Social Entrepreneur Essay Assignment, Note the multiple components
Cyber-Assignment 1
Frontline World: Engaged Citizenry Cyber-Assignment. Complete between March 22-April 12.
Cyber-Assignment 1
Frontline World: Engaged Citizenry Cyber-Assignment. Complete between March 22-April 12.
Visit http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/stories/socialentrepreneurs.html
This assignment will help students better articulate what a social entrepreneur is, although you have met many in the pages of Mighty and Half the Sky.
This assignment will help students better articulate what a social entrepreneur is, although you have met many in the pages of Mighty and Half the Sky.
Assignment: Respond to 3 stories from Thursday, March 22 to Thursday, April 12. Bring in headphones for the computer 3/22. 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, that is, feel as if they are integral to the success of the venture or business?
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Colleen low
Professor Wanda Sabir
English 1A
31 March 2012
Cyber-Assignment Frontline Guitar Hero
1.Who is the social entrepreneur profiled?
Filiciano dos Santos is a musician and activist concerned with health and environmental issues.
2.What problem did the person profiled identify?
In Santos’ community Niassa, Mozambique, he sings about hygiene and sanitation. He also is an advocate to talk about AIDS. By sponsoring plays to which the villagers, themselves act out real causes and consequences. This makes for a more effective way to educate and is prevention for the children and adults about AIDS in the community.
3.What is the name of the organization they started?
Estamos offices are in the town of Lichinga.
4.Describe their relationship to the community that they serve?
Santos feels very deeply for this community because he was born and raised in Niassa. He has not forgotten where he comes from and helps out his community.
5 Why did the person decide to address this issue?
When Santos was a young child, he had contracted polio through the contamination of the water and had lost part of his leg. It was because of his disability that made Santos what to help others, it is Santos way of healing all the discrimination brought on to him because of an easily fixable situation that causes devastation.
6.What is the local component?
Santos is the local component, to which he has gone through war in his country and the situations in their community have affected him. He understands the process of healing and education through communication, which is through song his music with his group Mussukos. They have a song about washing their hands and building latrines for a better life. His style of teaching by music, plays and education through instruction is multi-faceted because he understands the dynamics what the community needs
7.How does the community own the process, that is, feel as if they are integral to the success of the venture or business?
The organization, Estamos employs over 40 people, which integrate the locals into the organization instead of outside factors. Not having a latrine, as an example, is a public health issue, because the waste can contaminate the soil and create sickness. The community benefits by building eco friendly latrines and by utilizing the remnants of the ashes from cooking into the waste, creates compost to fertilize the local’s crops. Overall, Santos is ingenious because he continues to think of ways to help others.
Sorry forgot this one is Moambique, Niassa: Guitar Hero
http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/stories/mozambique704/
Colleen Low
Professor Wanda Sabir
English 1A
31 March 21012
Frontline: Design Like You Give a Damn
1.Who is the social entrepreneur profiled?
Punima McCutcheon, an architect trained in America
2.What problem did the person profiled identify?
Punima has built 12 communities and each approach differs. Many of the cases were from the devastating results of the tsunami and many communities were lost because of the water damage. She uses a social worker to attain the villagers’ ideas before she begins the project in Timil Nadu, India. Asking for their input is important because the community becomes part of the process and the villagers feel ownership.
3.What is the name of the organization they started?
Architecture for Humanity is a circle of architects to use their creative resources through design to help build sustainable communities that do have the money to facilitate these modern ideas and is a connection to viable groups
4.Describe their relationship to the community that they serve?
These networks are using their ideas in the field to help others, knowingly that most of the villagers live on fifty cents a day. The founders are a couple Kate Stohrt and Cameron Sinclair; they understand the economics of building and realize the need of others in the architect community want to help. Therefore, Architecture for Humanity is able to reach out to worldwide for responses to aid the humanitarian efforts in different countries to help create solutions
5 Why did the person decide to address this issue?
Purnima had a need to help after the devastation of the tsunami in India. She had been working her field as an architect for 14 years for the commercial sector and she states, “It’s always been my aspiration to, at some point, work with a community and do something that was more personally meaningful.”
6.What is the local component?
Through the devastation in India and Kosovo, humanitarians see the emotional turmoil of the people who feel hopeless and lost. The help from strangers fill the people of hope and appreciate that others are able to assist in their needs after great disasters. The villagers feel again their connection, to hope to begin again and through the building a chance to reconnect and build their spirits to help one another.
7.How does the community own the process, that is, feel as if they are integral to the success of the venture or business?
First Pumima had the villagers actually draw what they had in mind to create a community base. This is important because it creates a great sense of connection. It is important to realize when one comes in to help, is to make the person who needs help feel empowered because when Pemima is gone it is the community that needs to maintain the building and the functions that sustain the integrity of the mission. The new community now has a village hall, which is used in a variety of ways, but most of all the children can be proud to say that their parents built this community center where they will marry, attain education and gather together.
Timil Nadu, India: Design Like You Give A Damn
http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/stories/india705/
Colleen Low
Professor Wanda Sabir
English 1A
31 March 2012
Frontline: Cambodia, The Silk Grandmothers: Weaving a new life from a lost art.
1.Who is the social entrepreneur profiled?
Kikuo Morimoto, Japanese textile artist, who is a well- known painter of kimonos.
2.What problem did the person profiled identify?
Marimoto’s problem was to find who knew the traditions and remembered the techniques that were handed down from generation to generation of silk making. He was able to find seven grandmothers, who knew of the secret through a United Nations organization.
3.What is the name of the organization they started?
The Institute Khmer of Traditional Textiles, however the Phnom Penh UNESO sent Marimoto and pointed the way to research the women that knew the secrets to the art of silk making.
4.Describe their relationship to the community that they serve?
Morimoto’s relationship to the community is the beauty of their cultural art and the respect he had to the people who created such extraordinary fabrics. “The red of the fabric burned a fierce impression on my eyes,” speaks to his love of the essence of art. He has great affection to the people of Cambodia and want to help save this tradition and also shows true generosity by using his own money to create this venture to help save a almost lost culture of Cambodia.
5 Why did the person decide to address this issue?
He appreciated the silk art in Cambodia, and wanted to reinstitute the fine quality of
silk-making. He realized the violence of war in Cambodia had taken away many of the people, who held the knowledge and ancient technique of producing silk. So he founded a studio to produce and educate the younger generations of silk production; also to be able to sustain themselves economically. As in this quote, he states that the art of silk being created was under valued because it is a painstaking process of art, “ These grandmothers were so highly skilled, they should be given the chance to do work that matched the skill and be paid for it.”
6.What is the local component?
The grandmothers were essential to the community, to which Morimoto had great respect. The grandmothers helped grow sales to create capital for the venture that builds the environment by planting Mulberry Trees. This completes the circle, to give back to the ecology and keep the tradition of creating silk and is kept sacred. Mulberry Trees are used to feed the silk worms, so they will increase the volume of silk and sustain the environment.
7.How does the community own the process, that is, feel as if they are integral to the success of the venture or business?
The community is very involved, and creating in the traditional way the art form of silk textiles gives the grandmothers and the younger generation the opportunity again to be involved and empowerment to sustain economically and save a piece of who they are because there had been so much war. As one of the grandmother’s, Chan Sot stated that she had been on the run for a very long time because of war. To be able to make money, to share her artistic skills of her country’s culture gives her much joy, whereby she is able to help and share with the next generation.
The Silk Grandmothers: Weaving a new life from a lost art.
http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/rough/2007/06/cambodia_the_si.html#
Mark Jansz
Professor Wanda Sabir
English 1A, Spring 2012
4 April 2012
1.Who is the social entrepreneur profiled? The Social entrepreneur profiled is Ralf Hotchkiss.
2.What problem did the person profiled identify? Hotchkiss identified the problem that wheel chairs did not give a wide range of mobility in one chair. Many times he would face problems with the terrain, and not be able to face the problem.
3.What is the name of the organization they started? They started the "Rough Rider" a wheel chair that is built for comfort, and easy mobility, being accessible to everyone and being able to be modified for anyone.
4.Describe their relationship to the community that they serve? The majority of the community uses the Rough Rider because it is affordable and also the best wheel-chair product that they have access too.
5 Why did the person decide to address this issue? The person decided to address this issue because the wheelchairs that he used would always have problems, and was always expensive.
6.What is the local component? The wheelchair's is accessible to many different companies. Hotchkiss gave them the right to make the chairs for free, so that more people who are in need of wheelchair's, can be able to attain one of his wheelchair's.
7.How does the community own the process, that is, feel as if they are integral to the success of the venture or business? The community has a positive outlook on it. It enables many handicapped citizens to acquire a superb wheelchair that is very beneficial to them.
Reagan Lolo
Professor Wanda Sabir
English 1A
12 April 2012
The social entrepreneur profiled is Ralph Hotchkiss. The problem he identified was that wheelchairs were not always compatible with certain locations where people have to ride on rocky roads ect. But also most wheelchairs were not flexible enough which made the rider's day harder.
Ralph started an organization named " Roughrider." Ralph's relationships with the communities that he is serving is that he is disable himself, which gives him a better understanding of other disable people's situation in connection with riding on wheelchairs. Although Ralph does not live in all the communities that he is serving, he does spend time in most of the communities working with locals on wheelchair designs and so on...
Ralph decided to address the issue of wheelchairs because he wanted to design a wheelchair for himself that can give him more mobility,also because he was not comfortable enough with the traditional wheelchairs that were on the market.
The local component includes local factories that have free access to Ralph's technology to manufacture better wheelchairs. In return these local factories not only sell wheelchairs for a more affordable price, but they also give away free wheelchairs sometimes.They use materials that are locally accessible,all the workers are certainly members of the communities that are being served. Some modifications on the design are sometimes the result of local's request, which makes the members of the community feel like they are an integral part of the process.
Daniel Escudero-Whitney
Professor Wanda Sabir
English 1A
12 April 2012
Frontline World -- EX 1
Vietnam: Wheels of Change
Ralf Hotchkiss, a paralyzed engineering professor at San Francisco State, designed a wheelchair called the Rough Rider. His motivation for so doing was that modern wheelchairs are not robust enough to handle the everyday trials of life, especially those chairs in the developing world where the roads and sidewalks can be very treacherous.
Hotchkiss did not start an organization per se; he gave the design of his RoughRider to the world by allowing it to become public domain, so everyone can modify it and produce it so suit their own specific needs.
In his community, Hotchkiss is a professor of engineering. In Vietnam, however, he is a visionary who has improved the quality of life for many in a community of disabled through the gift of enhanced mobility.
Hotchkiss first decided to address this issue because he wanted to design his own wheelchair. Also, he believed that there was no wheelchair robust enough to could handle the rigors of mobility in the developing world.
The RoughRider wheelchair is made in Vietnam, and benefits not only other people in the world by offering an affordable wheelchair, but those in community in Vietnam who could use such an improvement in their daily lives.
The community in Vietnam really takes ownership of the RoughRider process because a member of the community can make a suggestion for enchancing the wheelchair, and see that idea realized with an updated chair to better serve them.
Daniel Escudero-Whitney
Professor Wanda Sabir
English 1A
12 April 2012
Frontline World -- EX 2
Egypt: Middle East, INC.
Soraya Salti runs a non-profit in Egypt called Injaz. The main problem Injaz works on is youth unemploytment; keeping the youth from becoming a burden on Egypt's economy by making them an engine of growth. Salti is in the business of making entrepreneurs.
Salti's is seen in her community primarily as a motivator. Through her work, she encourages youth to be creative and competitive, which in turn, gives them hope and drive.
Salti describes youth unemployment as a "ticking time bomb". This is most likely due to the fact that there are always new young people growing up in the world, but not new jobs to meet them. So they must learn to create jobs for themselves.
Injaz has many offices all over Egypt, and the communities in which they operate are vital to the success of the business because the participants of the entrepreneurial competitions are drawn from the local community, and their exploits are aligned to stimulate the Egyptian economy.
Daniel Escudero-Whitney
Professor Wanda Sabir
English 1A
12 April 2012
Frontline World -- EX 3
India: Design Like You Give a Damn
Purnima McCutcheon is part of a group called Architecture for Humanity, which is now in the process of is rebuilding Tamil Nadu, India, where the community is a key resource in generating the ideas for the design and utility of the structures being built. McCutcheon takes ideas and suggestions from members of the community and makes them a reality through her work.
McCutcheon had always wanted to work with a community and do something that is more meaningful to her than working at a large corporation. As an American trained architect, McCutcheon sought to aid India after the destruction caused by the 2004 tsunami by designing buildings for a shattered community.
1.Who is the social entrepreneur profiled? The social entrepreneur profiled is Purnima McCutheon.
2.What problem did the person profiled identify? She has identified the problem of rebuilding a community.
3.What is the name of the organization they started?Design Like You Give A Damn is the organization they started.
4.Describe their relationship to the community that they serve?
5 Why did the person decide to address this issue? They felt that there must have been other people who felt or shared in the same idea they had.
6.What is the local component? The local component is to help rebuild communities that have been destroyed.
7.How does the community own the process, that is, feel as if they are integral to the success of the venture or business? The community is very involved in this organization. They send ideas, and even throw parties for them.
Mark Jansz
Professor Wanda Sabir
English 1A, Spring 2012
12 April 2012
1.Who is the social entrepreneur profiled? The social entrepreneur profiled is Purnima McCutheon.
2.What problem did the person profiled identify? She has identified the problem of rebuilding a community.
3.What is the name of the organization they started?Design Like You Give A Damn is the organization they started.
4.Describe their relationship to the community that they serve?
5 Why did the person decide to address this issue? They felt that there must have been other people who felt or shared in the same idea they had.
6.What is the local component? The local component is to help rebuild communities that have been destroyed.
7.How does the community own the process, that is, feel as if they are integral to the success of the venture or business? The community is very involved in this organization. They send ideas, and even throw parties for them.
Mark Jansz
Professor Wanda Sabir
English 1A, Spring 2012
12 April 2012
1.Who is the social entrepreneur profiled?Kikuo Morimoto
2.What problem did the person profiled identify? Bringing back the art of cambodian silk making.
3.What is the name of the organization they started? The "silk Grandmothers"
4.Describe their relationship to the community that they serve?They bring back the forgotten art of silk-making.
5 Why did the person decide to address this issue? He felt that the silk-makers should get more fore their hard and very skilled work. He felt that they needed to be appreciated.
6.What is the local component? He set up a silk production studio to help the poor to get a job and make more than the average cambodian wage of $300 a year.
7.How does the community own the process, that is, feel as if they are integral to the success of the venture or business? They felt good about it. It was honest and good work. It offered many women a way of life that didn't violate their beliefs.
Whitney Maxwell
Eng 1a
Prof. Sabir
Egypt Middle East Inc.
1. The social entrepreneur profiled is Sraya Salti, and the student entrepreneurs who enter her competition
2. Sraya Salti addressed trend in egypt of the waiting generation.In egypt there is an upwards of a 5 year wait for even the most successful college graduates to recieve a respectabble job.
3.The name of the organizations is INJAZ, a non profit organization thats a spin of from the american program Junior Achievement.
4. Relationship between the community and INJAZ is that they are proactive to "waiting generation" trend through out Egypt. They go out to schools and try to motivate and instill entreprenueral mindsets and skills into students before they find themselves unemployed and unmotivated and create their own.
5. Sraya Salfi decided to address this issue because she realizes that the youth who after years of working furiously to recieve a degree but are unemployed, will either serve as an engine for growth and prosperity or a burden on the economy.
6. The community is connected to this organization because INJAZ has breated a competition for college students, Battle for the Best student company
7. The community feels as if they own the company because the competition judges the complete works and thought process of local college students. The students must work together to create a business plan and real life product that they must sell and bring awareness to throughout their community. They are then judged by some of Egypts top business executives, to see which of these student companies would be most profitable and actually succeed in their community.
Whitney Maxwell
Eng.1A
Prof. Wanda Sabir
Cambodia: The Silk Grandmothers
1. The social entrepreneur profiled is Kikuo Morimoto. He is a textile artist from japan that is know for his hand painted kimonos.
2. The Problem that Morimoto identified was that the countless years of war and modernization had pushed the traditional cambodian craft of silk weaving into exile.
3.The organization that Morimoto created was The Institute for Khmer Traditional Textiles.
4. Morimoto's relationship to the community is passionate and respectful. He himself is a textile artist, so he holds a unspoken bond to weaving women because they both possess an affinity for the art of fabric making and the fabrics in general. He also is extremly grateful for the women, who over the years and through out the wars have held on to the secrets of the craft.
5. Morimoto was originally sent by Phnom Penh's UNESCO organization to find how many, if any, women knew the secret art of silk weaving. In doing his research to find the women, he also noticed that the highly skilled grandmothers were serving only as the middlemen which forced them to do cheap labor. Being a craftsman he was furious because he seen the value in their work so he wanted to create an enviorment were they could do they work he knew they were capable of and be imbursed appropriately for it.
6. The community is connected to the business because it uinites the elders of the craft, who are known as the Silk Grandmothers, and the younger generations. Together they go through the intricate process harvasting pure silk in farms that they have raised and transforming it into beautiful traditional kimonos and scarves. Bringing the lost art, back to life.
7. The women of the communtiy feel as if they intregal part of the business because they can see the outcome of their tideous work. They are allowed to do their caft in the way that they know is right and in return they are not only able to provide food and well being for their families, but they contribute to their economy, without having to sacrafice their culture.
Sulekha Yussuf
Professor Wanda
English 1A
FundeCruz/Frontline World
Outline:
1.Who is the social entrepreneur profiled?
Ulises De la Cruz
2.What problem did the person profiled identify?
The lack of acceptance towards Afro-Ecuadorians(Stereotype) .
3.What is the name of the organization they started?
FundeCruz
4.Describe their relationship to the community that they serve?
He is a soccer player and a hero to his nation after represented Ecuador at World Cup in 2002.
5 Why did the person decide to address this issue?
The Cruz was a native of the ElChota Vallaey in Ecuador but due to poverty he was forced to moved far away, looking for opportunities.Then he played with Ecuador soccer national team and represents the team at Fifa World Cup.The city and the national see him as hero.But the area they live was devastated with poverty.Most of the resident at Valley are minority-Afro Ecuadorians.nPeople lived without enough access to schools,electricity and other basic services.Cruz returned to Valley after living in the United State for 20 years.He saw the poverty and racial gap between Afro-Ecuadorians and other ethinics.He open the non profit to rebuild his country.6.What is the local component?
7.How does the community own the process, that is, feel as if they are integral to the success of the venture or business?
He help the community to stay out of the poverty.He bought school that can help families to educate their kids.His project have include a medical center,clean water, roads and gyms.
Ana Vasquez
English 1A
April12, 2012
Wanda Sabir
Frontline World- India: Design like you give a Dam
We meet a woman social entrepreneur named Purnima McCutcheon, an architect that trained in America. Purnima was determined to help many cases from the people that lost their home in the result of the devastating tsunami. These communities lost their homes because of the water damages that the tsunami had caused. Purnima uses a social worker to get the villager’s ideas before she can begin her project which would be done in Timil Nadu India. Purnima did a great job when it came to asking the villager’s about her idea because it made the community come together and get more involved with her project that would soon benefit many of them. First she asked them to build sketches of what they would like to be rebuilt in India. Purnima then began an organization called Architecture for Humanity. This organization was a group of architects that would use their resources through some of their creative design to help build better and stronger houses for the villagers to live in. The organization was built to help communities who don’t have the money to give the ideas for these new sustainable new homes. But they also came up with a better idea that was going to contain inflatable homes; they called this “Design like you Give a Dam”. These people wanted to give a sense of place, where the people could feel comfortable to focus on the affected community. The community that this organization served was for Architecture Humanity, it was able to reach out worldwide. These networks are using their ideas to help others, because they know that these people live off a little amount of money per day. The founders to these ideas are a couple Kate Stohart and Cameron Sinclair. Both Stohart and Sinclair understand the costs of buildings and know that they need the help of others in the architect community.
Ana Vasquez
English 1A
April12, 2012
Wanda Sabir
Frontline World-Vietnam: Wheels of Change
Ralf Hotchkiss is an immobile engineering professor at San Francisco State University. This social Entrepreneur decribed that the wheelchairs made in modern days are no longer comfortable and made to the accessibility of many places. Meaning that at times a normal wheelchair is not able to be in rocky roads, or go up steep places, because it is a very unstable chair. Hotchkiss being paralyzed; really influenced him to the making of a good chair. The organization this social entrepreneur began was called “Rough Riders”, it was chair that was built for a better comfort, and for a better use in daily life because it gave the person a better access to places they couldn’t be at before. This organization was mainly for the Vietnam community, it was affordable and it gave the person a chance to experience a chair that was resistant to almost anything. Hotchkiss decided to address this issue, because from personal experience, he was having trouble finding a wheelchair that was comfortable and gave easy access. Most modern wheelchairs would be very unstable and at times made it dangerous for the person who would be in one. Hotchkiss also made these chairs affordable, so that people who needed it could purchase them without having to lack the sufficient amount of money. The “Rough Rider” was accessible to different companies. Hotchkiss let the people make these wheelchairs for free, so that other companies could sell them. The community thinks that the wheelchairs were a good outlook. They know that they are acquired to a good wheelchair that benefits people who are in wheelchairs. This business was perhaps one the best inventions, especially because Ralf Hotchkiss let other companies take his idea and expand it to better people’s lives.
Sulekha Yussuf
Professor Wanda
English 1A
Kiva-Micro-finance
Outline:
1.Who is the social entrepreneur profiled?
Jessica Jackley and Matt Flanney the co-founders of Kiva
2.What problem did the person profiled identify?
Famous Noble prize winner Mohammed Yunnus inspired these two founders to states a Micro-finance organization.
3.What is the name of the organization they started?
Kiva
4.Describe their relationship to the community that they serve?
Different lenders from developed countries have a chance to lend money to small business owners or students around the world especial in developing countries to operate a business company.
5 Why did the person decide to address this issue?
They were inspired by Yunus ideas but then after visited different countries to see how people are devastating with poverty.They believe through micro-lending,poor people can boost their economic capabilities to eradicate poverty around the world.
6.What is the local component?
Micro-finance, a financial service to a small business or student.Most of the time women and youth are the target group.
7.How does the community own the process, that is, feel as if they are integral to the success of the venture or business?
Through micro-lending the organization helped many people around the world to establish business.
Whitney Maxwell
Eng. 1A
Prof. Wanda Sabir
12 April 2012
Rwanda: Millennium Village
1. The social entrepreneur profiled is Josh Rucksen.He is partnered with the Rwandan government to lead there Millenium Village Project.
2.Rucksen is addressing the issue of poverty within the village of Mayange. Following the genecide of 1994 trillions of dollar have been invested in similar efforts. Josh believes that " its is possible to end extreme poverty if strategic interventions are made "
3. Although he is not the brainchild of the Millennium Village project, he is the overseer of one of the most successful of the ten villages that have started across Africa since 2004. The overall goal of the project is to permanentl improve the life of a village in a five year span.
4.Josh along with a local Daniel is one of the many spearheads in the success of the village. Together they have made substantial changes in the agricultural output and diversity. There has also been radical change in education and helthcare all from his efforts coupled with funding of the government.
5. Josh was drawn to the project because he believes that if strategic investments are made in essential parts of the village such as Health and Agricultre then there is the possibility for great change. If states that "if the Villagers can take their minds off worrying what their families will eat and how they will keep them healthy then they can focus on properity". In tackling those issues he is now able to encourage the ideal of entrprenuership.
6. The community is connected to the project because the Millennium Village Project is essentially the achievements of the community.
7. Community is able to understand the intregal role they play in the project because they have created a culture of social entreprenuership. Farmers who have irrigated the fields and planted sustainable plants like napier grass and american pomergrante plants will go from having no profit to an income of 500 dollars a year. The mothers who spent their time caring for sick babies, can now invest that energy into a new village business of weaving traditonal baskets, because they now have adiment healthcare. Throughout the village many businesses have sprouted such as hair salons and markets,and they have created their own thriving economy. The villagers have excepted that they were responsible in part for what went wrong and now they will take on the roll of making t right.
Ana Vasquez
English 1A
April12, 2012
Wanda Sabir
Frontline: Cambodia, The Silk Grandmothers: Weaving a new life from a lost art.
We meet the social entrepreneur with the name Kikuo Morimoto a Japanese textile artist who is a well known artist in Kimonos. The problem that this social entrepreneur profiled was bringing back the art of Cambodian silk making. His goal was to bring back what were generations passed down of the art of silk making. He was eventually able to find the seven grandmothers who knew exactly what they needed to do. He came in contact with them through the United Nations organization. They thought it was important to bring back a tradition of making art through silk making. The name of the organization was The “Silk Grandmothers”. The relationship that the community serves is bringing back the forgotten art of silk making. Morimoto believes people have forgotten the importance of it. So he brings it back through the beauty of their culture. Morimoto has a great passion for art and wants to share it with the people of Cambodia and wants to help save the tradition, so that they can keep it alive. They began with an Institute Khmer of Traditional Textiles. But Morimoto pointed the way to research the women that knew the secrets to the art of silk making. Morimoto felt that silk-makers should get more for their hard work in silk making, and that the tradition should be kept alive. Morimoto made a silk production to help the people in need and make more than an average Cambodian would earn a year. The community felt that this organization was good, and it kept the tradition alive, it was a good honest and good work.
Courtney Coleman
Professor Sabir
English 1A
Re: Frontline World (Social Entrepreneur)
12 April 2012
Tibet: Eye Camp
Reported by: Isaac Solotaroff
1. Who is the social entrepreneur profiled?
The entrepreneur Dr. Marc Lieberman profiled people with bad vision and hospitals that didn’t provide high quality procedures for the poor people who were unable to afford healthcare.
2. What problem did the person profiled identify?
Dr. Marc Lieberman identified Tibetans who were losing their vision because they were exposed to solar radiation that caused cataracts for thousands of people.
3. What is the name of the organization they started?
The organization Dr. Marc Lieberman started was called “The Tibet Vision Project”.
4. Describe their relationship to the community that they serve?
The relationships with surgeons in Tibet were much fulfilled with pleasure to help the people in need. The surgeons did thousands of surgeries procedures to save people vision in Northern Tibet of Sox Xian. The surgeons were happy to help the people to improve their vision. The surgeons were also happy to impress the patients’ families.
5. Why did the person decide to address this issue?
Dr. Marc Lieberman decided to address the issue because Tibet was a place where solar radiation caused a high risk for cataracts. Tibet had a huge epidemic of Cataracts. Tibet was the largest population of solar radiation exposure and Tibetans were poor people with limited healthcare services.
6. What is the local component?
The local component was in the Tibet. The characteristic of Tibet were the risk of cataracts exposure because the country was the largest epidemic of solar radiation.
7. How does the community own the process, that is, feel as if they are integral to the success of the venture or business?
The cataracts disease was rampant. Tibet had a high risk exposure to solar radiation. In 1996, the surgeons did 3,000 surgeries to save people vision in Tibet; otherwise thousands of people would be blind, thousands of people traveled to Northern Tibet of Sok Xian to obtain the healthcare because the lack of healthcare services for the poor people. The patients were impressed with their surgeons work. The patients were happy the organization was found.
Jovita Wechsler
English 1A
Prof. Wanda Sabir
1.Who is the social entrepreneur profiled?
The social entrepreneur is Dr. Alyona Lewis, who is originally from Moscow, Russia. When she was a child her father decided to move back to his hometown, Freetown. She became a doctor and was student to Dr. Gadelkareem Ahmad, an Egyptian obstetric fistula surgeon.
2.What problem did the person profiled identify?
She came across IMC’s (International Medical Corps) program when she began her residency at Princess Christian Maternity Hospital and saw this huge problem problem that women in Sierra Leone had and how there was no one to help them and became an obstetric fistula surgeon.
3.What is the name of the organization they started?
Dr. Lewis didn’t necessarily start an organization, but recommended Mercy Ships, which is known for their vessel hospitals that dock at ports around the world, to build a land-based fistula clinic in Freetown.
4.Describe their relationship to the community that they serve?
Dr. Lewis’ relationship to the community is basically to be the one to help these women whose problem is mostly ignored and that don’t have help.
5. Why did the person decide to address this issue?
She decides to address this issue mainly because she doesn’t understand why it should be ignored, since one sees how young the women are and how they have no help in a country that has been devastated by a civil war.
6.What is the local component?
To help women who have been shunned by family and friends due to their illness. To help them recuperate a sense of normalcy in their lives .
7.How does the community own the process, that is, feel as if they are integral to the success of the venture or business?
The community owns the process in the sense that they are the proof of the success of the program and how it actually works, and that there is a cure for obstetric fistulas.
Jovita Wechsler
English 1A
Prof. Wanda Sabir
1.Who is the social entrepreneur profiled?
The social entrepreneur profiled is Dr. Marc Lieberman, he is an ophthalmologist
2.What problem did the person profiled identify?
The problem he identified were the places with high incidence of cataracts in Tibet
3.What is the name of the organization they started?
The name of the organization is the Tibet Vision Project
4.Describe their relationship to the community that they serve?
Dr. Lieberman and his American colleagues perform cataracts surgeries on Tibetans, as well as train the local doctors how to perform the surgeries and give them the supplies necessary to perform such surgeries.
5. Why did the person decide to address this issue?
He decided to address this issue because he is a very spiritual man and he had been inspired by the Dalai Lama to pursue this medical mission
6.What is the local component?
The idea is to give medical care for these Tibetans who have a very low income and can’t afford it, which makes life for them very difficult seeing as they are nomads. It also affects their religious life since they are buddhists and if they are blind there’s the risk of killing another living being.
7.How does the community own the process, that is, feel as if they are integral to the success of the venture or business?
The community is able to enjoy a life where they are no longer blind and have the capacity to fulfill their lives.
Jovita Wechsler
English 1A
Prof. Wanda Sabir
1.Who is the social entrepreneur profiled?
The social entrepreneurs are: former rocket science Jim Frutcherman and one of his employees Dr. Patrick Ball
2.What problem did the person profiled identify?
Frutcherman realized that it was very important for the people of Guatemala to know what had happened to their loved ones during the civil war. Realizing what was at stake if these documents weren’t saved
3.What is the name of the organization they started?
The name of the organization is Benetech.
4.Describe their relationship to the community that they serve?
They are helping the human right activists in Guatemala to find answers to their questions and bring peace of mind to the people that were affected by the civil war.
5. Why did the person decide to address this issue?
Because they felt it was an injustice that they had to fight.
6.What is the local component?
They basically helped the people from the human rights center save the archives.
7.How does the community own the process, that is, feel as if they are integral to the success of the venture or business?
The community is now able to save these files for future reference and save a part of their history.
Courtney Coleman
Professor Sabir
English 1A
Re: Frontline World (Social Entrepreneur)
12 April 2012
India- Design Like You Give a Damn
Reported by: Singeli Agenew
1. Who is the social entrepreneur profiled?
Kate Stohr profiled people who lost their homes during the tsunami.
2. What problem did the person profiled identify?
Kate Stohr profiled identified the tsunami, the storm that destroyed India houses and hospitals.
3. What is the name of the organization they started?
The organization Kate Stohr started was the “Architecture for Humanity”.
4. Describe their relationship to the community that they serve?
The architects’ dreams were to help people that were involved in the tsunami. The architects were open to provide services; they wanted to improve others lives. The architects improved sheltering, hospitals and schools for the people in India.
5. Why did the person decide to address this issue?
Kate Stohr decided to address the issue of the destroyed buildings caused by a tsunami. The tsunami caused people to be homeless and hungry. The tsunami affected people food, clean drinking water, healthcare and education.
6. What is the local component?
The local components were the people affected by the tsunami, the storm destroyed their homes, food, clean drinking water, healthcare and education.
7. How does the community own the process, that is, feel as if they are integral to the success of the venture or business?
The communities were involved during the projects, people in the community were asked to draw what they needed in their community. The people were excited and happy; they get a chance to live better. The architects arranged for the clients to live on fifty cent a day. The schools and hospitals built were successful.
Courtney Coleman
Professor Sabir
English 1A
Re: Frontline World (Social Entrepreneur)
12 April 2012
Vietnam: Wheel of Change
Reported by: Marjorie McAfee
1. Who is the social entrepreneur profiled?
The entrepreneur Ralf Hotchkiss profiled people who are disabled.
2. What problem did the person profiled identify?
Ralf Hotchkiss identified people in wheelchair, in Vietnam, it is not wheelchair friendly. It is hard place for people in wheelchairs to be active.
3. What is the name of the organization they started?
The organization Ralf Hotchkiss started was called the “Whirlwind Wheelchair International”.
4. Describe their relationship to the community that they serve?
They served inexpensive wheelchairs called the “Rough Rider”. The invention was found satisfying to people that was disabled. The organization believes in high quality wheelchairs for a cheap price. The inventor was glad to discover a better way to make mobility easier for disable people. The organization has donated the wheelchairs at several different events. The importances of their product were to make mobility easier and comfortable and also heavy duty.
5. Why did the person decide to address this issue?
Ralf Hotchkiss decided to address the issue because in Vietnam mobility was difficult for disable people in wheelchairs.
6. What is the local component?
The local component was the people that were disable and could not be active because Vietnam was not wheelchair friendly.
7. How does the community own the process, that is, feel as if they are integral to the success of the venture or business?
The Rough Rider was successful business. The Rough Rider was made with recycled materials. The Rough Rider is inexpensive to buy and to fix. The Rough Rider wheelchair users say the wheelchair was comfortable and toughly built.
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