Frontline World: Engaged Citizenry Cyber-Assignment
Frontline World Cyber-Assignment Post(s) http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/stories/socialentrepreneurs.html
Respond to 3 stories between 7/12/2012-07/20/2012. Bring in headphones for the computer. Post your Frontline World Responses (3) 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/business(es) they started?
4.Describe his or her relationship to the community served?
• Why they decided to address this issue?
5.What is the local component, that is, how does the community own the process?
6. How is success measured?
7. What are the evaluative tools?
Frontline World Cyber-Assignment Post(s) http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/stories/socialentrepreneurs.html
Respond to 3 stories between 7/12/2012-07/20/2012. Bring in headphones for the computer. Post your Frontline World Responses (3) 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/business(es) they started?
4.Describe his or her relationship to the community served?
• Why they decided to address this issue?
5.What is the local component, that is, how does the community own the process?
6. How is success measured?
7. What are the evaluative tools?
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India: Design like you give a damn
1. Perima Anakutchen
2. Help rebuild structures in the community for long term.
3. Architecture for Humanity
4. Parima’s relationship with the community deepens, and they throw a party in her honor for the work she has done. She has helped them become proud of their own village. Parima decided to address the issue, because she wanted to help make a difference in their lives, but at the same time, has always wanted to do this kind of work.
5. The community gets jobs to help build the structures, which generates income, and also creates a sense of unity for the village.
6. Success is measured by the communities response to the desings and interactive roles each play that involves these structures as a part of their everyday lives.
7.
Guatemala: The Secret Files
1. Ahora Elena Foulfan
2. Dedicated to find out the truth about what happened during the war
3. F
4. For a lot of people involved with the Police Archive Research, it was personal, because a lot of fmily members were secretly killed, and people wanted to find out the truth.
5. The community has begun to help by volunteering to aid in the search through the archive, in order to speed up the process. Even the president has helped by opening the Army archives to allow the truth to be set free.
6. The Guatemala war is no longer is taboo, and more people have openly began to help in the search for the truth.
Mexic: The business of saving trees
1. Patti Rouese Corso
2. She identified a problematic ideology the people of mexico had by thinking they could just throw away their garbage anywhere they wanted.
3. Sierrra Gorda Biosphere
4. Want’s to create a new livelihood for the community.
5. Some farmers are willing to give up their crops and turn them into forests so give back to nature and the community.
6. A new sense of hope.
7. The more people that help in care about nature, the more her organization will be able to do for the world.
Put a heading on the posts. Otherwise, you will not get credit for the work.
Oh, also answer in complete sentences. Incorporate part of the question in the answer.
Anthony Gamarra
Professor Sabir
English 1A
11 July 2012
India: Design like you give a damn
1. The social entrepreneur profiled was Perima Anakutchen.
2. Perima identified the living conditions of the community to be unhealthy for everyone.
3. Perima started became part of the organization, Architecture for Humanity.
4. Parima’s relationship with the community deepens, and they throw a party in her honor for the work she has done. She has helped them become proud of their own village. Parima decided to address the issue, because she wanted to help make a difference in their lives, but at the same time, has always wanted to do this kind of work.
5. The community owns the process by getting jobs to help build the structures, which generates income, and also creates a sense of unity for the village.
6. Success is measured by the
communities’ response to the designs and interactive roles each plays that involves these structures as a part of their everyday lives.
7.
Guatemala: The Secret Files
1. The social entrepreneur profiled was Ahora Elena Foulfan
2. Ahora identified the communities’ lack of knowledge of the whereabouts of the men who were kidnapped during the war to be the problem.
3. With the help of Benetech,
Ahora and the people of Guatemala struggle to find out the truth.
4. For a lot of people involved with the Police Archive Research, it was personal, because a lot of fmily members were secretly killed, and people wanted to find out the truth.
5. The community has begun to help by volunteering to aid in the search through the archive, in order to speed up the process. Even the president has helped by opening the Army archives to allow the truth to be set free.
6. The Guatemala war is no longer taboo, and more people have openly begun to help in the search for the truth.
7.
Mexico: The business of saving trees
1. Patti Rouese Corso was the woman profiled.
2. Patti Corso identified a problematic ideology the people of mexico had by thinking they could just throw away their garbage anywhere they wanted.
3. Patti organization is the Sierrra Gorda Biosphere.
4. Patti want’s to create a new livelihood for the community, and llow everyone to understand how they too can help save the world.
5. Some farmers are willing to give up their crops and turn them into forests so give back to nature and the community.
6. Success is measured by the community’s new sense of hope.
7. The more people help care about nature, the more her organization will be able to do for the world.
Tiffany Chang
Professor Wanda Sabir
English 1A
16 July 2012
Cambodia: The Silk Grandmothers
1.The social entrepreneur being profiled is Kikuo Morimoto, a famous fabric craftsman from Japan.
2.Morimoto sees that as a result of the continuous wars, Cambodia’s silk weaving tradition is dying, and he wants to bring it back because Cambodian women are some of the best silk weavers in the world. They have practiced the art for generations, but it runs the risk of disappearing because many civilians died because of the wars, and took the secrets of the craft with them. When he visits Cambodia, he also notices that the women were still silk-weaving were being paid ridiculously low wages, and their talents were being wasted.
3.The organization created was a silk production studio called the Institute for Khmer Traditional Textiles in Siem Reap.
4.Although Morimoto does not live in Cambodia, he comes to the village frequently and checks the progress and success of the women. He is very committed to the community and has no other motive but to revive the stunning art that he enjoys. The craftsman restarts the economy by providing work for the local people in the organization. Over four hundred workers contribute to the silk weaving process, and make eighty to two hundred dollars a month from the business. With the boost in income, the families can provide food for their families.
5.Morimoto was able to save the art by having a few “silk grandmothers,” or elderly women who still “knew the secrets of silk weaving,” teach the tradition to younger generations. This way, the practice can be passed down to the future generations to come, and the world can still have these beautiful fabrics. The local expert women also oversee the other processes being done to produce the silk fabrics. After Morimoto obtains the piece of land that he grows mulberry trees on, the local farmers feed the golden silk worms to produce the cocoons that are essential in the silk weaving process.
6.Since the authentic fabrics have made a comeback, the woven silk cloth is displayed in various museums around the world, including the Smithsonian Museum in Washington D.C. The profits of the fabrics from around the world come to be approximately $350,000.
7.The business of the silk fabric is enough proof to show that Morimoto’s institute is a success. The continuous sales provide profit to the people, which they can in turn use to improve their everyday lives. The villagers would also say that they are glad the community is working together again, like it used to be.
Vietnam: Wheels of Change
1.The social entrepreneur profiled is Ralf Hotchkiss, a disabled San Francisco State engineer professor.
2.Hotchkiss notices the inconvenience of wheelchairs and thinks of how especially difficult it is for the disabled people in wheelchairs living in developing countries where the roads are uneven. As a result, the engineer creates a more durable and useful design for himself, as well as the people in poor countries.
3.The organization that Hotchkiss creates is called the Whirlwind Wheelchair Network. This program gathers the necessary funds from countries like America to pay for the expenses. It also provides small wheelchair-making factories with the needed tools to build the design and sell. The organization helps the factories enough that some wheelchairs can even be given to those in need free of charge.
Tiffany Chang
Professor Wanda Sabir
English 1A
16 July 2012
4.Hotchkiss and his associate, Marc Klizak, are very helpful to the community. Hotchkiss is the one who thinks of the new design that accommodates the rough and undeveloped streets of third-world countries. He sees that buying upgraded wheelchairs may also be difficult, so his program makes them affordable and obtainable. In addition, when concerns arise about the wheelchairs, for example from individuals like Quan, Toan’s friend, Klizak himself goes to visit Quan. Klizak is able to personally alter the design to make the wheelchair more suitable for Quan.
5.The local men utilize the tools that the organization provides, and is able to build the wheelchairs in the community, so they can be distributed to the surrounding area. The organization, as stated before, raises money to send the proper tools to the factories that sell these affordable wheelchairs. Hotchkiss states that he wants the wheelchairs to be inexpensive to make.
6.The professor has made his wheelchair available in many countries such as Iraq, South Africa, and Mexico. Many disabled individuals are able to compete in local athletic tournaments thanks to the RoughRiders.
7.Frequent interviews confirm that Whirlwind Wheelchair Network is a success. The local people are really happy for the improved wheelchairs and demonstrate the abilities they can do now that couldn’t before. Hotchkiss sees the effectiveness of the RoughRider now, and hopes that there will be new designs in the future that may be even more useful than his, and improve the tough conditions of the disabled in developing countries.
Tibet: Eye Camp
1.The social entrepreneur being profiled is Dr. Marc Lieberman.
2.The problem being identified is the lack of eye cataract patient care and treatment in rural areas of Tibet.
3.The name of organization that is formed is the Tibet Vision Project. The purpose of this organization is to train eye doctors to perform cataract surgeries that will help those who have lost their sight due to this condition in Tibet. The areas that the doctors travel to are extremely far from the hospitals in the bigger cities.
4.Dr. Lieberman, and his colleague, Dr. Melvyn Bert, visit Tibet twice a year to train more doctors to perform the surgeries. The doctors greet the two men with much respect and happiness. He goes to the eye camps to treat the patients and gives them the care and attention that they have been waiting for. He truly cares for the patients, and this is proved when he is turned away from the hospitals that he wanted to run the eye camps. He refuses to take a run-down poor conditioned “hospital” that was set aside for the camp, saying that the patients do not deserve “second-rate treatment.” He is determined to give them the best care possible.
5.Due to Dr. Lieberman’s training, many eye doctors, including Dr. Zheng Gui Ying, have mastered the cataract surgery and are able to help patients quickly and effectively. These local doctors then teach others how to do the operation, and the possibility of medical treatments increase substantially.
6.There have been twelve eye camps made since 1996. Over 3,000 cataract surgeries have been performed, resulting in 3,000 people being able to see again. In Lhasa, Tibet alone, Dr. Lieberman and the team were able to operate on one hundred out of three hundred patients, fully restoring their eye health back to normal.
7.Dr. Lieberman measures the success of the eye camps by making annual trips to check for the progress. Dr. Lieberman’s success can be seen in the many patients being able to see again. The trained doctors who have the ability to help much more people serve as confirmation that the camps are effective. With the building of two to three new eye camps each year, Dr. Lieberman and his organization gives hope to the people. More and more care can be given to the people in rural Tibet now.
Chie Shan Chan
Professor Sabir
English 1A
19 July 2012
Frontline World Video Responses
Vietnam: Wheels of Change
1. The social entrepreneur profiled is Ralf Hotchkiss, who is a disabled engineering professor at San Francisco State University.
2. Being in a wheelchair himself, Hotchkiss wanted to create a wheelchair that would be more convenient and durable for him to use. With that in mind, he thought broader and decided to create a wheelchair that would be easy to use all around the world, especial in third world countries.
3. The organization that Hotchkiss started is the Whirlwind Wheelchair Network. This program helps gather and pay for the funds needed to build wheelchairs. It is also made convenient for wheelchair customers by marketing the “Roughriders” (wheelchairs) through tiny marketing businesses.
4. Hotchkiss knew the everyday challenges for wheelchair users to get around. Hotchkiss and Mark Krizack collect ideas and materials from all around the world to put together to create the ideal wheelchair. They maintain contact with Toan, who is a Vietnam citizen with a disability. Mark has personally to help people who need a Roughrider and make modifications that best suit them.
5. The community is able to utilize local and cheap materials to construct the wheelchairs. The labor for making it is also cheap. The cheap cost of making a wheelchair and the affordable price of buying it is beneficial for many disabled citizens in Vietnam.
6. Not only are Roughriders highly complimented by its users, it is also widely used around the world. It has given access to many third-countries like Mexico, Iraq, and South Africa.
7. Hotchkiss’s success on his chair is clearly demonstrated through the interviews that footage of the Vietnam wheelchair users. It also states that it will continue to spread and improve its wheelchairs.
India: A New Life
1. The social entrepreneur profiled is Father Thomas Koshy, who is a Catholic Salesian priest.
2. Koshy has witnessed countless of children sleeping on the streets. Children only earn money through collecting recyclables from the streets and soon adapts to their street life. But Koshy believed that these children deserved a better life than being stuck on the streets.
3. Koshy started the New Life Children’s Home where this program helps provide opportunities to children living in the streets and pave a new road to their future.
4. Koshy is the Catholic priet in the community and aspired to help the children. He couldn’t withstand the children’s life being wasted away on the streets. One example is a street boy, Santosh who lost an arm and leg through playing on the train tracks was able to rejuvenate from his life on the streets and start a career life.
5. The street living children who are able to start a new life helps create a positive motivation and influence on other children to not live in the streets. The government and certain high caste Hindus help pay for fund to continue operating the program.
6. This program is still continuously for seventeen years, helping around in the cities of Infia. It has been shown to have helped twenty five thousand children in twelve different cities.
7. It is supportive enough that this program has been able to help so much children and still continue to operate till this day. Many children under the program have been able to get out of the streets and even start their own businesses.
Chie Shan Chan
Professor Sabir
English 1A
19 July 2012
Ecuador: Country Doctors
1. The social entrepreneur profiled is Edgar Rodas who is a government official and was formally the mister of health for Ecuador.
2. Rodas sees the difficulties of health attention in third-world rural countries. Rural areas have a hard time of keeping up with modern medicine coming up and they are often too poorto even afford for medical care. Most of the people without health care are large enough to make up a lot of the population.
3. He created the Cinterandes Foundation, which helps provide health services and care to rural poor areas. It was funded in 1995 with volunteer surgeons willing to support and work with Rodas’s ideas. This program has expanded to also including a mobile-surgery program where doctors travel to places in need of medical attention and give them immediate care.
4. As he is a government official, he aspired to make his country a better place for people to live in. He also studied as a medical student during his earlier life, so he understands the importance of maintaining the health of people. A healthy life makes a health future.
5. Many surgeons and doctors travel around and spend their time helping patients with their medical problems. Most of the funds are maintained through the help of many American and European owners.
6. The program has been operating for twelve years and done as many as five thousand two hundred operations, also providing health care for over fifty thousand people in Ecuador. Much more people are able to receive the medical attention when they need it.
7. The continuous funds that will keep the program running will keep providing more medical care to people across Ecuador.
Name: Tsgereda Leul
Professor Wanda Sabir
Date: 19 July 2012
English 1A summer 2012
India: A New Life -- Getting children off the streets
1. The social entrepreneur being profiled is Father Thomas Koshy.
2. In the southern Indian city of Vijayawada, homeless children are sleeping in bus terminals, railway stations, and corner of the city. The children life on the streets is harsh and dangerous.
3. Father Thomas Koshy teamed up with his old friend Anu Dasaka, a psychologist and high-caste Hindu to start the New Life Children's Home center (Navajeevan Bala Bhavan) that gives shelter to the homeless children.
4. Koshy’s New Life Children's Home center is welcoming to all the kids who live on the street. Koshy stated that a child could become addicted and like the freedom of street life. Father Koshy employs former street kids as part of the rehabilitation process to draw children into shelter and care. He believes those children deserve to have a childhood.
5. Father Thomas Koshy organization helps the community in several ways: Getting those children off the street to giving them shelter, education, and also change their life, so they can help others like them.
6. It’s been 17 years since Father Koshy and Dasaka have been running the program. They have being successful by helping more than 25,000 children come off the streets, and the organization now runs 12 centers in the city, sheltering and educating both boys and girls.
7. Koshy and Dasaka helped a lot of children. For example the 26 year old Santosh, a former street child got his masters degree to be a social worker by the help of New Life Children's Home center and now he is helping other kids at center. And Dasaka believes the organization is also successful because it embraces children of all castes and religions, a practice that is not necessarily reflected in Indian society as a whole.
Vietnam: Wheels of Change
1. The social entrepreneur being profiled is Ralf Hotchkiss.
2. Hotchkiss identifies the problem of disabled people not having good wheelchair that worked well enough to go long distance in all of the difficult situations in developing countries.
3. Hotchkiss’ organization is called Whirlwind Wheelchair Network. The organization not only transfers new technology to wheelchair factories, but also markets the chairs to raise the money. In addition to that the organization also helps raise money from Western foundations to help the coast of chairs.
4. Hotchkiss’ technologies are open to the community. Hotchkiss’ associate, Marc Klizack travels to Vietnam to check in with Toan Nguyen to introduce the latest innovation from San Francisco and to address any issues from the people who use the RoughRider. For instance, Quan didn’t like the RoughRider at first but after Klizack pay him a visit and make the wheelchair more comfortable to use for him, he decided to keep the wheelchair. This shows how they have a good relationship with the community.
5. The RoughRiders are made using locally available materials and inexpensive labor from the community. It creates job opportunities to the people. It’s Hotchkiss’ dream that to make the RoughRider easily and coast effectively in any place in the world.
6. Hotchkiss’ is very successful. He took the RoughRider to dozens of countries, including Mexico, Iraq and South Africa to help many disabled people.
7. With Whirlwind’s help, the RoughRider is being donated and sold to a lot of people. The wheelchair is designed to be easily modified, comfortable, and easy to use in difficult situations in the developing countries.
Name: Tsgereda Leul
Professor Wanda Sabir
Date: 19 July 2012
English 1A summer 2012
Nepal: A Girl's Life -- Making room to read
1. The social entrepreneur being profiled is John Wood.
2. Wood went to the mountains of Nepal to get away from work. He was fascinated by the county’s beauty, but also found out the country was in deep poverty. When he visited a school, he noticed the library was empty. Then the headmaster said, "Perhaps sir, you will someday come back with books."
3. John Wood’s organization is a literacy program called Room to Read. He started the organization with his stack’s auction from Microsoft.
4. John Wood returned to Nepal with eight donkeys, all carrying books. The children, teachers and also parents were very happy. After that he started the organization to help the people escape poverty. Room to Read’s goal is to help the children develop a reading habit at a young age and educate the young generation.
5. The organization is now run and staffed by Nepalese. Rooms to Read build lots of libraries but it wasn’t enough, so they decided to expand their project to build schools. The community was involved to help with building the schools.
6. Room to Read program that has already established more than 1,300 libraries and their goal is to expand the libraries faster than Starbucks. Now they are helping to build schools, publish children's books, conduct writing workshops for kids, and offer scholarships. The organization is successful because they helped a lot of children, specially focusing on girls throughout Nepal.
7. Wood expanded the program from Nepal to seven other countries. He also wrote a book, Leaving Microsoft to Change the World, it’s about his experience. Because of the scholarship they give to girls, most of them are coming to school even though their parents can’t afford to send them. He changed the life of those children.
Josefina Belloso
Professor Wanda Sabir
English 1A
20 July 2012
Frontline World: Engaged Citizenry Cyber-Assignment
Mexico: The Business of Saving Trees
1.The Social entrepreneur profiled is Pati Ruiz Corso.
2. Corso identified the problem that the habitants from a small community in Mexico were facing; they were throwing their garbage everywhere, not minding the consequences.
3.The name of the business they started is Sierra Gorda Biosphere.
4. Corso wants to create a friendlier environment fro the habitants, she explains to them how planting trees and having a clean environment is good fro everyone.
• Because it worried Corso how the community did not know the consequences of them throwing their garbage everywhere, the unawareness they had about their environment.
5. The community gives hours to help plant trees and give their spaces, instead of having their crops they plant trees, but in return they get paid.
6. A renewed sense of hope, more benefices year after year Corso says.
7. The more the community understands and helps they bigger her project will turn to.
Nepal: A Girl’s Life—Making room to read
1. The social entrepreneur profiled in this video is John Wood.
2. Wood visited the mountains of Nepal to get away, and then he found out about its poverty. He visited a school; he then realized the library did not have books.
3. The name of the organization Wood started is Room to Read.
4. He returned to Nepal with donkeys that were carrying books that made the community really excited. The intention of this project he started was to help kids grow a reading practice, and for them to receive education.
• When Woods went to that school’s library and he saw it empty and when the librarian told him that hopefully some day he returns with books for them, that made John Woods think about his project.
5. Rooms to Read is being ran by the Nepal people, by the community. Since libraries were not enough they had to build schools and the Nepalese were involved in the building part as well.
6. Their project is expanding, they have built more than 1,300 libraries and their goal is to expand even more. They have help tons of children, to help them gain education.
7. Parents are supporting his project by send their children to the schools Room to Read has built and to the libraries, the community knows it is good for them.
India: A New Life
1. The social entrepreneur profiled is Father Thomas Koshy.
2. He identified the problem of children sleeping on the streets, with earning money by collecting recyclables out from the streets.
3. The name of the organization Father Thomas Koshy started is New Life Children’s Home; this organization helps bring opportunities to children that live on the streets.
4. Father Thomas Koshy employs the children; it is part of the rehabilitation process to bring them off the street.
• Father Thomas Koshy believes that it is not the right way for the children to live about, he believes that they deserve a better childhood than the one they live on the streets.
5. He helps children off the street and gives them shelter and educations, so they can do the same thing with the other children who are like them, though they still are living on the streets.
6. This organization has been going for 17 years; they have helped more than 25,000 children by brining them off the streets. They now have 12 centers running in the city.
7. This organization has helped many children come out the streets; they have gained education and now live a better life. Some of these children have even started their own business.
Juan Santoyo
Professor Wanda Sabir
English 1A Summer 2012
July 20 2012
Frontline World Video Response
Mexico: The Business of Saving Trees
1. Patti Rouese Corso is the social entrepreneur in this segment.
2. Patti informs the people of Mexico from throwing their trash in the river and the effects it has on the environment.
3. The name of the organization is Sierra Gorda Biosphere.
4. Patti is trying to save the forest and build a more cleaner/better livelihood.
5. Local farmers from the Sierra Gorda are encouraged and paid $360 a year by the United Nations Development Fund to plant Pine and Cedar trees.
6. The success is measured by the growth in jobs, resources, and media attention the Sierra Gorda community has received.
7.
Guatemala: The Secret Files
1. Ahora Elena Foulfan is the social entrepreneur in this segment.
2. Ahora tries to uncover the truth the truth of what happened to those people who were mysteriously killed/ disappeared.
3. The name of the organization is called Benetech.
4. They decided to address this issue so the people could uncover the mysteries of what actually happened to their loved ones, the people wanted answers.
5. The ommunity helps by volunteering their time and help speed up the process of searching through archives.
6. The success is measured by how much of the truth they’ve uncovered, this new knowledge brings hope to those who seek to know the truth.
7.
Vietnam: Wheels of Change
1. Ralf Hotchkiss is the social entrepreneur in this segment.
2. Hotchkiss wants to build the ultimate wheelchair that can be used in any types of terrain and environments suitable for the user. He himself is disabled and uses the wheelchair.
3. The name of the organization is Whirlwind Wheelchair Network. Their most successful wheelchair is called the Rough Rider.
4. Hotchkiss knows the difficulties of being a wheelchair user in countries that aren’t wheelchair friendly. Therefore he is willing to make slight adjustments where needed to the Rough Rider wheelchair. He shares his ideas and doesn’t charge any money to those who build the wheelchairs.
5. The community helps this process by building quality wheelchairs at low costs by using local materials at a cheap price. Therefore its available to more.
6. The success of the Rough Rider has gained a lot of positive attention by wheelchair users around the world. It gives users more freedom and are less scared of accidents from occurring such as from it breaking easily.
7. Hotchkiss success is measured by all the positive his product has received around the world. He one day hopes to revolutionize the way we see today’s wheelchairs.
Dijon Starks
Professor Wanda Sabir
English1A
20 July 2012
Social Entrepreneur Stories
Pakistan – Children of the Taliban: Recruiting and intimidating the next generation
1.The social entrepreneur profiled is Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy, who is a Frontline correspondent.
2.Obaid-Chinoy, identifies by being a native of Pakistan and on a her journey through her homeland witnessing the Taliban rise; taking over traibal areas, murdering thousands, destroying schools, banning women from schools, and the programing of hundreds of civilians to be suicide bombers.
3.Obaid-Chinoy puts herself in the heart of the war of the dangerous war between the Pakistan army and the Taliban to investigate the Taliban and how they are recruiting young boy as young as 5, 7 to challenged their government and embrace death as a blessing.
4.Obaid-Chinoy visits a rehabilitation center in Peshawar and talks with several young victims who were right in the middle where the war is taking place.
5.There are over 18 million children under the poverty line in the Pakistani state and if the war continues, Pakistan will soon belong to the Taliban.
Rwanda: Millennium Village
After 1994 genocide, a country journeys back
1.The social entrepreneur being profiled is Josh Ruskin.
2.Josh idea was that within five years improve life in the rural villages of Africa.
3.The Millennium Villages Project is one of the biggest poverty reduction programs in Africa.
4.Josh runs the Rwanda Millennium village and has come up with ways to improve the life of Africans by first improving the agriculture and opening up health clinics.
5.Villagers were suffering emotionally from the 1994 genocide, 1 in every 10 Rwandan was killed, people in roads begging for food and water, health care was non-existent – 60% of villagers tested for malaria were positive and 15% died before the age of five.
6.With the help of the Millennium Village Project the communities are acquiring businesses, such as a barbershop, farming and basket weaving cooperatives.
7.Success of the project is measured by the launch of 80 Millennium villages spread throughout Africa, which help improve crop diversity and production, health care and education.
South Africa: Inside the Cycle of Rape: A warden's work with sex offenders
1.The social entrepreneur being profiled is Chris Malgus, the warden of the Pollsmour prison in Cape Town, South Africa.
2.Chris who is not only the warden, but a counselor and therapist sees that these prisoners, who have been raised in a culture of violence and convicted rapist because of it, are human and have feelings.
3.Chris has come up with a role playing program in which prisoners put themselves in the shoes of their victim to realize what they’re doing is wrong and would not like it if it were them.
4.South Africa has the highest incident reported of rape in the world. Rape is so common that is has become part of the culture, it’s a way of passage for young men.
5.The prisoners make a connection with the victims they’ve raped and are educated on how a man does not have to rape a woman in order to have intercourse with her.
6.Inmates are not rehabilitated Chris says but are often released from prison with a brand new mind frame of how a real man needs to control his sexual desires and not does not rape women.
Lori Nguyen
Professor Wanda Sabir
English 1A Summer 2012
Mexico: The Business of Saving Trees
1. The social entrepreneur profile is Patti Rouese Corso
2. Patti Rouese identify how the people in Mexico throw away their trash everywhere.
3. The name of the organization Patti started is the Sierrra Gorda Biosphere
4.Patti wants to teach the people how they can change the world.
5.Some people are giving up their land to plant trees.
6. Success is measured with the community new sense of hope because they believe they can make a difference.
7. The greater amount of people being involved and care about the world they can help make it a better place to live.
Vietnam: Wheels of Change
1. The social entrepreneur profiled is Ralf Hotchkiss who is a engineering professor.
2. Hotchkiss identify the trouble of wheelchairs and try to invent a better design for wheelchairs that can be use in difficult places.
3. The organization Hotchkiss started is call the Whirlwind Wheelchair Network
4.Buy upgraded wheelchair may cost alot so Hotchkiss tries to make his wheelchair more affordable to those who need them.
5.What is the local component, that is, how does the community own the process? The wheelchairs are built in the community and given to those in the area.
6. Hotchkiss’s wheelchair is used in other countries such as Mexico, South Africa. and Iraq
7. Due to his improved wheelchair people are able to do things that they couldnt do before
India: Design like you give a damn
1.The social entrepreneur profiled is Perima Anakutchen.
2. Perima identify the building structure.
3.The organization Perima started is call Architecture for Humanity
4. Perima made the people proud of their community.
5.Jobs are given to people in the community to help build the buildings.
6.Success is measured by the people taking action and help improve their community.
7.The more people involved the greater they can help make their community safer and better
Hodge LaTasha
Professor W.Sabir
English 1A
23-July-2012
Vietnam Wheels of Change
1.Who is the social entrepreneur profiled? Read Ralf Hotchkiss and his assistant Marc Krizack.
2.What problem did the person profiled identify? The problem identified was that people in different countries were in need of wheelchairs. The lack of funds and the overall need for sturdier wheelchairs.
3.What is the name of the organization/business(es) they started? The name of the business is Rough Riders.
4.Describe his or her relationship to the community served? He has a very respected relationship with the community, when he first met Mr.Tuong there was an instant connection. There is an ongoing relationship with constant communication regarding new inventions and improvements.
Why they decided to address this issue? Ralf decided to address this issue for his own needs after he became paralyzed in a motorcycle accident over 30 years ago.
5.What is the local component, that is, how does the community own the process? The community owns the process because they make the wheelchairs in their country with local materials. The information given is free, it’s all open source.
6. How is success measured? Ralfs success is measured by the dozens of countries and the peoples he has helped, by sometimes even donating wheelchairs to those that are in real need.
7.What are the evaluative tools? The evaluative tools are the many people he's helped, allowing they to regain their mutability. The happiness shown on their faces as they sing and spin around in their chairs at the Disabled Olympics making Ralf the star of the show.
Pump and Play
1.Who is the social entrepreneur profiled? The social entrepreneur is Trevor Field.
2.What problem did the person profiled identify? Trevor identified that the water was unhealthy, mothers were working to hard for water when should be looking after their children.
3.What is the name of the organization/business(es) they started? Pump and Play also Love Life
Campaign AIDS awareness.
4.Describe his or her relationship to the community served? Trevor has an excellent relationship with the community, giving the children a fun way to help with basic necessities, relieving the mothers from some of the strenuous work of turning a handle to pump water or caring for ill family members.
Why they decided to address this issue? Trevor was obsessed with solving the water problem and after working in the advertising business was ready to give back.
5.What is the local component, that is, how does the community own the process? The community owns the process by having the men from the villages
install the pump and play at schools. The principle says its a hit, the kids come in toss there bags and off they go to play and pump clean water.
6.How is success measured? Success is measured by the many of lives saved, overall providing safe clean water to some ten million people. Also by the recognition Laura Bush gave announcing the 16.4 million dollars that would be donated my the United States government and other partners. Even rapper Jay-Z pledged to raise 400,000 dollars with his Water for Life concert.
7.What are the evaluative tools? The evaluative tools wound be that Trevor will be able to triple the size of his staff providing jobs,clean water, and well needed exercise and joy to the children.
Marisol Mora
Professor Wanda Sabir
English 1A Summer 2012
July 20 2012
Frontline World Video Response
Mexico: The Business of Saving Trees
1. Patti Rouese Corso is the social entrepreneur in this piece.
2. Patti informs the people of Mexico from throwing their trash in the river and the effects it has on the environment and world around us.
3. The name of the organization is Sierra Gorda Biosphere.
4. Patti is trying to save the forest and build a more cleaner/better livelihood.
5. Local farmers from the Sierra Gorda are encouraged and paid $360 a year by the United Nations Development Fund to plant Pine and Cedar trees.
6. The success is measured by the growth in jobs, resources, and media attention the Sierra Gorda community has received.
Guatemala: The Secret Files
1. Ahora Elena Foulfan is the social entrepreneur in this piece.
2. Ahora tries to uncover the mystery of what happened to those people who were mysteriously killed/ disappeared.
3. The name of the organization is called Benetech.
4. They decided to address this issue so the people could uncover the mysteries of what actually happened to their loved ones, the people wanted answers.
5. The community helps by volunteering their time and help speed up the process of searching through archives.
6. The success is measured by how much of the truth they’ve uncovered, this new knowledge brings hope to those who seek to know the truth.
Vietnam: Wheels of Change
1. Ralf Hotchkiss is the social entrepreneur in this piece.
2. Hotchkiss wants to build the ultimate wheelchair that can be used in any types of terrain and environments suitable for the user. He himself is disabled and uses the wheelchair.
3. The name of the organization is Whirlwind Wheelchair Network. Their most successful wheelchair is called the Rough Rider.
4. Hotchkiss knows the difficulties of being a wheelchair user in countries that aren’t wheelchair friendly. Therefore he is willing to make slight adjustments where needed to the Rough Rider wheelchair. He shares his ideas and doesn’t charge any money to those who build the wheelchairs.
5. The community helps this process by building quality wheelchairs at low costs by using local materials at a cheap price. Therefore its available to more.
6. The success of the Rough Rider has gained a lot of positive attention by wheelchair users around the world. It gives users more freedom.
7. Hotchkiss success is measured by all the positive his product has received around the world.
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