Frontline World Assignment: Research Essay Part 1
Frontline World Cyber-Assignment Post
http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/stories/socialentrepreneurs.html
Respond to 3 stories between Oct. 25- Nov. 1 (include the one watched today about Ralf Hotchkiss, an engineering professor at San Francisco State who’s been thinking about wheelchair design for a long time. His business is Whirlwind which makes RoughRider wheel chairs. Read more about the business person and his business at the website: http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/stories/vietnam804/video/video_index.html Visit his website too.)
This is the 8-8:50 AM class. Bring headphones to class daily (just in case).
Post your Frontline World Responses (3) here.
Answer the following questions in your response to the programs.
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?
These questions also form the basis of your essay. Use them as an outline for your paper.
http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/stories/socialentrepreneurs.html
Respond to 3 stories between Oct. 25- Nov. 1 (include the one watched today about Ralf Hotchkiss, an engineering professor at San Francisco State who’s been thinking about wheelchair design for a long time. His business is Whirlwind which makes RoughRider wheel chairs. Read more about the business person and his business at the website: http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/stories/vietnam804/video/video_index.html Visit his website too.)
This is the 8-8:50 AM class. Bring headphones to class daily (just in case).
Post your Frontline World Responses (3) here.
Answer the following questions in your response to the programs.
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?
These questions also form the basis of your essay. Use them as an outline for your paper.
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Keelan Sunglao-Valdez
Professor Sabir
English 1A
11:00-11:50
28 October 2012
Frontline World Assignment
#1 The Sounds of Hope
1. The social entrepreneur is Luise Szar’an.
2. Szar’an identifies the problem of education to youth.
3. The name of the organization is a music education program called “The Sounds of Earth”
4. “The Sounds of Earth” is involved in many cities and communities in South America. The program is also involved in communities suffering from poverty. The most recent school that was opened was dedicated to an orphanage in a poor community. Szaran was inspired by the ancient people of Paraguay, and believed that the youth needed to be guided into growing as an individual.
5. The program moves to different towns and involves many poor communities. Szaran’s goal is to connect with the community in unity and encourage the community to create schools, help the youth, and plan events for the children.
6. The communities usually host events for the children, provide shelters, activities and academics, and build places for the youth to grow.
#2 Vietnam: Wheels of Change
1. The social entrepreneur is Ralf Hotchkiss
2. Hotchkiss identifies the problem of disabled people in foreign countries who struggle with mobility through daily life. Hotchkiss developed a special chair called the “RoughRider” that is more suitable for the terrain of other countries.
3. The organization is called “Whirlwind Wheelchairs.” The organization raises money to sell the chairs to foreign countries,and also helps market the technology sent to factories in other countries.
4.The organization has brought the RoughRider to many countries including, Vietnam, Iraq, South Africa, and Mexico. Hotchkiss decided to address this issue because, as a disabled member of society, he was aware of the struggles of moving through daily life, and all the daily obstacles and situations that presented themselves. Hotchkiss saw a need for a universal chair that was suitable for all people, no matter the terrain or conditions.
5. The program is based in the US but travels to foreign countries to serve those in need of help.
6. The disabled communities in different countries love the idea and all benefit from Hotchkiss’s engineering success.
#3 India: Design Like You Give A Damn
1. The social entrepreneurs are Kate Stohr and Cameron Sinclair
2. Stohr and Sinclair created the program to help rebuild communities that have suffered from natural disasters or any other kind of destruction. The program focuses on communities and villages that have lost support from the outside world.
3. The organization is called “Architecture for Humanity,” and it created a network of architects around the world to help whenever needed.
4. Architecture for Humanity helps communities in distress and gives them shelter to survive and a shelter that can help each community prosper for the future. Stohr and Sinclair started the organization when they came up with the idea of an architectural contest aimed towards helping the crisis over a community of refugees in Kosovo.
5. The reconstruction of the communities brings people together to create a new home. It also brings hope to those who lost everything
6. The communities have a large hand in the input and design of the architecture. Each community begins by giving a list of the things they need, while the architects begin to outline the structures that are best suitable to the communities needs.
Work Cited
"Paraguay: Sounds of Hope." PBS. PBS, n.d. Web. 30 Oct. 2012. .
"Vietnam: Wheels For Change." PBS. PBS, n.d. Web. 30 Oct. 2012. .
"India: Design Like You Give A Damn." PBS. PBS, n.d. Web. 30 Oct. 2012.
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Messi Chaib
Professor Wanda
English 1A
11-11:50am
Socail Entreproneur
#2 Vietnam: Wheels of Change
1-The social entrepreneur profiled is Ralph Hotchkiss.
2-The problem he identified was that wheelchairs were not always compatible with certain terrains such as mud or rocky terrains which makes it hard for wheelchair riders to go through it.
3-Ralph started an organization named " Roughrider."
4-Their relationships with the communities they serve is that Ralph is a disable himself, which gives him understand other disable people's situation in connection with using wheelchairs.
5-Ralph decided to address the issue because he was not comfortable enough with the traditional wheelchairs that were on the market and not able take him to any place he wants to go to.
5-The local component are the 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.
6-The comunity owned the process by using local materials and local workers that are being served. Some modifications on the design are sometimes the result of the comunity members request, which makes the members feel like they are an integral part of the process and Ralph gave his design to small facturies from the comunity to work on it and develop it instead giving it to big companies that does not really know how to make the wheelchair rider happy.
#2:Egypt; Midle East
1. The social entrepreneur profiled is Sraya Salti.
2.The problem was unemployment in Egypt where even students who get a degree dont have a job.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 it made them work for themselves by creating a competition that made them create new things that they did not think about before. They go out to schools and try to motivate and instill entreprenueral mindsets and skills into students before they find themselves unemployed and unmotivated.
. Sraya Salfi decided to address this issue because she realizes that the youth who work furiously to recieve a degree and they do not get a decent job will either serve as an engine for growth and prosperity or a burden on the economy.
5-The local compenent are the INJAZ organization and the student who try their best to win the competition.
6. The community is connected to this organization because INJAZ created a competition that made college students involve in the process, which made them work together and try to do their best to win.
Messi Chaib
Professor Wanda
English 1A
11-11:50am
#3 India: Design Like You Give A Damn
1-The social entrepreneur is 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 .
2-The problem was that the community lost its 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.
3-The name of the organization is Architecture for Humanity.
4- The relationship was that the 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 issue was rebuild new hoses in southern India.
5-The local component are the architect, Sraya Salti, the reporter, Signeli Agnew, the organization, Architecture for Humanity, and the community.
6-The community owned the process by getting involved in choosing the design of the new hoses and helping in building it.
Work Cited
"Egypt: Midle East." PBS, n.d. Web. 30 Oct. 2012. .
"Vietnam: Wheels For Change." PBS. PBS, n.d. Web. 30 Oct. 2012. .
"India: Design Like You Give A Damn." PBS. PBS, n.d.
Merrick Stone
English 1A
Prof. W. Sabir
11:00-12
31 October 2012
Frontline Word Assignment
#1 Wheels of Change
1. The name of the social entrepreneur profiled is Ralph Hotchkiss, a professor at San Francisco State.
2. Hotchkiss identified that standard wheelchair design was not durable enough, and subject to failure on tough terrain particularly in foreign countries. His open source RoughRider wheelchair design is more apt for the rugged terrain in the indigenous third world.
3. Hotchkiss’s organization is called “Whirlwind” they design, donate, and raise money to provide a more durable and more suitable wheelchair to the foreign countries.
4. Hotchkiss is a disabled individual himself due to a motorcycle accident. His experience with wheelchairs helped him to become conscious of the necessity of a more durable and multiple terrain mode of personal transportation for disable members of society throughout the world. Whirlwind has supplied the RoughRider to dozens of different countries and created partnerships around the world to produce them.
5. Whirlwind originated right here in San Francisco with key involvement right from fellow academic institute San Francisco State and has now spread to countries worldwide. The wheelchairs use regular parts that the community is able to provide to make them affordable and easy to repair. The communities host banquets to present the RoughRider wheelchair.
#2 Act Like You Give A Damn.
1. The social entrepreneurs are Cameron Sinclair and Kate Stohr.
2. They addressed the devastation of cities from war and natural disasters that wiped out many buildings and homes leaving the communities desolate and left in rubble. People were without homes. They designed a program to restore shelters and buildings in such communities. They decided to get involved because they realized that their architecture skills would be a key asset in aiding these communities and that there be many other architects who also wanted to help these communities that they could collaborate with.
3. The name of the organization is Architecture for Humanity
4. The organization uses the skill of architects to help these devastated communities in need. They get design inputs from architects that will best serve and be most efficient in helping these communities. They also raise money so such structures and input can be established.
5. Architecture for Humanity headquarters are right here in the heart of San Francisco.
6. They communities got involved by using local materials and workers provided labor that they were compensated for. The communities collaborated and discussed their thoughts and ideas on the architectural design and provided input about what they felt so the designs could be modified to fit them and the communities best.
#3 The Sound of Hope
1. The social entrepreneur is Luise Szaran.
2. He addresses the poor status of local education and many other third-world communities.
3. Luise Szaran started the organization called “The Sounds of Earth” A music based education program.
4. Szaran delivers education through music to poverty stricken communities of South America. Szaran felt music is an essential part of life and wanted to spread it to the youth.
5. They started local orphanages and school facility from which music and other thing are taught.
6. The music students perform shows and help spread the spirit of music throughout their communities.
Merrick Stone
English 1A
Prof. W. Sabir
11:00-12
31 October 2012
Frontline Word Assignment
#1 Wheels of Change
1. The name of the social entrepreneur profiled is Ralph Hotchkiss, a professor at San Francisco State.
2. Hotchkiss identified that standard wheelchair design was not durable enough, and subject to failure on tough terrain particularly in foreign countries. His open source RoughRider wheelchair design is more apt for the rugged terrain in the indigenous third world.
3. Hotchkiss’s organization is called “Whirlwind” they design, donate, and raise money to provide a more durable and more suitable wheelchair to the foreign countries.
4. Hotchkiss is a disabled individual himself due to a motorcycle accident. His experience with wheelchairs helped him to become conscious of the necessity of a more durable and multiple terrain mode of personal transportation for disable members of society throughout the world. Whirlwind has supplied the RoughRider to dozens of different countries and created partnerships around the world to produce them.
5. Whirlwind originated right here in San Francisco with key involvement right from fellow academic institute San Francisco State and has now spread to countries worldwide. The wheelchairs use regular parts that the community is able to provide to make them affordable and easy to repair. The communities host banquets to present the RoughRider wheelchair.
#2 Act Like You Give A Damn.
1. The social entrepreneurs are Cameron Sinclair and Kate Stohr.
2. They addressed the devastation of cities from war and natural disasters that wiped out many buildings and homes leaving the communities desolate and left in rubble. People were without homes. They designed a program to restore shelters and buildings in such communities. They decided to get involved because they realized that their architecture skills would be a key asset in aiding these communities and that there be many other architects who also wanted to help these communities that they could collaborate with.
3. The name of the organization is Architecture for Humanity
4. The organization uses the skill of architects to help these devastated communities in need. They get design inputs from architects that will best serve and be most efficient in helping these communities. They also raise money so such structures and input can be established.
5. Architecture for Humanity headquarters are right here in the heart of San Francisco.
6. They communities got involved by using local materials and workers provided labor that they were compensated for. The communities collaborated and discussed their thoughts and ideas on the architectural design and provided input about what they felt so the designs could be modified to fit them and the communities best.
#3 The Sound of Hope
1. The social entrepreneur is Luise Szaran.
2. He addresses the poor status of local education and many other third-world communities.
3. Luise Szaran started the organization called “The Sounds of Earth” A music based education program.
4. Szaran delivers education through music to poverty stricken communities of South America. Szaran felt music is an essential part of life and wanted to spread it to the youth.
5. They started local orphanages and school facility from which music and other thing are taught.
6. The music students perform shows and help spread the spirit of music throughout their communities.
Works Cited
"Paraguay: Sounds of Hope." PBS. PBS, n.d. Web. 28 Oct. 2012. .
"Vietnam: Wheels For Change." PBS. PBS, n.d. Web. 30 Oct. 2012. .
"India: Design Like You Give A Damn." PBS. PBS, n.d. Web. 31 Oct. 2012.
Luchanda williams
Professor Sabir
English 1A 11-11:50
October 31 2012
Frontline World Assignment
#1 Vietnam: Wheels for Change
1)The social entrepreneur profiled isRalf Hotchkiss.
2)The problem the person profiled identify is that people with wheel chair disabilities in developing countries have no way of getting around without good wheels due to the street condition.
3) The name of the organization they started is called RoughRider
4) Their relationship to the community that they serve is that Roughtrider has been brought to dozens of countries including Mexico, South Africa and Iraq. Due to Hotchkiss experience with wheel chair he was able to create means of transportation for many disable people in developing countries.
5)The local component is that it was originated in San Francisco and became a success even though it started as a project for himself
#2 India: Design Like You Give A Damn
1) The social entrepreneur profiled is McCutcheon and american Architect
2) The problem the person profiled identify is that after natural disaster occur in countries they would quickly be forgotten. So the aim was to help rebuild communities which had been destroyed through natural disaster
3) The name of the organization they started is Architecture for humanity
4) Their relationship to the community that they serve is that a group of architect came together and used their resources and skills in order to design the villagers vision of what the community needs.
5) The local component is that there is one in San Francisco
6) The community own the process by going green because the people of the community live on about fifty cents a day.
#3 The Sounds of Hope
1) The social entrepreneur profiled is Luise Szaran.
2) The problem the person profiled identify is that he talks about how many third-world countries have low education because of their lack of resources.
3) The name of the organization they started is called The Sounds of Earth.
4) Their relationship to the community that they serve is he uses education to bring together the community through music also provides marketing skills for children.
5) The local component is that the program is a home opened for street children, it is an orphanage.
Works Cited
"Vietnam: Wheels For Change." PBS. PBS, n.d. Web. 30 Oct. 2012. .
"India: Design Like You Give A Damn." PBS. PBS, n.d. Web. 30 Oct. 2012.
"Paraguay: Sounds of Hope." PBS. PBS, n.d. Web. 30 Oct. 2012. .
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Joseph Carlo O. Tolentino
Professor Wanda Sabir
English 1A 8:00 – 8:50
28 October 2012
1.Who is the social entrepreneur profiled?
Ralf Hotchkiss
2. What problem did the person profiled identify?
How hard life was for people who need wheelchairs and how unstable wheelchairs are.
3. What is the name of the organization they started?
Whirlwind
4. Describe their relationship to the community that they serve? Why they decided to address this issue?
Ralf Hotchkiss had managed to develop a more stable and stronger wheelchair which helps the disabled from their fears of tumbling over their own unstable wheelchairs.
Ralf didn’t address the issue immediately until he was disabled himself, in turn he thought about making a better wheelchair for himself as well as others who are like him.
5. What is the local component?
The local component are the people who use and promote these wheelchairs, specifically, the crippled ones.
6. How does the community own the process?
In every place that Ralf introduced the Wheelchair, an industry pops outand controlled by a local to be sold to the public. At the same time some of the money is used to donate more wheelchairs to others who can’t afford them.
1. Who is the social entrepreneur profiled?
Purnima McCatcheon
2. What problem did the person profiled identify?
The Destroyed village in India
3. What is the name of the organization they started?
Architecture For Humanity
4. Describe their relationship to the community that they serve? Why they decided to address this issue?
Purnima helped design the new building and the village again to help the villagers find a place to live, go to school and other important stuff. She also wanted to help them build because she had always wanted to make a contribution to the community.
5. What is the local component?
The victims of a massive flood in Inda
6. How does the community own the process?
.The people were the ones who built the building they now used and they had their concerns addressed so the buildings were specifically designed for them.
1. Who is the social entrepreneur profiled?
John Nevado
2. What problem did the person profiled identify?
Lack of Fair trade in the Flower industry in Ecuador
3. What is the name of the organization they started?
Nevada ROses
4. Describe their relationship to the community that they serve? Why they decided to address this issue?
John Nevado sells the roses that his company owns while making sure that the employees are treated fairly, even free day care for employees. One reason before was for profit but then they had understood that the employees must be treated fairly and they also wanted to have a more organic plantation which not only helps the environment, but also provides extra income for the company and the employees who gets hired for them.
5. What is the local component?
The respected workers and consumers who get satisfactory products from the company.
6. How does the community own the process?
Without the community, the flowers would have no one to take care of them as the company needs the happy employees to make them run and become better.
Works Cited:
"India: Design Like You Give A Damn." PBS. PBS, n.d. Web. 28 Oct. 2012.
"Flower Power." PBS. PBS, n.d. Web. 28 Oct. 2012.
"Vietnam: Wheels of Hope." PBS. PBS, n.d. Web. 28 Oct. 2012.
Pablo R. Hernandez
Professor Sabir
English 1A 11-11:50 am
31 October 2012
Frontline Cyber Assignment
Mexico: The business of saving trees
1.Who is the social entrepreneur profiled?
Pati Ruiz Corzo
2.What problem did the person profiled identify?
Human Footprint on the environment
3.What is the name of the organization they started?
Sierra Gorda Biosphere
4.Describe their relationship to the community that they serve?
Pati is very involved with everyone. Pati is like a teacher to the community, showing children that outdoors is better than a concrete jungle.
5.Why they decided to address this issue?
Change the way of living and preserve the forest
6.What is the local component?
Knowledge and willingness
7.How does the community own the process?
The community owns the process because anything benefited from the project gets reinvested into their lives.
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#2 India
1.Who is the social entrepreneur profiled?
Kate Stohr,Cameron Sinclair, Purnima McCutcheon
2.What problem did the person profiled identify?
People in India needed to pass through a rebuilding process
3.What is the name of the organization they started?
Architecture for humanity
4.Describe their relationship to the community that they serve?
The relationship between Fatima and the village was very intimate since Fatima established a relationship and closeness with the village.
5.Why they decided to address this issue?
Because the community had most of its buildings destroyed.
6.What is the local component?
Working together for a better future.
7.How does the community own the process?
They own the process because they have a say in every building and they build them.
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#3 Guatemala
1.Who is the social entrepreneur profiled?
Jim Fruchterman
2.What problem did the person profiled identify?
The need to document and find out the history that was almost erased
3.What is the name of the organization they started?
Benetech
4.Describe their relationship to the community that they serve?
No relationship only to try to uncover the truth
5.Why they decided to address this issue?
Because the country was not over the civil war and wanted to give people the information of people that disappeared during that time.
6.What is the local component?
The local people are helping uncover truth even president.
7.How does the community own the process?
The community is highly involved in the truth and have offered to help and continue to work even when threatened.
Rachel Avalos
Professor Sabir
English 1A 8-8:50AM
31 October 2012
Frontline Worlds #1
1.Who is the social entrepreneur profiled?
Architect Purnima McCutcheon
2.What problem did the person profiled identify?
Tamil Nadu, a village in India, was nearly destroyed by a tsunami and they needed help building for the long term. They needed several buildings and Purninma McCutcheon built one building to fulfill all their needs.
3.What is the name of the organization they started?
Architecture for Humanity, which was started by Kate Stohr and Cameron Sinclair to address the needs of refugees in Kosovo.
4.Describe their relationship to the community that they serve?
Purnima McCutcheon designed the building but ultimately the villagers decided on what needed to be changed or kept the way it was, she moved to the village and the villagers appear to be on friendly terms with her. She has become a part of the community by helping them recover from the tsunami and have a place for a school, a celebration hall and just an overall community center. She also designed other community buildings, and spent twelve years in the village aiding them.
• Why they decided to address this issue?
She wanted to work for a community over a corporation, and wanted to do something that was more personally meaningful.
5.What is the local component?
The villagers of Tamil Nadu aid in the designing process of the building some, also the structure was created so that it fulfilled the needs of the locals and was a “green” building.
6.How does the community own the process?
The construction of the building was all done by the community, they laid the bricks and built the walls that would be their town center, their school and their gathering place.
Rachel Avalos
Professor Sabir
English 1A 8-8:50AM
31 October 2012
Frontline Worlds #2
1.Who is the social entrepreneur profiled?
John Wood, a man who used to work for Microsoft.
2.What problem did the person profiled identify?
Nepal was deep in poverty, most of the children did not have access to schools let alone books.
3.What is the name of the organization they started?
Room to Read.
4.Describe their relationship to the community that they serve?
His organization starts up libraries and schools, as well as give scholarships to girls so that they may complete high school. The community celebrated his return to the country laden with books, and appreciate his aid in helping them overcome poverty and illiteracy by providing small children with books and schooling.
• Why they decided to address this issue?
He traveled to Nepal on vacation and found that the children in a village only had two books in their library, and he was shocked by this fact. He came back a year later to change this and bring literacy to the country.
5.What is the local component?
The children of the villagers have libraries with books that are both in their native language and in English, there are also native storytellers writing books for these libraries and they are being published by Room to Read.
6.How does the community own the process?
Each building is constructed by the village, with the village providing half of the amount needed to build it and then building it themselves. This teaches self reliability and provides for many libraries and schools to be built in the villages. Furthermore, the books printed by Room to Read are printed in their native language, and often written by people who live in Nepal.
Rachel Avalos
Professor Sabir
English 1A 8-8:50AM
31 October 2012
Frontline Worlds #3
1.Who is the social entrepreneur profiled?
Dr. Edgar Rodas.
2.What problem did the person profiled identify?
The rural areas of Ecuador do not have access to medical care.
3.What is the name of the organization they started?
Cinterandes Foundation.
4.Describe their relationship to the community that they serve?
He goes in a portable operation room to perform surgeries for people who cannot afford it, and cannot get to hospitals. His mobile hospital truck helps many people in need of medical attention that cannot pay for it. Other parts of his foundation have medical boats or small clinics in rural areas.
• Why they decided to address this issue?
He was inspired by Project HOPE, and wanted to provide better medical care for the poor or people who lived in rural areas of Ecuador.
5.What is the local component?
The clinic doctors work with the traditional healers of the villages, and work side by side with both western medicine and traditional medicine.
6.How does the community own the process?
The communities have access to medical care partially paid for by donations and funds from the Ecuador government. This medical care allows people who would normally go untreated for their health problems to get the attention they need, be it surgery or medicine. Which in turn allows them to continue with their lives, and their jobs so that they do not sink lower into poverty. The medical care is free and available to the people in remote areas who need it.
Amanda Lara
Professor Sabir
English 1A 8:00AM- 8:50 AM
October 31, 12
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?
1. The social entrepreneur profiled in this video is Ralf Hotchkiss
2. The problem that that he identified was he invented a wheel chair called the rough rider. Its purpose is to help disabled people in other foreign countries move around in mudd and rocky areas easier. Wheel chairs are expensive and a lot of times delicate so this makes it better and more reliable.
3. The name of the organization started is Rough Rider.
4. The relationship is that Ralf Hotchkiss is also disabled just like the people who would need the rough rider. If you have ever been around someone in a wheelchair you would know the importance of a sturdy wheelchair that will get you through rough and rocky areas with out a flat tire. He understood some of the hardships that a disabled person goes through.
5. it is in the united stated but they do offer free wheel chairs to some people in need.
6. Ralf Hotchkiss started in the bay area and with the intention of making it for him, but now other locations use the same design but with different materials that are accessable to them.
"Vietnam: Wheels For Change." PBS. PBS, n.d. Web. 30 Oct. 2012. .
The Sound of Hope
1. The social entrepreneur is Luise Szaran
. 2. Luise Szaran focuses on the education of third world counties that lack better education.
3. He started a music organization called “The Sounds of Earth”.
4. Luisw Szaran teaches music to poor people in South America. He describes music being a essential part of life and felt it was important that they be exposed to it. Especially the children, he felt that it would help them grow spiritually.
5. Luise Szaran started in orphanages and schools.
6. They would play and perform in the community
"Paraguay: Sounds of Hope." PBS. PBS, n.d. Web. 30 Oct. 2012.
1.The social entrepreneur profiled is Pati Ruiz Corzo.
2.The problem Pati 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 it preserves the environment by carbon trading. They are paid by companies to plant trees to reduce a companies carbon footprint.
4.Pati 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.,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.
“Mexico: business of saving trees.”PBS.PBS , n.d. Web. 30 Oct.2012
Abiodun Apata
Professor Wanda
English 1A 8-8:50am
31 October 2012
#1 Vietnam: Wheels of Change
1. Ralf Hotchkiss
2. Hotchkiss identifies the problem of disabled people in foreign countries who are struggling with mobility, especially with wheelchair due to their terrain.
3. Whirlwind Wheelchairs.
4.They brought RoughRider to many countries including, Vietnam, Iraq, South Africa, and Mexico. They manufactured a universal wheelchair that is suitable for all people, no matter the terrain or conditions. They also train local factories to be able to manufacture it on their own using their resources
5. The program was US based to serve those in need and spreading its tentacles to foreign countries.
6. Innovative and early adopter acceptance.
#2 The Sound of Hope
1. Luise Szaran.
2. He identified the poor status of local education and other third-world communities.
3. The Sounds of Earth.
4. He delivers education using music to poverty stricken communities of South America. He believed music is an essential part of life.
5. They started local orphanages and school facility from which music is taught alongside other education.
6. The students organize show and help spread the spirit in their communities.
#3 Rehoboth Economic Development for Women and Children "REDWC"
1. Winney Wakeyo
2. She identify poverty among women and children without education in Ethiopia
3. Rehoboth Economic Development for Women and Children "REDWC"
4. She empowered women and pay for children education. God gave her the mandate to do it
5. She try to raise money and send it to them in Africa
6. The community women embraced the program,
Works Cited
"Paraguay: Sounds of Hope." PBS. PBS, n.d. Web. 28 Oct. 2012. .
"Vietnam: Wheels For Change." PBS. PBS, n.d. Web. 30 Oct. 2012. .
http://www.wredwc.com/
Bianca Hsueh
Professor Sabir
English 1A 11-11:50
31 October 2012
Frontline #1
Delancy Street Foundation
1.The social entrepreneur profiled is Mimi Silbert.
2. The problem that Mimi Silbert identified was the dilemma that when convicts get out of jail, then end up going back to jail or continuing their old ways. The other problem was that ex-convicts do not know how to change or where to start, so Delancy Street helps them with this process.
3. The name of the organization that Mimi Silbert started was the Delancy Street Foundation.
4. Delancy Street serves the community in different facets. They have a moving company and a restaurant that the residents are able to work in. The profits from these businesses go right back into the program to help the residents.
5. They decided address this issue because ex –convicts do not know how to restart their lives outside of jail. This program allows them to do something with their life and restart. It allows them to do good deeds to better themselves.
6. The local component is to run the business such as the moving company so that the residents are able to work in the business
7. The community owns the process by running the businesses and employing the residents who will work there. There are moving companies, restaurants and many more across the country.
Bianca Hsueh
Professor Sabir
English 1A 11-11:50
31 October 2012
Frontline #2
Whirlwind Wheelchair International
1. The social entrepreneur being profiled is Ralf Hotchkiss.
2. The problem that Ralf Hotchkiss identified was the lack of good-quality wheelchairs in developing countries.
3. The name of the organization that they started is called Whirlwind Wheelchair International.
4. The relationship to the community that they serve is that they give the design of the wheelchair to a manufacturer in a developing country, That manufacturer then makes the wheelchair and gives them to the people who need them in the community. The manufacturer does not need to pay for the design.
5. They decided to address this issue because many people in developing countries are unable to have a wheelchair that can handle rough conditions. They targeted the use of wheelchairs in developing countries because they know that in that country, there are places that are not wheelchair accessible or not wheelchair friendly.
6. The local component is that the manufacturer in the developing country will make the wheelchair themselves and then give them for free to people who need a wheelchair.
7. The community owns the process by building their own wheelchairs using the design that Ralf Hotchkiss has given them. What they do with the wheelchair is also their job; it is their job to give them to people who need them.
Bianca Hsueh
Professor Sabir
English 1A 11-11:50
31 October 2012
Frontline #3
Sounds of the Earth
1. The social entrepreneur being profiled is Luis Szaràn.
2. The problem that he identified was the lack of social networks in Paraguay and that youth in Paraguay did not have an enriched art culture and good citizens.
3. The name of the organization that they started is called “Sounds of the Earth”.
4. The relationship to the community that they serve is forged through music schools that are built for children to learn how to play instruments and to learn how to build instruments.
5. He decided to address this issue because he wanted to create good citizens. According to Jesuit philosophy, music is a good way to create a good citizen. Also, by opening a music school, there are more chances for youth to meet more youth, which will allow them to create more social networks.
6. The local component is that the community will open a music school for the students. They will hold public concerts o display the work that the students have done. The other component is that the students will learn how to make instruments.
7. Each small community opens and runs their own music school as a way for the community to own the process. They also own the process by having concerts. Also, at the school, they will feed the children.
Makonnen Richardson
Professor Sabir
English 1A 8-8:50
Nov. 1, 2012
#1Vietnam – Wheels of Change
1. Social entrepreneur profiled is Ralph Hotchkiss, a professor at SF State
2. He identified that the standard wheelchair was nowhere near durable enough for handicap persons, more specifically for different terrain
3. The orginiztion is called “Whirlwind”, in which they design, build, and donate to third world countries, and his technologies are open source.
4. Being he is handicap himself, he is fully aware of the difficulties faced with being mobile and handicapped and used his engineering skills to help build and supply a more durable and hopeful standard for not only himself but those who’s less fortunate as well
5. Whirlwind originated in SF and has now spread to countries worldwide. They use regular and nonexpensive parts to make them more affordable and easy to repair
6. Ralf Hotchkiss started in the bay area and with the intention of making it for him, but now other locations use the same design but with different materials that are accessable to them.
#2 Delancy Street Foundation
1.social entrepreneur profiled is Mimi Silbert.
2.Silbert identified that when convicts get out of jail, because of how society is designed they seem to repeat their same ways and end back in jail again. The other problem was that ex-convicts do not know how to change or where to start, so Delancy Street helps them build their foundation.
3. The name of the organization is called Delancy Street Foundation.
4. Delancy Street serves the community in different facets. They have a moving company and a restaurant that the residents are able to work in. The profits from these businesses go right back into the program to help the residents.
5.ex-convicts do not know how to restart their lives outside of jail because their way of life is all they know, and have never been introduced to anything better. This program allows them to do something with their life and restart. A process of rehabilitation.
6. The local component is to run the business such as the moving company so that the residents are able to work in the business and gain skills, etc.
7. The community owns the process by running the businesses and employing the residents who will work there. There are moving companies, restaurants and many more across the country.
#3 Mexico – The Business of Saving Trees
1. Pati Ruiz Corzo is the entrepenure identified.
2. Human Footprint on the environment
3. Sierra Gorda Biosphere is the name of the orginization
4. Pati is very involved and passionate in what he does, trying to teach the community & showing children that outdoors is can be so much more than how its been represented
5. They wanted to change the way of living of people and preserve the forest
6. Spreading the word and being willing to do something about it
7. The community owns the process because anything benefited from the project gets reinvested
Sam Everett
Professor Sabir
ENGL 1A 8-8:50
1 November, 2012
Frontline World: Social Entrepreneur
1. Vietnam: wheels of change
The social entrepreneur is Ralph Hotchkiss, a professor of engineering who became paralyzed after a motorcycle accident. The problem faced by this entrepreneur is wheel chair accessibility in impoverished countries like Vietnam. Many times people with disabilities that limit mobility are confined to their homes because the streets do not allow movement from one place to another. The entrepreneur created the Whirlwind Wheelchair organization which set up factories all over the world to produce a more accessible wheelchair he designed called the rough rider. This organization operates for the benefit of the disabled community. This is why the chairs are made as cheaply as possible and sold locally. If people can’t afford the rough rider, western organizations can assist in the selling. This wheel chair is helpful to people all over the world, even in my community. It may be cheaper then others, but that doesn’t mean it is less helpful. The thing about the rough rider is that it is useful all over the world from the bay area, to Vietnam. The community in a way truly owns this chair because it is cheap, and modeled to best benefit the population that uses it.
2. Tibet: Eye Camp
The social entrepreneur Dr. Mark Lieberman, an American Ophthalmologist. This entrepreneur addresses the problems of cataracts in Tibet. Because Tibetans live at such a high altitude, and many of them are poor, their eyes have a high exposure to the sun.
To address this problem, doctor Lieberman has set up eye camps dedicated to helping those in Tibet who require eye surgery. The doctor has been dedicated to helping these people ever since he was inspired by the Dalai Lama. He wants the best, and most efficient treatment possible for the Tibetans, so he was angry when he learned that his facilities were being neglected when he wasn’t there. These skills Lieberman offers belong to these poor communities because he works solely for their benefits. If he was in it to make a profit, he would not operate in a poor community.
3. Nepal: A Girls Life
The social entrepreneur is American business man John Wood. When Wood went to Nepal, he noticed the intense poverty that many people faced. When visiting the schools, he realized that there wasn’t adequate materials, especially books. Along with this the Nepalese society favored boys to girls, putting women at a great educational disadvantage. In order to take action against this issue, he began the Room to Read program. This program has established 1,300 libraries, builds schools, educates children, and provides scholarships for Nepalese. Now, the program is run by the Nepalese themselves. It is operated for the benefit of, and run by the community.
Thany Ouk
Professor Sabir
English 1A 11-11:50
1 November 2012
Frontline World Assignment #1:
The Sound Of Hope
1. Luis Szaran
2. The community didn't serve much education and art culture for kids.
3. The organization is called 'Sounds of the Earth'
4. The community seems thrilled that they have orchestra provided because music is a way to connect with others. Activities also brought kids together.
5. Youth in the community was slacking off of education and the music/art was bringing the community together to create a social change.
6. The local component is trying to make a change for the better and causing it to gather the community to be a part of it.
7. Youth are being benefited with shows, food, education and relationships.
Tatiana Johnson
Professor Sabir
English 1A
1 November 2012
Frontline World
1.Who is the social entrepreneur profiled?
The social entrepreneur profiled is Luis Szaràn.
2.What problem did the person profiled identify?
The problem that he identified was the lack of social networks in the third-world communities.
3.What is the name of the organization they started?
The name of the organization that he started was called the “Sounds of the Earth”.
4.Describe their relationship to the community that they serve?
He describes music being a essential part of life so music schools were built for children who wanted to learn how to play and build musical instruments.
5.What is the local component?
The local components that the community will have are music schools and concerts for the public.
6.How does the community own the process?
The community will own the music schools and the concerts that they give.
"Paraguay: Sounds of Hope." PBS. PBS, n.d. Web. 30 Oct. 2012.
Emily Lam
Professor Wanda Sabir
English 1A 11-11:50am
29 October 2012
#1 Vietnam Wheel Chairs of Change
Quan Dien lost his legs in the war of Cambodia around early 1980s. Since Vietnam wasn’t the richest country, Dien stayed home most of the time because it wasn’t convenient for him to roam around the streets in the wheelchair that he has. Thanh who rented a place to make wheelchairs and meet up with Ralf Hotchkiss from time to time to discuss how to build a strong wheelchairs. Ralf Hotchkiss is an engineer at San Francisco State and he has wanted to design wheelchairs for the longest time. After he came up with RoughRider, they even started to donate wheelchairs to other countries that needs them as well. They’re goal was to build wheelchairs that’s less expensive to repair, strong and sturdy for the disables because the disables that lives in Vietnam doesn’t have the money to build one themselves. Therefore most people that are disable struggles to get around town. In the beginning, Dien didn’t like the idea of the new wheelchairs because he thinks the one that he’s currently suits him better, but after Ralf & Thanh showed him how much better and convenient it is than his old one, Dien started to use the RoughRider.
1. Who is the social entrepreneur profiled?
- Ralf Hotchkiss
2. What problem did the person profiled identify?
- Designed & invented the most convenient wheelchair for disabilities
3. What is the name of the organization they started?
- RoughRiders
4. Describe their relationship to the community that they serve?
- Ralf Hotchkiss & Thanh was nice enough to try & build the most convenient & affordable wheelchair to disability not just in Vietnam, but other countries as well. They both were very cooperative in working together like a team should.
5. Why they decided to address this issue?
- They decided to address this issue is to help the disables to get around easier
6. What is the local component?
- The local component Ralf Hotchkiss, Thanh, and the people from San Francisco that helped raised the money to build these wheelchairs.
7. How does the community own the process?
- The community owns the process by coming together & meeting up with a San Francisco Engineering that’s wanted to design wheelchairs, to talk & discussed how to build the new improved wheelchair.
Emily Lam
Professor Wanda Sabir
English 1A 11-11:50am
29 October 2012
# 2 Mexico: The Business of Saving Trees
Pati Ruiz Corso found out that people likes to throw their garbage into the river where there’s a lot of trees that’s around that area. If people don’t help keep their environment clean, then it’s possible that it can harm the trees. She used to be a teacher and she wanted to do something different about how people are treating their nature like trash. She started Sierra Corda Project and decided to build a community to help save the trees. Corso tried to grab people’s attention and letting them know what is going on and why is it important for them to save their trees. Everyone eventually came together by getting paid $360 to plant new trees and was given a year to turn the empty field into a forest. The reason why Corso suggested to do this is because she believes saving the trees will actually help global warming, the environment and it gives carbon dioxide for them to breathe. They even invested money to build solar cookers so that they can stop using gas to cook. The community comes together to start the process by raising thousands for dollars to make this project work. They even created a community to prevent people from leaving Sierra Gorda.
1. Who is the social entrepreneur profiled?
- Pati Ruiz Corso
2. What problem did the person profiled identify?
- People like to throw garbage into the water which destroys the trees & the nature that’s near where they live. Decided to build a community to help save trees
3. What is the name of the organization they started?
- Sierra Corda Project
4. Describe their relationship to the community that they serve?
- They all came together by getting paid $360 to plant new trees & has a year to turn the field into a forest
5. Why they decided to address this issue?
- They decided to address this issue because Pati believes that trees helps global warming and the environment and it gives carbon dioxide for us to breathe
6. What is the local component?
- The local component is that they tried to raise money so that they have enough to plant as many trees as they can on the empty field.
7. How does the community own the process?
- The community owns the process by raising thousands for dollars to do this project, creating a community to prevent people from leaving Sierra Gorda & trying to invest money to build solar cookers instead of using gas.
Emily Lam
Professor Wanda Sabir
English 1A 11-11:50am
29 October 2012
#3 India: Design Like You Give A Damn
Purnima McCucheon packed her belongings and moved to India to help rebuild their home because of the Tsunami that happened four years ago in 2004. After the tsunami happened, a lot of people didn’t know what to do or how to live with a disaster that destroyed their home. McCucheon believes that it would be nice lend a helping hand to a community that needs it and do something meaningful. When she got there, she started to draw almost over 100 sketches to help with the rebuilding. After the sketches were complete, they had a meeting with the rest of the community that lost their homes and listen to what each has to say. During the meeting, some of them felt uncomfortable how there was a little opening in front of some of the houses for people to sit. After the argument was over, they all started to agree on building a curvy wall in front of it to protect them so the waves won’t be able to come in so easily. Once everyone started to agree with each and got each other’s approval, they all came together and started to work on building the wall and rebuilding the rest of the other people’s home. San Francisco Architecture for Humanity was raising money for India in order for all this process to start. After one building was done being built, everyone was very happy that the used that special room to take night classes and even held big celebrations like weddings in that particular room. Everyone felt happy because everyone helped built all together.
1. Who is the social entrepreneur profiled?
- Purnima McCucheon discovered that 4 years ago, Tsunami came in 2004 & swept everything away
2. What is the name of the organization they started?
- The name of the organization they started was called Architecture for Humanity
3. Describe their relationship to the community that they serve?
- McCucheon moved to India to help rebuild buildings & homes that was destroyed. Drew sketches for the community as well.
4. Why they decided to address this issue?
- People didn’t know what to do & didn’t have a safe & comfortable place to live. Didn’t have much people to help build and fix such a big disaster.
5. What is the local component?
- The local component Sraya Salti who was the reporter, Architecture for Humanity, McCucheon who started the organizer and the community.
6. How does the community own the process?
- The community owns the process by having everyone coming together to have meetings to talk about the sketches. Everyone has to approve the sketches before they started to build a special wall to block the waves. San Francisco Architecture for Humanity was raising money for India in order for all this process to start.
Work Cited
"Vietnam: Wheels For Change." PBS. PBS, n.d. Web. 29 Oct. 2012.
“Mexico: The Business of Saving Trees.” PBS. PBS, n.d. Web. 29 Oct. 2012.
"India: Design Like You Give A Damn." PBS. PBS, n.d. Web. 29 Oct. 2012
Gabe Shalaby
Professor Wanda Sabir
English 1A 8:00 a.m. - 8:50 a.m.
1/11/12
Social Entrepreneur #1
1) Who is the social entrepreneur profiled?
Ralph Hotchkiss is a San Francisco local and an engineering professor at SF State University. He was paralyzed in the 1970's in a motorcycle accident and originally set out to make a better wheelchair for himself.
2)What problem did the person profiled identify?
In large bustling cities all over the globe handicap accessibility is a constant issue. In third world countries such as Vietnam less consideration is given to the mobility of disabled people, Ralph Hotchkiss set out to fix that.
3) What is the name of the organization they started?
Whirlwind Wheelchair Network.
4) Describe their relationship to the community that they serve.
The Whirlwind Wheel Chair Network not only designs chairs such as the RoughRider, but continuously works on improving their products to better fit the individuals in the disabled community. They listen to problems and concerns and try to address them. Additionally any plans and improvements to the designs they make are provided to the local companies who produce the chairs for free. Whirlwind also markets the product and fund raises in order to donate chairs to the community.
*Why they decided to address this issue.
Hotchkiss said that he would like the wheelchair industry to be revolutionized in the near future. He wants his concepts to be taken and improved on so that the world can be more accessible to those in wheel chairs.
5) What is the local component?
The companies that actually produce and distribute these chairs are local run and owned.
6)How does the community own the process?
Whirlwind only created the concept, improve on the concept, market the concept, and teach the community how to produce them. The workshops in these communities actually supply the materials, do the repairs, distribute the RoughRiders, and provide feedback to Whirlwind.
Social Entrepreneur #2
1) Who is the social entrepreneur profiled?
A Jordanian woman by the name of Soraya Salti.
2) What problem did the person profiled identify?
There's a lack of employment opportunities for young entrepreneurs just out of school in the Egyptian business market.
3) What is the name of the organization they started?
Injaz, which is a spin off of the American Junior Achievement program.
4) Describe their relationship to the community that they serve.
Injaz was created to fuel a healthy and friendly competitive environment for business students in Cairo. They put on an annual event that is a game show like competition for the most creative and likely to succeed student business. This competition is judged by local Egyptian big business Senior Executives.
* Why they decided to address this issue.
Many young people feel they've wasted their time and money on education because of the lack of opportunity on the job market. Injaz has a few goals in mind when they take this approach. They want to teach the students through experience how to use that entrepreneurship to create any type of business they want. Injaz also wants to create a window of opportunity for the winners by giving them a head start in their business venture. When they are recognized by Senior Executives of top companies in the country as a legitimate good idea that gives them credibility and a confidence boost.
5) What is the local component?
The Judges are all Senior Executives of big Egyptian business. The teams are all comprised of local Cairo students in business programs. The audience, which no doubt gets influenced by the presentations, are local Cairo residents too. Although a lot of the audience may just be relatives and well wishers, if they get moved by the presentation they can definitely help to get the student companies on their feet.
6) How does the community own this process?
It's all local run an owned there's no one else to run this project. Although the community isn't involved in picking the winners, they provide the competitors and staff.
Social Entrepreneur #3
1) Who is the social entrepreneur profiled?
American surgeon Dr. Marc Leiberman. He's a San Francisco local with a successful practice in San Francisco, California.
2.)What problem did the person profiled identify?
Tibet has the highest rate of untreated cataracts in the world and insufficient means and know how to fix it.
3) What is the name of the organization started?
If I could place a name it would be "Eye Camp" but as far as I could figure from the video there's not an official organization name.
4) Describe their relationship to the community.
Leiberman started working with Tibetan surgeons in the year 1995. He visits Tibet often to train local surgeons modern techniques of cataract correction procedures using modern equipment. In addition to helping Tibetan doctors become self sufficient in the treatment of this epidemic from which they suffer, Dr. Leiberman personally helps out with the procedures for numerous eye camps.
* Why they decided to address this issue.
Leiberman saw that Tibet had an epidemic on their hands and even though cataracts are a common disorder that is fairly simply corrected, Tibet did not have the means to deal with this problem. It seemed China offered no aid and Elite class Tibetan officials did not take matters into their own hands. Leiberman wants to see Tibet become more self sufficient in the near future.
5) What is the local component?
All of the surgeons that work on the patients are local medical professionals. Not only were they taught how to actually go on with these procedures and given equipment, but they have had so much practice that they continue to train their own doctors.
6) How does the community own the process?
The Tibetan medical community owns the process because they are the ones with the know how, equipment, and ability to train others. They now hold their own eye camps and continue to try to smother this epidemic. A lot of the local people with cataract problems are nomadic farmers and people who live off of the land. In the harsh environment which they work they get cataracts easily, which is especially problematic because this is a culture that relies on sight.
Jesse Valdez
Professor Sabir
English 1A 8-8:50
1 November 2012
Frontline World Assignment
#1 Wheels of Change
1.Who is the social entrepreneur profiled?
Ralf Hotchkiss
2.What problem did the person profiled identify?
That some places must be more accessible to people in wheelchairs.
3.What is the name of the organization they started?
RoughRider
4.Describe their relationship to the community that they serve?
These wheelchairs are meant to be more of a service than a company, since wheelchairs are expensive and cannot be afforded very easily.
• Why they decided to address this issue?
Since some people, including Hotchkiss, have wheelchairs but have trouble in certain areas that have an unstable terrain.
5.What is the local component?
Making wheelchairs that are good for rocky, non flat surfaces for people that need them, and giving them away as a kind of charity, where they are free.
6.How does the community own the process?
The community learns how to make wheelchairs similar to the RoughRider ones, using it as an example.
#2 Design Like you give a Damn
1.Who is the social entrepreneur profiled?
Purnima McCutcheon
2.What problem did the person profiled identify?
When houses are destroyed by natural causes.
3.What is the name of the organization they started?
Architecture for Humanity
4.Describe their relationship to the community that they serve?
Local workers are rebuilding the necessities, such as houses and bathrooms.
• Why they decided to address this issue?
Our of compassion for those that get their homes destroyed from natural causes such as hurrucanes.
5.What is the local component?
People who live in that area will help rebuild homes for themselves and their community using designs and equipment from Architecture for Humanity.
6.How does the community own the process?
Many of the workers for rebuilding are local.
#3 Egypt Middle East Inc.,
1.Who is the social entrepreneur profiled?
Soraya Salti
2.What problem did the person profiled identify?
That Egypt is place that does not have a large contribution to business, with its citizens having the nickname of “the Waiting Generation”.
3.What is the name of the organization they started?
Injaz
4.Describe their relationship to the community that they serve?
Will help the county’s economy.
• Why they decided to address this issue?
Since Egypt does not have many jobs, thus not having many ways for families to earn money.
5.What is the local component?
Starting a type of game show to improve business in Egypt.
6.How does the community own the process?
People in the community are the ones who participate in it.
Lhadze Bosiljevac
Mrs. Sabir
10/1/2012
8:00-8:50p.m.
English 1 A
Top 3 Social Entrepreneurs
1.Who is the social entrepreneur profiled?
Molly Snyder-Fink
2.What problem did the person profiled identify?
The issue of pregnant teenagers around the age of 19 and how track keeps girls in school and having a better life. Shelly-Ann Fraser explains being a track star and staying in school protected her.
3.What is the name of the organization they started?
They did not start a program but they put out the issue that the girls face in Jamaica.
4.Describe their relationship to the community that they serve?
Molly Snyder’s husband is a native Jamaican, and she realized the issue when she came to visit the country.
• Why they decided to address this issue?
Too many young girls are getting pregnant, and that athletics are the only way to get out of that situation.
5.What is the local component?
Not enough education, money and unplanned pregnancies. Mothers worried their child won’t make it.
6.How does the community own the process?
The mothers and girls are the ones to own the burden. But the country gives college scholarships to train while studying to help the population.
Fink, Molly S. "Jamaica: Girls On Track." Frontline World. PBS, 1 Oct. 2009. Web. 03 Nov. 2012. .
1.Who is the social entrepreneur profiled?
MIMI CHAKAROVA
2.What problem did the person profiled identify?
Prostitution and young girls being sex trafficked in Europe and all over the world.
3.What is the name of the organization they started?
There again, is no organization but she is hoping her photography changes the way the world see’s women and what they endure.
4.Describe their relationship to the community that they serve?
She decided in a trip to Europe she needed to photograph and show the world.
• Why they decided to address this issue?
It is getting out of hand and they force sex among even the pregnant women, they don’t get proper medical care, and they live with what they owned and get nothing new.
5.What is the local component?
People don’t really want to address it and it is well hidden.
6.How does the community own the process?
The people don’t step up, and only make it worse because they shy away and don’t talk about it. Also stigmitisim is why women don’t want to talk about what happened.
Chakarova, Mimi. "SLIDESHOW I BACKGROUND I INTERVIEW I REACTION I CREDITS I flashPOINT." PBS. PBS, 2002-2011. Web. 03 Nov. 2012. .
1.Who is the social entrepreneur profiled?
Jason Cohn
2.What problem did the person profiled identify?
The issue of how hard it is to make a living in Japan as a farmer.
3.What is the name of the organization they started?
No organization, but they write reports and show the world the loss of the farming industry.
4.Describe their relationship to the community that they serve?
Jason lived in Japan after moving from the U.S and speaks the language and has friends there.
• Why they decided to address this issue?
The idea of bright lights and cities has drowned out the rural population.
5.What is the local component?
The people asking for more help.
6.How does the community own the process?
The country is so focused on industrializing the main crop growers are forgotten so they have less and less credit and their losing land. With this, food prices tend to go up.
Cohn, Jason. "Japan: The Slow Life." PBS. PBS, 22 Nov. 2005. Web. 03 Nov. 2012. .
Jeannae Williams
English 1A 8-8:50am
1 Novenber 2012
Frontline World Response
1. Who is the social Entrepreneur profiled?
Ralf Hotchkiss is the entrepreneur being profiled who is a professor at SFU.
2. What problem did the person profiled identify?
The problem identified was how unsteady wheelchairs are and how he is going to create a wheelchair for his own use, but ended up making the RoughRider wheelchair for the use of people who need a chair that's comfortable, bot blocking arm movement, sturdy and stable.
3. What is the name of the organization they started?
The name of the organization that's been started is called the RoughRider along with Ralph Hotchkiss associate Marc Krizack.
4. Describe their relationship to the community that they serve?
The relationship with the community that they serve is helping raise monry from western foundations to help the $175 cost of the chair of these who are ineed of the merchandise as well as donating the RoughRider to those most in need.
* Why they decided to address the issue.
To make it more comfortable for those who do have wheel chairs to get to their destination as sturdy as possible witout sidewalks and curves being an issue of a wheel chair recieption.
4. What is the local componet?
The local facotory that have free access to Ralph's technology to manufacture wheelchairs.
6. How does the community own the process?
Advertising to present the RoughRider wheel chair.
"Vietnam: Wheels For Change". PBS, n.d. Web.30 Oct.2012.
1. Who is the social entrepreneur profiled?
John Nevado is the entreprenuer being profiled.
2. What problem did the person profiled identify?
How flowers in Ecuador's Andean Countryside bring over 350 million$ in revenue. Nasty reputation for labor and enviornment abuses. And if their is an alternative.
3. What is the name of the organization they started?
Fair Trade Movement (rose farm)
4. Describe their relationship to the community that they serve?
The relationship to the community that they serve is to create a more green-conscious and to help improve worker's rights in the industry.
* whay they decided to adress the issue?
Because it's notorious for dangerous pesticides, poor labor practices and corrupt managment.
5. What is the local component?
Big companies getting behind the notion of free trade. Sam club; who agreed to sell fair-trade-certified flowers.
6. How does the community own the process?
By fair trading.
"Flower Power." PBS, n.d. web. 28 Oct. 2012.
1. Who is the social Entreprenuer profiled?
Sraya Salti.
2. What problem did the person profiled identify?
How the problem of unemployment in Egypt wher students who do get degrees do not have a job. In egypt their is a five year wait to receive a decent job.
3. What is the name of the organization they started?
INJAZ, which ia a non profit organization that is a spin from the American Program Juninior Achievment.
4. Descibe their relationshiop to the community that they deserve?
Between the community and INJAZ is that it made them work for themselves by creating a competition that made them create new things.
* Sraya adresses the issue because she took notice of how the youth worked hard to recieve degrees and don't get the proper jobs that they deserve.
5. What is the local component?
The INJAZ organization and the students who try their best to win.
6.How does the community own the process?
By college students involve in the process of fighting for proper job placing.
"Egypt: Middle East". PBS, n.d. Web. 30 Oct.2012.
Jonas Sota
Professor Sabir
English 11-11:50
30 October 2012
Vietnam: Wheels of Change
1.Who is the social entrepreneur profiled?
Ralf Hotchkiss
2.What problem did the person profiled identify?
Wheelchair mobility, focusing attention on 3rd world countries w/ poorer road conditions & lack of accommodation for wheelchairs.
3.What is the name of the organization they started?
Whirlwind
4.Describe their relationship to the community that they serve?
They produce open source designs and raise money to subsidize the cost of the wheelchair in order to provide the community of disabled persons (in Vietnam in this case).
• Why they decided to address this issue?
Hotchkiss decided to address the issue because he himself is wheelchair ridden.
5.What is the local component?
Mr. Toan rough rider chairs in Vietnam using local resources & employment
6.How does the community own the process?
The chairs are produced locally in relation to the users/customers
India: "Design Like You Give a Damn"
1.Who is the social entrepreneur profiled?
Cameron Sinclair, Kate Stohr, 'Petrina Mccuchin'
2.What problem did the person profiled identify?
The decimation of villages from world disasters - thousands of villagers lost their homes
3.What is the name of the organization they started?
Architecture for Humanity
The decimation of villages from world disasters - thousands of villagers lost their homes
4.Describe their relationship to the community that they serve?
Architects from around the world contribute building plans for the decimated communities. The buildings are oftentimes constructed by the locals which generates revenue for the community and as well as a sense of ownership [of the building].
• Why they decided to address this issue?
Sympathy for those who lost their homes by decimation of their villages from world disasters - thousands of villagers lost their homes
If you think about it, the loss of your home would be devastating to say the least.
5.What is the local component?
The buildings are built by locals and are built to serve the locals as a place for the community to gather.
6.How does the community own the process?
The buildings are made by the community and used by the community. They may also have an affect on the design of the building.
Egypt: Middle East, Inc.
1.Who is the social entrepreneur profiled?
Sarai Asalti
2.What problem did the person profiled identify?
High unemployment of young adults in Egypt, including university graduates.
3.What is the name of the organization they started?
Injaz
4.Describe their relationship to the community that they serve?
Essentially Injaz trains and vitalizes young aspiring professionals. Their relationship to the general community is perhaps nonexistent while they are a present and hopeful force for those that they interact with.
• Why they decided to address this issue?
Sarai and her colleagues anticipate a bubble or surge of unsatisfied, deprived, and unemployed young adults.
5.What is the local component?
Local startup companies receive training, mentoring, and attention from investors.
6.How does the community own the process?
The training and mentoring is investment in the community in the form of young entrepreneurs who will hopefully create their own business and generate revenue for their local communities.
Kendra Jones
Professor Sabir
English 1A 8:00-8:50 AM
1 November 2012
Frontline World Responses
#1 Vietnam: Wheels of Change
Ralf Hotchkiss is the Social Entrepreneur who is profiled, an engineering professor at San Francisco State University.He created a wheelchair and named it the "Rough Rider" in hopes that it worked well enough in all of the difficult situations in developing countries unlike the normal hospital chair. The name of the organization was "Whirlwind Wheelchair International". Both Ralf and the people in need are disabled and would benefit from a better wheelchair, that would help when traveling long distances, over rocky, sandy or muddy roads. The wheelchair is made from locally available materials and the labor is inexpensive. The wheelchair is transported from Ralf's factory to local factories.
#2 Rwanda: Millennium Village
Jeffrey Sachs came up with a plan to reduce poverty in Africa. His organization is named "Millennium Villages Project". Jefferey believes that if you apply science and technology to agriculture, health, education and infrastructure, extreme poverty can be eliminated or at least reduced. Funds are used to tackle one issue at a time. The final test will come when all the metrics are gathered at the end of the five years.
#3 Mimi Silbert, Delancy Street Foundation
Mimi Selbert is the Social Entrepreneur profiled. Her focus is on rehabilitation for drug addicts, criminals and the homeless. The program is called the "Delancy Street Foundation". The program is named after the street where Silbert grew up. Like her parents, immigrants came there to start a new life for themselves. The foundation runs at no cost to the taxpayer or client, thanks to their successful businesses. Each criminal spends up to four years at the facility and must pass an exam in order to receive their high school diploma along with a job lined up and a place to stay.
"Vietnam: Wheels For Change." PBS. PBS, n.d. Web. 1 Nov. 2012.
"Rwanda: Millennium Village." PBS. PBS, n.d. Web. 1 Nov. 2012.
"San Francisco: Delancy Street Foundation." PBS. PBS, n.d. Web 1 Nov. 2012
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