
Dr. Marc Lieberman
2.What problem did the person profiled identify?
The lack of help the Tibetan people get for their cataract problems.
3.What is the name of the organization they started?
Tibet Vision Project
4.Describe their relationship to the community that they serve?
The organization performs surgery on people who have cataract problems and also the organization aims to train the Tibetan medical community to do the cataract surgeries themselves."
5 Why did the person decide to address this issue?
He was inspired by the Dalai Lama to do his medical mission.
6.What is the local component?
Although there are some tension between the Tibetan and CHinese officials, the governments try to give the organization the help they need to help the people in Tibet with cataract problems.
7.How does the community own the process?
The Tibetan medical community is trained to perform the surgeries themselves on their own people. This way, there wouldn't be any more problems in dealing with curing the people when Lieberman's organization is hindered from performing their charity work.
David Guzman
Professor Sabir
English 1A 9 a.m.
24 March 2011
Ecuador: Flower Power
1. The social entrepreneur featured in the video is John Nevado from Latacunga, Ecuador.
2. There are two main problems identified with the rose industry in Ecuador. The first issue is the mistreatment of workers. They are exposed to dangerous chemicals, don’t have access to good healthcare, they receive little or no pay at times, and pregnant women are forced to quit work. The other problem is environmental. The industry contaminates the rivers and uses too many dangerous chemicals.
3. The name of the organization is Nevado Roses.
4. This company’s relationship to the community is through its fair trade business. They provide a safe working environment for the workers by using natural ways to control insects and diseases. Also, they pay their workers on time and a fair wage. Also, the workers have access to free day care for their children with hot meals provided so that they don’t have to worry about their families while they are working. The workers also receive organic gardening classes and money management guidance so they can use their profits to benefit their families and the community.
5. John Nevado saw the need to protect the health and general welfare of the Ecuadorian rose workers. He realized through the European flower market that he could sell the organic roses abroad for a little higher price and, in turn, pay his workers fairly while also providing safe working conditions. That is the essence of fair trade.
6. The local component to this process is the local workers that work in the greenhouses. Also, Nevado Roses uses local waste, such as slaughter blood, to create a rich compost for the roses. This waste would have ended up contaminating the rivers in the area.
7. I don’t really see that the community owns this process. The owner of the company ultimately rules the process and if he decided to sell the business tomorrow then the community wouldn’t have any say in the administration of the future business.
Vanessa Dilworth
Professor Sabir
English 1A 9-9:50am
26 March 2011
Frontline: Millennium Village Project
1. The Social Entrepreneurs profiled are Joshua Rucksons and Donald Rwanda.
2. The problem that Joshua and Donald identified was the most severe poverty crisis in the African country, Rwanda.
3. The name of the organization is Millennium Village Project.
4. The relationship the program has on the community is giving them the tools to develop their agriculture, marketable skills, and improving their medical systems.
5. Joshua Rucksons and Donald Rwanda decided to address this issue because they saw that the people of Rwanda were in dire need of medical attention and money they were considered the one of the most poverty stricken countries in Africa.
6. The local component of the program is to help end poverty across Africa and help the people to better themselves and get the countries running on a self-sufficiency level within 5 years.
7. The community owns the process by embracing the organization and changing the crops they grew to more sustainable ones. In doing this they earn more money by developing their own weaving and agriculture businesses using the tools that the organization provides them with. This transformation has helped them cut the deadly disease malaria almost completely out of their country. They have gone from earning no income to receiving enough to sustain their families and country.
Tibet: Eye Camp
1. The Social Entrepreneur profiled is Dr. Marc Lieberman.
2. The problem that the person identified was the worst area in the world of cataract afflictions, in rural Tibetan villages.
3. The name of the organization is called Eye Camp.
4. The relationship he has with the community is built on the native villages providing a functional place for him to teach the doctors there how to perform cataract surgeries and them benefiting from the services.
5. The person addressed this issue because he saw many village Tibetan people losing their sight at an alarming rate due to the high altitude they lived in.
6. The local component is to teach the Tibetan doctors the skills needed to restore the sight to people afflicted with this disease and empower themselves with enough knowledge to run these centers independently and spread to different areas.
7. The community owns the process by learning the tools from Dr. Marc Lieberman and administrating their knowledge to their people with cataract disease.
South Africa: Inside Cape’s Town Pollsmoor Prison
1. The Social Entrepreneur profiled was Chris Malga, warden and therapist at Cape’s Town Pollsmoor Prison.
2. The problem that the person identified was one of the highest rape areas in the world, Cape Town, South Africa ,and tackling the issue of rehabilitation the perpetrators inside the prison.
3. There is no particular name for his counseling center inside the prison.
4. The relationship that he has with the community that he serves is counseling the men in prison and providing them with a safe place so they can understand the causes for their behavior and helping them to identify and protect themselves from their triggers.
5. The person decides to address this issue because many men in Cape Town had been raping women and weren’t being rehabilitated and being released from prison and doing it again.
6. The local component is to embark upon the task of recuperating the men who are contributing to the highest rape crisis in South Africa.
7. The prison community owns the process by participating in the group therapy and changing their destructive behavior.
Audrey Topacio
Professor Wanda Sabir
English 1A 8-8:50 a.m
26 March 2011
Ecuador: Country Doctors
On rough roads and remote rivers
1.Who is the social entrepreneur profiled?
Dr. Rodas
2.What problem did the person profiled identify?
The lack of health resources for poor people in Ecuador.
3.What is the name of the organization they started?
Cinterandes Foundation in 1995
4.Describe their relationship to the community that they serve?
Local healers also help with the mission of these traveling doctors to help them help more people in remote areas. A lot of people benefit from the organization's mission because a lot of them cannot afford to get sick. "Everything is worse when you're not healthy. There's no way to work, no way to earn anything at all."
5 Why did the person decide to address this issue?
He was inspired by the work of Project HOPE (Health Opportunities for People Everywhere) and swore to himself that one day he will take the same initiative to help his country. Doctors face a lot of problems in providing health services to the poor. So, by setting out to change the landscape of rural health in Ecuador he can help more people in getting the health services that they need.
6.What is the local component?
Local people help the organization improvise/get the equipment that they need to perform their task.
7.How does the community own the process?
By accepting the organization's help and taking part in the helping process, more people are getting the help that they need. Also, by becoming healthier, they are able to provide for themselves and possibly help other people in their community. The rural communities would not live a stagnate life in poverty.
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Theodore Lionberger
English 1A
Professor Wanda Sabir
3/28/2011
Vietnam: Wheels of Change
Ralf Hotchkiss, an engineering professor from San Francisco state, lost the use of his legs in a motorcycle accident. Since then, he has designed wheelchairs able to navigate the rough terrain found in the developing world, and has formed an organization for international outreach called Whirlwind Wheelchair International. His crowning achievement is the Rough Rider.
Explaining his decision not to patent the design of his all-terrain wheelchairs, Hotchkiss explains that he wants individuals to modify the design for special needs. A free, open-source design, the Rough Rider is intended to be constructed from basic, widely-available parts. He would like to see a self-sustaining, self-regulating market for such "mountain wheelchairs" to emerge where it is needed the most.
Hotchkiss has collaborated with the disabled community in Vietnam, where wheelchair access is poor at best. He has helped them to get funding from charity organizations so that the wheelchairs can be built, given away, and sold as necessary.
(I have neglected to mention specifically the Vietnamese folks who have benefited from Hotchkiss's inventions and integrated them into their own communities, as I do not know how to spell their names; however, they are the ones who have helped Hotchkiss to improve life for the disabled community within Vietnam and to own the process by seeding a new industry of rough-terrain wheelchairs where they are needed the most.)
Thailea Boykin
Professor Sabir
English 1A 9am
28 March 2011
Egypt: Middle East, INC.
1.) The social entrepreneur profiled in this story was Soraya Salti a Jordanian woman.
2.) The problem Salti say was the lack of job for the youth coming out of college. These youngsters are called the "weeders."
3.) The name of Salti's organization is Injaz stretched over all of Egypt. Injaz is a spin off of the Junior Achievement Program already established else where.
4.) Salti doesn't have a direct connection to the youth that she servers. Salti is merely a women who had the vision and drive to help these "weeders."
5.) Salti's reason for forming this organization is to build future CEO's and entrepreneurs. She wants to catch them before they become unemployed and instill the skill set of a entrepreneur. Salti especially encourages females to take part because they are what the economy is lacking.
6.) They way in which Injaz gives back to the community and economy is by these student businesses coached by mentors, putting together marketable businesses and putting them into effect. Example of one student business was C&P. This student company made and sold dual uses desk bags, C&P was also the willing company in the Injaz competition. Not only is this business providing a need but they are also stimulating the economy with its efforts.
7.) The community at large is very receptive to the Injaz movement. Defiantly if it give the youth something to do beside becoming a burden and causing havoc among the people. At the Injaz Competition the judges were volunteer successful business owners and executives, so that goes to show that the community is by all means involved in what is going on with this organization and its cause.
Thailea Boykin
Professor Sabir
English 1A 9am
28 March 2011
Rwanda: Millennium Village
1.) Josh Ruckson is the social entrepreneur profiled, yet I am not sure if he is the organizer of the organization, maybe just the one in this particular region.
2.) The problem at hand is the below poverty struck village in Rwanda. This like other villages in Africa lack the the basic needs; food, water, and health care.
3.) The name of the organization is Millennium Village.
4.) The community as a whole works together to build agriculture and health care for everyone in the now thriving village. New skills have been adapted by everyone, some help to nourish the crops and other help to nourish babies and sickly individuals.
5.) The reason for addressing this issue is because of the high rate of death and poverty in Rwanda. The basic need for life necessities was not being met and something had to be done. Anything beside what they had would work.
6.) Being that the issues was a local issues the locals were very receptive to anything that could help aid them in survival. By learning new skills in agriculture and medicine the people in Rwanda are grow healthier. By providing "Bednets" Millennium Villages has given life to many babies, if not they would have died.
7.) The community as a whole works together and believe that things are getting better, and they can actually see this. The community is more than supportive they are all active.
Ashante L. Washington
Professor Wanda Sabir
English 1A, 9-950a
29 March 2011
Frontline World: Engaged Citizenry Response to Vietnam: Wheels of Change
Ralf Hotchkiss, an engineering professor at San Francisco State University was the social entrepreneur profiled in the video. Hotchkiss identified that disabled people in developing countries did not have wheelchairs that suited their needs. He founded the organization, “Whirlwind Wheelchairs International” because disabled people in these developing countries do not have any money to purchase wheelchairs. Therefore, his organization transfers technology to factories, markets chairs, and raises money through donations so that disabled people may receive their compatible wheelchair the “Roughrider” for free. The video highlights the factory, Kien Tuong that is operating in Vietnam by Toan Nguyen. This factory builds the “Roughrider” wheelchairs from local accessible materials by economical workers. The disabled members of the community are very appreciative of the invention and donation of the “Roughrider.” It is assisting community members from athletic competitions to grocery shopping and even “dancing” at a celebration.
Ashante L. Washington
Professor Wanda Sabir
English 1A, 9-950a
4 April 2011
Frontline World: Engaged Citizenry Response to India: Design Like You Give a Damn
Purnima McCutcheon, an American trained architect was the social entrepreneur profiled in the video. McCutheon moved to Tamil Nadu, India to aid members of the community that had been victims of the horrific tsunami that hit. She founded the organization, “Architecture for Humanity” because she felt that buildings could make a difference. Therefore, she gathered the town together and requested sketches of buildings they felt were needed in the community and from the list of designs she received she decided to design and create a village hall. Her vision was to create a vision hall where the community can gather for celebrations, large study groups, include restrooms, and possibly a preschool. The video highlights the couple, Kate Stohr and Cameron Sinclair that founded “Design Like You Give a Damn.” Their foundation has a network of architects around the world ready to assist those in need. Their foundation not only aids community members in needs but also helps designers look to aid those in need instead of falling slave to corporate client. The designers come together and create a list of waste materials and think of how they can be used to design different buildings. The community loves the village hall and it has become the center of village life. McCutheon has designed a total of 12 community buildings in India and has returned to the United States.
Jeffrey To
Professor Sabir
English 1A 8-9AM
3 social entrepreneur response
Ecuador: Flower Power
1.Who is the social entrepreneur profiled? The social entrepreneur profiled in the video is
John Nevado
2.What problem did the person profiled identify?The person identified the lack of health and working conditions for local workers.
3.What is the name of the organization they started? The name of the organization is Navada roses.
4.Describe their relationship to the community that they serve? They fought for better working conditions for the community.
5 Why did the person decide to address this issue? The person addresses this issue because he wanted better working conditions for people in the community. People were not getting paid and poor healthcare.
6.What is the local component?
locals People in the community work together for a better and cleaner community.
7.How does the community own the process? It seems like the community do not own the process, the owners and bosses who the locals work for own the process.
Tibet: eye camp
1.Who is the social entrepreneur profiled? The social entrepreneur in the video is Dr. Marc Lieberman.
2.What problem did the person profiled identify?
The person wanted to stop cataracts disease from spreading in the area. Help people who has cataract and are blind.
3.What is the name of the organization they started?
The name of the organization is vision Project.
4.Describe their relationship to the community that they serve?
The person has a good relationship with the community. He set up camps to help the community with the cataract problem and teachers them to help each other.
5 Why did the person decide to address this issue? The person decided to address this issue because the area is poor, the disease was spreading and neighboring Chinese government would not help.
6.What is the local component?
The community and locals did not give him a new building and offered him an old building which was unsanitary and dirty. The locals in the village learned how to be self taught and work in the camp to help others in the community with cataract surgery.
7.How does the community own the process? The community works in the camps and teaches each other cataract surgery.
Vietnam: Wheels of change.
1.Who is the social entrepreneur profiled?Ralf Hotchkiss
2.What problem did the person profiled identify? He wanted to make wheel chairs better for disable people in developing countries. He wanted to make it easier for disable people in their daily life..
3.What is the name of the organization they started?Whirld wheel chair international
4.Describe their relationship to the community that they serve?
The vietnam community has a strong connection with him. The community welcomed him and was grateful of his invention.
5 Why did the person decide to address this issue?He is an engineer who lost his legs in an accident, so he designed a wheel chair to make it more convenient for wheelchair people. He wanted to provide his invention in countries where the people have no money or access to wheel chairs
6.What is the local component? Locals in Vietnam community help make the wheel chairs and give it to people free of charge.
7.How does the community own the process? The community support the disable and host tournaments and celebrations where thet would give out the chairs.
Ashante L. Washington
Professor Wanda Sabir
English 1A, 9-950a
8 April 2011
Frontline World: Engaged Citizenry Response to Ecuador: Flower Power
John Nevado, a progressive grower and leader of the fair trade movement is the social entrepreneur profiled in the video. Ecuador is responsible for supplying almost one-third of America’s long, straight cut roses, but their rose industry is contaminated with harmful pesticides, poor labor practices and corrupt management. Ecuador did not have an alternate way or process of growing the flowers, until they created an alternative process entitled fair-trade-certified flowers. The community is being positively affected by this new system because it is empowering them through education and giving them more money. Nevado, along with other fair-trade farmers, decided to address this issue to improve the working conditions of the workers. The dangerous chemical pesticides was dangerously affecting the health conditions of the workers and making them and their families very sick. Nevado uses things from within the farm to help ward off pests and prevent the use of pesticides such as chamomile, spiders, and chili and garlic sprays. The community loves the fair-trade system because they also offer childcare services at some farms, it’s safer, and it offers them more money
Alex Peña
Professor Sabir
English 1A
8 April 2011
Tanzania: Hero Rats
1. Who is the social entrepreneur profiled?
Bart Weetjens
2.What problem did the person profiled identify?
He found a way to detect and remove land minds in Tanzania.
3. What is the name of the organization they started?
Hero Rats
4.Describe their relationship to the community that they serve?
They provide a safe place for the whole community.
5 Why did the person decide to address this issue?
He wants people to live their lives without any worries.
6. What is the local component?
They train rats. The rats sniff out land mines. And the people gain the freedom to go wherever they want without any problem or fear of their safety.
7. How does the community own the process?
They support them. And are happy to have them around. And the rats can also detect tuberculosis.
Tibet: Eye Camp
1. Who is the social entrepreneur profiled?
Dr. Marc Lieberman
2.What problem did the person profiled identify?
He taught doctors in Tibet modern Cataract eye surgery.
3. What is the name of the organization they started?
He started the eye camp where he teachers doctors to do the operations and perform surgery on poor people.
4. Describe their relationship to the community that they serve?
They help the community by giving the eye sight back to people. And by not charging huge price rates that families can’t afford.
5 Why did the person decide to address this issue?
Because Cataract’s aren’t addressed in poor countries and many people are going blind.
6. What is the local component?
He teaches surgeons. And surgeons teach surgeons and so on.
7. How does the community own the process?
They love it because people that haven’t seen in year now have the privilege to see again.
India New Life: getting children off the streets
1. Who is the social entrepreneur profiled?
Father Koshy, and Anu Dasaka
2.What problem did the person profiled identify?
The problem is that there are many homeless people in the city streets.
3. What is the name of the organization they started?
New Life Children's Home or Navajeevan Bala Bhavan.
4. Describe their relationship to the community that they serve?
They try to help these people any way possible.
5 Why did the person decide to address this issue?
Because they care and they know many of these people are home and hopeless.
6. What is the local component?
Helping every children and human being no matter age, race or problem.
7. How does the community own the process?
They continue helping and the foundation keeps getting bigger and bigger.
David Guzman
Professor Sabir
English 1A 9 a.m.
10 April 2011
Mexico: The Business of Saving Trees
1.- The social entrepreneur featured in the video is Pati Ruiz Corzo.
2.- She identified deforestation as one of the Sierra Gorda region’s main environmental problems. A huge social problem in the region is that the people don’t understand the global need for trees and the connection between the forests and their lives.
3.- The name of the organization is Sierra Gorda Biosphere Reserve located a few hours north of Mexico City.
4,- This foundation’s relationship to the community is through preservation of the land, reforestation of the land, and education of the community. Pati educates the children and their parents about the need to protect the forests and the need for more good carbon.
5.- Paty Ruiz Corzo, a former music teacher in Mexico City, moved to this place 25 years ago and found that the area was littered with trash and didn’t have any vegetation. She started a project to reforest the land and create jobs for the people in the area.
6.- The local component to this process is that the community works together to preserve the environment.
7.- The community owns this process through a few different projects. One project is a small eco-tourism lodge that was built by the locals with funds provided by the foundation. Another project pays local farmers to plant and grow trees on their farms instead of clear-cutting their land for crops. Also, by providing the local women with solar cookers, the women don’t have to use wood fires to cook.
Zinaida Dzhilavdaryan
Professor Wanda Sabir
English 1 A
10 April 2011
Frontline World Response
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?
5 Why did the person decide to address this issue?
6.What is the local component?
7.How does the community own the process?
Rwanda: Millennium Village
1. The social entrepreneur profiled is Josh Roxon.
2. He put his business into fight with poverty.
3. The name of the organization is Millennium Villages Project.
4. This project was started in 2004 by The Earth Institute at Columbia University to reduce the poverty of African countries.
5. Josh wants to improve the life of poor people. He wants to teach this people how to earn income and start their businesses. The humanitarian help doesn’t make a big difference, people need somebody to teach them how to do business, and earn income. Josh can see the potential in these people.
6. The majority of people profiled are poor people from villages.
7. People are happy to be able to earn a solid income, they can start with something small, like making baskets, and make enough money to pay school fees, or open a new business.
Mexico: The Business of Saving Trees
1. The social entrepreneur profiled is Pati Ruiz Corso
2. She puts all her efforts into fighting the air pollution.
3. Pati is the Director of the Seirra Gorda Biosphere
4. Pati loves forest; she wants to save it from pollution, at the same time she cares about people living in this area. She is sure that saving the forest can improve the life of these people as well.
5. Pati was tired of city life, she felt like a stranger among all the business people. She describes herself as a wild and very simple person, who can “take a nap under the tree in the forest.” Her motivation to start this organization was the strong desire to safe the forest and improves the life of people living there.
6. People in the community used to drop all the garbage in the river, hoping that it will just float away. Patti educated them about pollution and ways to prevent it.
7. People plant trees, they have fresh water. Money from business is invested back to the community, people have a chance to get a job and stay at their business.
Tibet: Eye Camp
1. The social entrepreneur profiled is Dr. Marc Lieberman, American ophthalmologist.
2. In Tibet the majority of people live in the mountains, and the disease of cataract here is wide spread. Dr. Lieberman tries to help these people.
3. People in the village make their living by farming, and vision is extremely important for them.
4. Nonprofit Tibet Vision Project is to train the Tibetan medical community to do the cataract surgeries themselves.
5. The Doctor travels 32 hours to the village, with no roads to teach the local doctors how to perform the cataract surgery. He wants to help these people; he knows that it is their only chance to be able to see again.
6. Local people are mostly farmers, who spend days under the sun.
7. The ability to see again is like a miracle for these people. They can work again and help their families. It is life changing for them, because in the community like this, people without vision feel helpless.
Tyler Mecozzi
Professor Sabir
English 1A 8a.m.
14 April 2011
1. Wheels of Change
2. Ralph Hodgskis is the social entrepreneur profiled.
3. Disadvantages for disabled people, specifically paraplegics.
Whirlwind Wheelchairs
4. They give away wheelchairs to disabled people in society free of charge.
5. He was paralyzed in a motorcycle accident and was met with the difficulties of disabled people when he cruised around the city.
6. The local component is that Vietnam is the world’s largest wheelchair country in dire need of an accessible wheelchair.
7. Since Whirlwind Wheelchairs’s ideas are open source, the company in Vietnam that manufactures their wheelchairs does not have to pay for the design, which allows them to give a lot of them to people in society for free.
Cataract Eyes
1. Dr. Marc Lieberman
2.Tibet is stricken with cataract blindness because they are exposed to the sun throughout their life.
3. Eye Camp
4.They set up camps in poor communities to perform cataract surgeries.
5.They decided to address this issue because they wanted to help community doctors be the best they can be while helping as many people as they can.
6. In Tibet, the community is given their eyesight back to keep working and be happy.
7. The community doctors have taken the skills learned from the American doctors and set up two to three Eye Camps a year helping the poor communities.
Flower Power
1. John Nevado
2. Ecuador’s flower business mistreats their workers.
3. Nevado Roses
4. They provide jobs, benefits, and fair pay to community workers.
5. He wanted to impact fair trade in the world.
6. The local people are not abused anymore and are paid fairly.
7. The community owns the process because Nevado Roses is located right in the community. They are proud to hold fair trade jobs.
David Guzman
Professor Sabir
English 1A 9 a.m.
16 April 2011
Nepal: A Girl's Life
1.- Who is the social entrepreneur profiled?
An American named John Wood
2.- What problem did the person profiled identify?
One of the causes for the poverty in Nepal is the lack of education especially of girls. During his first trip to Nepal as a tourist, Wood found few schools and practically no libraries in the rural areas. Traditionally girls are occupied with house chores, and they don’t go to school.
3.- What is the name of the organization they started?
The name of the organization is “Rooms to Read” a literacy program working in Nepal
4.- Describe their relationship to the community that they serve?
Rooms to Read started as a project to provide books, now it constructs libraries, schools and provides scholarships to girls in Nepal. They have constructed 1300 libraries in Nepal and are expanding to neighboring countries in Asia
5.- Why did the person decide to address this issue?
Wood discovered that 70% of women in Nepal are illiterate but the children love to read. On his second trip to Nepal he brought lots of books for Nepalese children. He quit his job from Microsoft and found a new future for his life. Today he organizes campaigns around the world to collect donations to fund this program. To construct a school requires a donation of just $15,000.
6.- What is the local component?
Pushca Shestag is the program manager and the counterpart in Nepal for Rooms to Read. The program uses local story tellers and local artists who publish books with familiar topics for Nepalese children.
7.- How does the community own the process?
There is community participation in the construction of the libraries and schools. Each beneficiary community contributes half of the funds and works in the construction of their school or library. This encourages self-reliance among the locals.
Julie Phoukeo
Professor Sabir
English 1A 8AM
14 April 2011
Cyber Assignments- Frontline World: Engaged Citizenry Responses
1st Response-Ecuador: Country Doctors
1. The social entrepreneur profiled is Dr. Rodas.
2. The problem that Dr. Rodas identified was Ecuador’s lack of health resources for poor people.
3. The name of the organization they started is called the Cinterandes Foundation.
4. The relationship to the community that they serve was doctors and patients. The medical services were free.
5. The person decided to address this issue because he wants the poor people to get the medical they needed and have healthy lives.
6. The local component was to help people who needed medical attention since Ecuador did not have the health resources to help poor people.
7. The community owns this process by getting back to good health and to the people. When you are not healthy, you cannot work or gain anything at all.
2nd Response- India: Design Like You Give A Damn
1. The social entrepreneur profiled is Purnima McCutcheon.
2. She was an American-trained architect that design buildings in India after the tsunami in 2004.
3. The organization group’s name was Architecture for Humanity. Architecture for Humanity was in India to design buildings such as the village hall and the youth media center the way the people wanted.
4. The relationship with the community was to lead them in the project.
5. Purnima McCutcheon addressed this issue because it has always been her aspiration to work with a community and do something that was meaningful.
6. The local component is to restore what was lost and build a community where history will be made.
7. The community owns the process by having everyone help build this community. Although it was Purnima McCutcheon’s designs, it was the people in the village that built them.
3rd Response- Cambodia: The Silk Grandmothers
1. The social entrepreneur profiled is Kikuo Morimoto.
2. Morimoto found the craft of Cambodian silk is in danger of disappearing after decades of violence.
3. In 1996, Morimoto opened a silk production studio in the town of Siem Reap which was on the main tourist route to Angkor Wat. He started this studio with seven “silk grandmothers.”
4. The relationship between Morimoto and the community were like family. He made the women who made the silk to be well known.
6. The local component was to restore the tradition of Cambodian silk craft and to let people recognize the skills that a very few individuals have in making the silk.
7. The community owns the process by having the people in Cambodian making these traditional silks. It has approved the way people working such as one month’s wage was almost a year’s wage in Cambodia. This made life better for over 400 employees working in the studio.
Stacey Kidder
Professor Sabir
English 1A 9-9:50am
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First Story:
1. The social entrepreneur featured in this story is Ralf Hotchkiss.
2. He identified the issue of having a wheel chair that is unreliable, especially in other countries, due to the differences in roads, areas, etc. as well as the difficulties that all people who need wheel chairs face.
3.He developed the Roughrider, his line of wheel chairs.
4. Ralf's relationship with the community that he serves is one of dedication and compassion. He truly cares about these people that most of society forgets to take into account for their disabilities and ways to help make their lives easier.
5. He had been become paralyzed, himself, after a motorcycle accident, thus he felt the need to construct a more user-friendly wheel chair.
6. Ralf is the local component in that he is from San Francisco, CA. He creates the designs here.
7. The communities he's involved all have their own businesses that construct these Roughriders local to themselves.
Second Story:
1. The social entrepreneur is Pati Ruiz Corzo.
2. She realized that she wanted to save the Sierra Gorda Biosphere from the trash that had been accumulating in it. She wanted to save the trees.
3. She started the Sierra Gorda Biosphere Reserve.
4. She lives in the community near the Sierra Gorda Biosphere (Mexico) and has a very close relationship with its people and nature.
5. After having lived in the city, then moving to the region, she wanted to be in a place of nature, not a place of trash, thus she dedicated herself to working on cleaning it up, and making it the beautiful, natural place it should be.
6. The local component is the people who have become more aware of the issues of cleaning up the environment and its impact on them.
7. The community helps, and some are hired to help by planting certain trees to help reduce the carbon footprint.
Third Story:
1. The social entrepreneur is Bart Weetjens.
2. He wanted to live in a better world, and help others in Africa (specifically near Tanzania) to feel safe without having to worry about explosives from land mines, and other such weapons hidden.
3. Hero Rats is the name of the company.
4. He has hired many from around the area to work for him as they train the rats to sniff out the explosives. He loves the community and just wants to see everyone safe.
5. He decided to address the issues because of his love for rats, and his knowledge of how smart they are, as well as his love for people.
6. The local components are the people that work for him and that are impacted by him.
7. The community is thankful for his contributions because he's literally saving lives. Many people of the community believe in what he is doing, thus why some of them work with him.
Adalie Villalobos
Professor Sabir
English 1A 8-9AM
15 April 2011
A New Life:getting children off the streets
1.)The social entrepreneur profiled is, a Catholic Salesian priest, Father Koshy, and Anu Dasaka, a psychologist and high-caste Hindu.
2.)The problem these people identified was that in many Indian cities, large numbers of destitute adults and children were living on the streets, sleeping in every nook and corners in the majority of the cities.
3.)The name of the organization they started is New Life Children's Home (or Navajeevan Bala Bhavan).
4.)New Life Children's Home serves a supportive relationship to the community because they are motivated to help these homeless children every way they can.
5.)Koshy and Dasaka decided to address this issue because they know that children who are homelsee for too long are so damaged by what life has thrown at them that it's unlikely they can be saved.
6.)The local component includes embracing children of all castes and religions, a practice that is not necessarily reflected in Indian society as a whole.
7.)The community owns the process because they continue to help more than 25,000 children come off the streets, runs 12 centers in the city, sheltering and educating both boys and girls.
1. Who is the social entrepreneur?
The social entrepreneur featured in this story is Ralf Hotchkiss.
2. What problem did the person identify?
He identified the issue of having a wheel chair that is unreliable, especially in other countries, due to the differences in roads, areas, etc. as well as the difficulties that all people who need wheel chairs face.
3.What is the name of the organization they started?
He developed the Roughrider, his line of wheel chairs.
4. Ralf's relationship with the community that he serves is one of dedication and compassion. He truly cares about these people that most of society forgets to take into account for their disabilities and ways to help make their lives easier.
5. He had been become paralyzed, himself, after a motorcycle accident, thus he felt the need to construct a more user-friendly wheel chair.
6. Ralf is the local component in that he is from San Francisco, CA. He creates the designs here.
7. The communities he's involved all have their own businesses that construct these Roughriders local to themselves.
Tanzania: Hero Rats
1. Who is the social entrepreneur profiled?
Bart Weetjens
2.What problem did the person profiled identify?
He found a way to detect and remove land minds in Tanzania.
3. What is the name of the organization they started?
Hero Rats
4.Describe their relationship to the community that they serve?
They provide a safe place for the whole community.
5 Why did the person decide to address this issue?
He wants people to live their lives without any worries.
6. What is the local component?
They train rats. The rats sniff out land mines. And the people gain the freedom to go wherever they want without any problem or fear of their safety.
7. How does the community own the process?
They support them. And are happy to have them around. And the rats can also detect tuberculosis.
Adrieanna Williams
Professor Sabir
English 1A/8 o'clock
18 May 2011
Video Response #1- Tibet: Eye Camp
1. Who is the social entrepreneur profiled?
Dr. Mark Lieberman and his team of colleagues.
2. What problem did the person profiled identify?
The problem is Tibetan nomads who live in areas where there are no local hospitals or clinics and are unable to seek medical assistance for cataracts. Tibetan nomads live in high altitudes which exposes their eyes to high levels of radiation. Cataracts are common among the Tibetan nomads due to the exposure of the sun in the high altitude.
3. What is the name of the organization they started?
The name of the organization started is Tibet Vision Project.
4. Describe their relationship to the community that they serve?
Dr. Lieberman and his team of colleagues have a close relationship with the communities they visit. Over the years his team has made multiple trips to the clinics that they have established. The people are very thankful for their services.
5 Why did the person decide to address this issue?
A deeply spiritual man, Lieberman was inspired by the Dalai Lama to pursue his medical mission.
6. What is the local component?
The local component is Dr. Liberian trains local health professionals to perform cataract surgery so that when his team leaves they can continue to perform the surgeries.
7. How does the community own the process?
The doctors that were trained by Dr. Lieberman taught them and continue to perform surgeries. The doctors become independent and train other doctors in the village.
Video Response #2- The Silk Grandmothers
1. Who is the social entrepreneur profiled?
Kikuo Morimoto
2. What problem did the person profiled identify?
Many of the local villagers did not have many job opportunities and they could not afford to survive.
3. What is the name of the organization they started?
The organization is called “The Silk Grandmothers”
4. Describe their relationship to the community that they serve?
The community really embraced the idea of having their own business. They liked the fact that they would earn a living making silk garments.
5 Why did the person decide to address this issue?
Kikuo Morimoto noticed that the city mad so much money off of tourism but the local people lived below the poverty line. He wanted to create jobs for the local villagers
6.What is the local component?
Kikuo Morimoto wanted to bring the tradition of silk crafts back to life. He saw an opportunity to get the local villagers involved in restoring a tradition.
7. How does the community own the process?
The local community takes part in designing silk garments and selling them for a profit.
Video Response #3- Room to Read
1.Who is the social entrepreneur profiled?
John Wood
2. What problem did the person profiled identify?
When he took a trip to Nepal he saw the overwhelming need of books and libraries.
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3. What is the name of the organization they started?
The organization is call “Room to Read”
4. Describe their relationship to the community that they serve?
John Wood has built a strong bond with the villages he works in. He is always adorned with flowers whenever he arrives at a village.
5. Why did the person decide to address this issue?
When he took a trip to Nepal he saw libraries falling apart. A local villager said to him “maybe one day you will come back with books”. John Wood that has stuck with him, since so eight months later he came back with 8 donkeys loaded with books.
6. What is the local component?
The villagers help build each school in their community. The goal is to teach self reliance.
7. How does the community own the process?
The community is involved with creating books for their libraries. The community is involved with building and financing the schools.
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