Frontline World: Engaged Citizenry Cyber-Assignment
Visit http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/stories/socialentrepreneurs.html
Respond to 3 stories by 11/10 (start 10/27). Post your Frontline World Responses (3) here.
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?
• 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
Respond to 3 stories by 11/10 (start 10/27). Post your Frontline World Responses (3) here.
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?
• Why they decided to address this issue?
5.What is the local component?
6.How does the community own the process?
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10 Comments:
Edwin Peabody
Professor Sabir
English 1A
26 October 2011
1) The social entrepreneur profiled was Jim Froctomine. 2) He identifies the problem of the missing Guatemalans due to the police achieve. He proved that the police murdered people in Guatemala for no reason. He wanted to find out the truth of what happened to all of the disappearing people in Guatemala due to the violence of the police. 3) He started an organization called Benetech, which helped find out the truth of the missing Guatemalan citizens. He decided to address this issue because he wanted the history of the violence in Guatemala to be known. 4) their relationship in the community that they serve is a relationship of helping those in need. Determining the truth on the entire missing Guatemala citizen captured by the police is very essential. 5) The local component is the citizen of Guatemala City is still investigating the police archive. 6) The community owns this process because they are very involved and determined to find out the secrets of the police in Guatemala.
Rwanda: Millemium Village
1) The social entrepreneur profiled is Josh Recson 2) He identifies the poor agriculture, heath care and, living condition in Rwanda. 3) Millenium village foundation is started in help improve these conditions. 4) Josh is very involved in the community of Rwanda. The people of Rwanda view josh as a provider for all the things their poor country lacks. Josh addresses this issue because Rwanda in one of the poorest countries and suffer from a lot of poverty. 5) The local component is to relieve Rwanda from its poverty. 6) The community owns the process by creating their own business in basket making and beginning a business in pomegranate.
Tibet: Eye camp
1) The social entrepreneur is Dr Mark Lieberman 2) He identified the problem with cataracts in Tibet. 3) He started a few eye camps in Tibet and also trained the Tibetan doctors in performing operations dealing with cataracts. 4) Mark decided to address the issue because he wanted the Tibetan people to be able to have the tools and skill to possibly prevent cataracts. 5) The local component is the eye camps that were opened to help the Tibetan people gain back their vision. 6) The Tibetan doctors have now been trained how to operate on patients with cataracts. They will continue operating on patients who suffer from cataracts
Kyle Tay
Professor Sabir
English 1A
27 October 2011
Social Entrepreneur Profiles
Vietnam: Wheels of Change
The social entrepreneur profiled is Ralph Hotchkiss. As a disabled person, Hotchkiss has always found it difficult to maneuver around in a traditional wheelchair. He then used his engineering knowledge to build a stronger and more durable wheelchair, one that is capable of tackling some of the most extreme terrain that one could find in a city or rural setting. Hotchkiss did not start an organization, rather, he collaborates with factories in Vietnam to produce his wheelchair model. The factories then distribute the chairs to the public for a very reasonable price, and sometimes even give them away for free. Hotchkiss understands how difficult it can be to move through the world in a wheelchair, this is what lead him to develop a sturdier, more terrain friendly chair. Hotchkiss is helps the disabled community of foreign countries by giving away his chairs to those who need it most.
Tibet: Eye Camp
The social entrepreneur profiled is Dr. Marc Lieberman. Lieberman addresses the problem of cataracts in Tibet. Tibet has a very high elevation, as a result, cataracts is a very common disease among the natives due to higher levels of radioactivity from the sun. With a group of other doctors, Lieberman traveled to Tibet to perform free eye surgeries for the locals that otherwise wouldn’t have been able to afford a procedure like this. He also taught local surgeons how to perform modern day eye surgeries. As an ophthalmologist, Lieberman extends his services to the people of Tibet as a work of charity. The local component of this is the fact that local surgeons now have the knowledge and utilities to perform eye surgeries themselves. The community owns the process because they are the victims of cataracts and recipients of surgery.
Rwanda: Millennium Village
The social entrepreneur profiled is Jeffrey Sachs. After the apocalyptic events of the Rwandan Genocide that occurred in 1994, Sachs made it his full obligation to end the cycle of poverty within small villages through the Millennium Village Project. The project aims to end poverty, provide healthcare, improve educational facilities, and teach the locals new agricultural techniques. As an economist, Sachs started this foundation to improve the lives of Rwandans after the Rwandan genocide.
Melody Webster
Professor Wanda Sabir
English 1A 11-11:50 a.m.
28 October 2011
Egypt: Middle East Inc.
"Egypt: Middle East Inc.," written by Amanda Pike, is an article that explores a program called "Injaz." This non-profit organization is a youth entrepreneurial program designed like a game show. Soraya Salti is the founder of this program, and states "Either these youth become a burden on our economies or they become an engine of growth and prosperity." The youth has become the majority population in Egypt, and experience severe unemployment. Most work until their twenty's in school systems, only to come out with a degree and no job opportunities. A statistic says that girls in Egypt experience four times the amount of unemployment as men, which depletes their motivation to enter the work force. Injaz works to inspire young entrepreneurs to acquire the right tools and mindset into making work for themselves. On the show, teams work to develop a business or idea that benefits Egyptian society, and ultimately one team is picked as the winner by top Egypt executives. The article follows three teams, all with vastly different ideas. One group is trying to create and implement a new recycling strategy for Egypt that would benefit the health and waste of the country. Another team is developing a bag that turns into a lap desk. And the last team is writing and publishing a magazine that is full of facts and stories that are not commonly known. Although there is only one winner, Soraya Salti states, "We want to catch them before they're unemployed, and w want to instill in them the entrepreneurial spirit and…the skill-set so that they can create their own employment opportunity." Although there is only one winner, each contestant comes out of the competition with their foot-in-the-door of the business world.
Cambodia: The Silk Grandmothers
KIkuo Morimoto is a textile craftsman from Japan. When traveling to Cambodia, he discovered the art of Cambodian silk-making. Morimoto found it to be a beautiful art, and a way for the impoverished citizens to make a living wage. Morimoto decided to found a production studio in Siem Reap, which is near one of the biggest tourist attractions, that employs more than 400 people, with a wage of $80-$200 a month. This is a huge help to those in poverty, the average yearly salarly totaling $300. Morimoto has successfully brought back the art of silk-making while simultaneously providing jobs and a future for Cambodian citizens.
Rwanda: Millennium Village
After the 1994 Rwandan genocide, the country was left in pieces. Economist Jeffrey Sachs from The Earth Institute at Columbia University founded a new project called the Millennium Villages Project. This project is a poverty reduction plan for all of Africa, beginning in Kenya and branching across 10 African countires, including Rwanda. The Millennium Villages Project is a five year plan that claims "poverty can be eliminated or at least drastically reduced within five years if you rigorously apply the latest science and technology…" The project covers agriculture, health, education and infrastructure. In all 10 countries, the project has trained over 800 health workers and reconstructed 49 hospitals or "health posts." The project sets up villages where people develop their own agricultural system, infrastructure, and health care. Millennium provides assistance with every service; for example, they have the villagers purchase fertilizer on loan and other such tools.
Stephanie Kiick
Professor Wanda Sabir
English 1A 11:00-11:50AM
31 October 2011
Social Entrepreneur FRONTLINE Responses
India: Design Like You Give a Damn
1.The social entrepreneurs profiled were Pernima McCutcheon and her co-founders Kate Stohr and Cameron Sinclair. 2.The issues that were identified by Pernima were the lack of adequate housing and stable architecture in small, poor villages and places across the world that have been hit by natural disasters. 3.The name of the organization that they started is called Architecture for Humanity. 4.Pernima and her crew designed twelve community centers and hospitality centers for small villages in India They designed buildings that were drawn up first by the communities and fit all of the needs and then approved by the communities. The communities grew proud of their own villages. They decided to address this issue because after natural disasters hit the attention usually moves on before most of the problems are fixed. They designed building that were for survival and simple. 5&6. The local workers were hired as the builders of the buildings, generating income for the local families. The communities chose what the buildings needed and were the final approval for all of the buildings. The buildings gave the communities a sense of pride, a place to hold ceremonies, a place to benefit their children, and a sense of ownership.
Cambodia: The Silk Grandmothers—Weaving a New Life From a Lost Art
1.The social entrepreneur profiled was Kikuo Morimoto, a textile craftsman. 2. Kikuo Morimoto went to Cambodia where wars had killed many people and put the villages in severe poverty. He wanted to go to the Cambodian outskirts and bring the traditional silk-making art back to life. 3.The organization that he started is called The Institute for Khmer Traditional Textiles. 4. Kikou found six grandmothers and survivors of the wars that were very experienced in silk-making, he called them The Silk Grandmothers. Him and the six grandmothers found the Institution. He wanted to keep this tradition alive and bring it back to an important part of the Cambodian culture. He also looked at this as an opportunity to sell the pieces world-wide and make money for the villages. 5. The six grandmothers work at the institution and teach younger women the traditional way to silk-make. 6. The older women and anyone that makes silk products is allowed to sell them and bring income to their household. Morimoto also bought a piece of land where he could grow the plants and the insects to make silk from scratch. This farm is also locally owned. Wanted to bring wisdom, experience, and skill through the generations before it died off.
Vietnam Wheels of Change
1.The social entrepreneur profiled was Ralf Hotchkiss. He is a paralyzed person himself and found the traditional wheelchairs inadequate for some countries roads and buildings. He used his engineering abilities and built the “Rough Rider Wheelchair.” 2. Ralf acknowledged wheelchair transportation and accessibility difficulties in other countries. 3.The organization is called Whirlwind Wheelchairs International. 4. Ralf decided to collaborate with entrepreneurs internationally. He and Twan, an entrepreneur in Vietnam teamed up to get the wheelchairs produced and distributed in Vietnam. Twan works very closely with his customers, going to disability events and giving away free wheelchairs. Many people in Vietnam were forced to stay home, but Twan and Ralf continued raising money to pay for the cost of the wheelchair for people that couldn’t. 5. The wheelchair factories are run by many local laborers, providing an income for locals. The wheelchairs were designed to be very cheap with locally available resources
Marcel Rollock
Professor Wanda Sabir
English 1A 11-11.50AM
2 November 2011
Social Entrepreneur Profiles
Tibet: Eye Camp
Dr. Marc Lieberman is the social entrepreneur being profiled. Lieberman is an ophthalmologist and has been practicing for thirty five years. Tibet is currently fighting a cataracts epidemic because of the countries high elevation and Lieberman has made it his mission to eradicate the problem. To do this, Lieberman started a non-profit organization called the, Tibet Vision Project, its aim is to not only help individuals with cataracts but to, “train the Tibetan medical community to do the cataract surgeries themselves.” As you could imagine Lieberman has built a strong relationship with the people of Tibet, he continued to prevent blindness despite his work often coming under fire by Chinese rule. Many of the Tibetan people affected by cataracts are nomadic farmers and rely on their eyes to work. By helping people like this to see, Lieberman has improved the quality of life for these farmers and their families. Giving Tibetan surgeons the tools and training to continue to perform sight saving surgeries will ensure the community can carry on with the efforts.
Rwanda: Millennium Village
Economist Jeffrey Sachs from the Earth Institute at Columbia University is the social entrepreneur being profiled. After a violent war that took the lives of close to one million people desecrated Rwanda in 1994, poverty was at an all time high. Sachs founded an organization called the, Millennium Villages Project. Its efforts are to reduce poverty in ten African countries, including Rwanda. To do this the project plans to rigorously apply the latest science and technology. The project covers agriculture, health, education and infrastructure. Through the Millennium Villages Project, Sachs has built a close relationship with the people of Rwanda, working to train 800 community health workers and refurbished or constructed 49 hospitals. By providing bed nets to help combat malaria and allowing the people to purchase fertilizer on loan the project put Rwanda and other African nations in a position to own the process.
Ecuador: Flower Power
The social entrepreneur being profiled is a progressive rose grower in Ecuador named John Nevado. Nevado is one of the leaders of the fair trade movement. The movements plan is to improve works right and the conditions in which roses in Ecuador are grown and traded. Ecuador’s elevation and close proximity to the equator makes it an ideal place to grow roses. But the industry is notorious for dangerous pesticides, poor labor practices and corrupt management. It is thought that improvements to conditions of the rose farms will increase trade to the United States and Europe. Local rose farm works embrace Nevado ideas as they will get the benefit of better pay and working conditions. Owners of the farms will be rewarded for using stainable growing techniques with higher profits.
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Lena Chhit
Professor Wanda Sabir
English 1A 11am-1150am
3 November 2011
Frontline World Responses
Mexico: The Business of Saving Trees
1.The social entrepreneur profiled is Pati Ruiz Corzo. 2.The problem she identifies was the garbage and litter in the Sierra Gorda in Mexico. 3.The organization that she started is called the Sierra Gorda Biosphere Reserve. The organization preserves the environment by carbon trading. They are paid by companies to plant trees to reduce a companies carbon footprint. 4.She has a relationship with the community because she was at first living in the big city in Mexico, then decided to move to this rural part of Mexico called the Sierra Gorda. Once she moved to Sierra Gorda and witnessed how polluted it was she made it her goal to help better the environment and create a new livelihood for this particular community. 5. The local component is that by creating an organization that gets paid to plant trees, Pati Ruiz Corzo has revived the community by creating jobs, helping reduce carbon footprint. 6. The community owns the process because this allows people in the community to prosper.
Nepal: A Girl’s Life, Making Room to Read
1. The social entrepreneur profiled is John Wood. 2. The problem he identified was the level of poverty which meant very few books in the library in the village of Kathmandu near Nepal. 3. The name of the organization he started is called Room to Read. The organization is a literacy program where they establish libraries, publish children’s books, conduct writing workshops for kids, and offer scholarships. 4. John Wood became aware of the community when he decided to take a vacation to Nepal and discovered the community along the way. At the time he had been working for Microsoft for about seven years. When he saw what a beautiful place it was and how poor they were he felt he could help. The headmaster of the school he visited there said to him that if he was so concerned about the few supply of books in the library then maybe next time he should come with some. The next year he decided to return with books and from then on wanted to help bring literacy to the village. He felt that if the village had the tools to educate themselves then they would be able to improve their financial situation and quality of living.5. The local component is that from this program the people in the village have the tools and resources to become educated. From that they have a better opportunity to hold better jobs and support their families. 6. The community owns the process by being involved in the planning and constructing of the libraries and schools. The villagers are expected to put up half the funds that it cost to build these institutions which in turn promotes self-reliance.
Lena Chhit
Professor Wanda Sabir
English 1A 11am-1150am
3 November 2011
Frontline World Response
Cambodia: The Silk Grandmothers , Weaving a New Life from a Lost Art
1. The social entrepreneur profiled is Kikuo Morimoto, a textile craftsman from Kyoto, Japan. 2. Kikuo Morimoto went to Cambodia on a mission to find if the art of silk weaving still existed there. He then found only seven elderly women who still knew how to silk weave and wanted to help bring the art of silk weaving back to Cambodia. 3. The name of the organization he started is called The Institute for Khmer Traditional Textiles a studio in the town of Siem Reap. 4. Kikuo Morimoto founded the seven grandmothers that knew the art to silk weaving in Cambodia. He is a fellow textile artist who used to paint kimonos in Japan. He wanted to bring the art of silk weaving back to Cambodia because it would help the community help themselves by earning a better living. He made it his mission to change the old business agreement where these weavers were being taken advantage of by not receiving a decent pay for their work. 5. The local component is that now these villagers have an opportunity to work which allows them to have enough money to buy food and support their families. 6. The community owns the process through the Institution by allowing the grandmothers to pass down the art of silk making. It has grown to 400 workers. By keeping the art of silk making alive the people of this village have a better chance at life and taking care of their families.
Samuel Yihdego
Professor Wanda Sabir
English 1A 11-11:50 a.m.
05 November 2011
Rwanda: Millennium Village
The social entrepreneur profiled is Jeffrey Sachs. After the end of mass murder that took hundreds thousands of Rwandans in 1994, Economist Jeffrey Sachs from The Earth Institute at Columbia University came up with a new idea called the Millennium Villages Project. The goal of this project is to reduce poverty, hunger, and diseases in ten African countries, centered in Kenya. The project uses the most advance technology and human labor to facilitate sustainability in the area. By investing in the health, and educated the community, providing clean water and essential infrastructure, this great project made Rwanda and other east Africa nations to hold the position of self-reliance.
Samuel Yihdego
Professor Wanda Sabir
English 1A 11-11:50 a.m.
05 November 2011
Cambodia: The Silk Grandmothers
The social entrepreneur profiled is kikuo morimoto, a Japanese textile craftsman. In the 1990s, Morimoto was deployed by the UN mission in Cambodia. During his stay in Cambodia. He saw those grandmothers who possessed magnificent skill sold their products for nothing. Hence, he motivated to create the institution so called the Institute for Khmer Traditional Textiles. He now has more than four hundred people employed at the studio- all earning much more than the average income in the country. Beside of reducing the poverty, he also makes the best ikat in the world.
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