Frontline World: Engaged Citizenry Cyber-Assignment
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 April 8-17. Post your Frontline World Responses (3) on the blog. Bring in headphones for the computer.
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 April 8-17. Post your Frontline World Responses (3) on the blog. Bring in headphones for the computer.
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?
posted by Professor Wanda's Posse at 1:53 PM
11 Comments:
Kailash Sathyarti is focusing his spirit and abilities in life on helping those who are in a place that no one should ever have to be put in. He frees slaves in India. There are unfortunate people who are starving and he helps free them by raiding compounds that are overlooked by dangerous people. Risking his life he is attempting to give to those who are without a freedom. Kailash with his group SACC saves families men,women, and children from work bondage.this is an illegal practice that is overlooked by many governments in india and around the world.
Kailash started seeing atabout 12 years of age how easy it would be possible for him to make a difference in the disparities between the castes. He has made a big difference in many lives saving children and their families taking the kids to bal Ashram where they are kept for 6 months to be rehabilitated from their attrocities they have experienced.
Kailash's claim that freedom rests upon the questionable assumption that politics govern the people, but the Indian Mafia has a hand in politician's pockets and vice-versa.
Kailash's theory of reintroducing children is extremely useful because it sheds light on the difficult problem of traumatic experience.
Though I conce3d that Kailash has a very great blessing from the Great Spirit, I still insist that we all need encouragement of this kind from similar entities.
Amit Dhingra
Professor Sabir
English 1A 1-2:50pm
14 April 2013
Social Entrepreneur Response
1. Marc Lieberman is a social entrepreneur that wanted to fix the cataract disease for the people in Tibet. He is a eye surgeon who thought Tibet doctors how to preform this modern eye surgery. The community owns the process because he taught the doctors in Tibet on how to do these surgeries. Success was measured when people who had been blind could now see.
2. John Nevado is a social entrepreneur that owns a family business of roses. He addresses the labor problems in Ecuador. The business name is Nevado Roses. They want to help people in third world countries to have jobs. Success is measured by the amount of people that have jobs.
3. Kate Stohr is a co-founder of Architecture For Humanity. They address the problem of building some buildings in India due to the tsunami. They design architecture so they could build community centers for the people. Purnima McCutcheon was the lead designer that moved to India to design this building. The community is hired to actually build the design so there is income flowing into the community. All the successful buildings and designs that are incorporated in the communities measure the success.
Ravi Thapaliya
Professor Sabir
English 1A 9-9:50 AM
16 April 2013
Social Entrepreneurs
1. Feliciano Dos Santos is a native of Niassa, Mozambique. He initiated a much needed action in his village. He started to use music, singing songs for sanitation, aids etc. He opened a band with his friends called Massukos. He wants to see the people in that area be sanitized and aware. Santos himself is a victim of polio and does not want lack of latrines doing the same damage to others. He raises money to build latrines for people in need.
2. John wood visited Southeast Asian country Nepal for the first time in 1998 taking a break from high demand work at microsoft. In his visit he admired the beauty of nepal. Wood also came into contact with the dark sides of nepal. He found mass illiteracy in the place. In one case, he found a school library with just couple of books brought by the tourists. When he inquired why was there so less books, the staff answered if he could bring some books for the library, and that changed his world. The next time he got plenty of books to the place in donkeys and gave away the books. Children were anxious to see books and take away the contents in books. Wood then established an organization called ' Room to Read' where he started making libraries, stocking them and later felt the need to build whole schools. His organization has started a lot of schools since then and left the community and the children there at awe.
3. Ralf Hotchkiss is an engineer in San Francisco State University. He has started a new wheelchair which can take on rough rides. The design ' Rough rider' is a chair designed to be safe, reliable and for the most part strong. After being paralyzed himself after an accident 30 years ago, he felt that the wheelchairs in the market were too weary for the needed around the world. In some parts of the world, the chair has to go through trying roads and needs to be strong. He wanted the chair to be effective for everybody and everywhere.
Princess Espinosa
Professor Wanda
English1A 9-950am
16 April 2013
Frontline World Cyber Assignment
Social Entrepreneurs
1.) India: A New Life- Getting Children off the Streets
By Gita Pullapilly
The social entrepreneur profiled is father Thomas Koshy- a preacher in India who helps street kids. The problem Koshy identifies is the children’s street addiction and how to save them. The organization he started with others is called “ Navajeevan Bala Bhavan” in other words, Center for street children to start a new life. Koshy and the help of psychologist Anu Dasaka and his frontline social entrepreneur educator workers help the street kids by giving them shelter, educating them, making them feel safe and comfortable and motivating them to do better. Koshy was like a father to them, and Anu was like a mother. The educators/mentors were like older brothers. They decided to address this issue because children should not be sleeping under bridges, losing parts of their bodies, hanging out by train trails, trafficking, doing drugs etc. The community owns this process by Koshy giving the former street kids 6 months to mentor and help the kids who are currently suffering. Success is still in the process. Even when kids leave, they don’t give up on them. They always welcome them back and give them many chances to settle. The evaluative tools would be giving the children shelter, education, childhood life, and a safe environment.
2.) Nepal: A Girls life
Reported by Sachi Cunningham
Social Entrepreneur profiled is John Wood. The problem he identified was the lack of education and opportunities the children had in Nepal. The organization he started is called “Room to read”. The community engaged in his projects, and they also helped build schools and became part of his organizations. Wood also built a strong relationship with the children. They decided to address this issue, so they could encourage literacy throughout the world and end the expansion of women not having education opportunities. The community helped one another to make it happen in Nepal. John wood’s successful programs brought many people together to help organize fundraisers and collected donations. The many participants from the community and society around the world helped bring Room to read to success.
3.) South Africa: The Play Pump
Reporter Amy Costelllo.
Social Entrepreneur profiled is Trevor Field. The problem identified was the lack of clean and safe drinking water in South Africa. He organized and invented “The Play Pump”. He helps end stressed-water in the villages, women traveling and carrying water back home after tiring work from pumping dirty water. The Play Pump was his idea for the children to have fun and at the same time pump fresh clean water. They decided to address this issue so the people from Africa will not have to drink contaminated water and get sick from it. The community helps by giving their children time to play on the play pumps. Many people around the world recognize Fields success such as the First Lady Clinton who donates 16.4 million dollars. Also, celebrities like Jay-z raised 400,000 dollars from his “Water for life” Concert/Fundraiser.
Amanda Wright
Professor Wanda Sabir
English 1A 4-5:50
17 April 2013
Frontline World
1. Dr. Edgar Rodas former minister of health for Ecuador founded Cinterandas Foundation in 1995. He was discontented with the insufficiency of health services in Ecuador for the poor people. The Cinterandas Foundation provides free health care for the poor people and doctors make house visits to the hard to reach rural areas in the amazon jungle. Each doctor is assigned to families in different areas in Ecuador. To earn the peoples trust the doctors work with local healers which some of the people are familiar with traditional medicine. The foundation also has medically equipped trucks and a hospital boat where they treat and perform surgeries. From 1995 to 2007 the foundation has provided more than 50,000 people and performed about 5,200 surgeries. Dr. Rodas is determined to expand.
2. John Woods while working at microsoft found himself overworked and tired so in 1998 he took a trip to Nepal. His first impression of Nepal was its beauty but then noticed the poverty. On his trip he visited a school in the mountains and was captured by the emptiness of books in the library. Woods points this out to the headmaster and she responded, "Perhaps, you will someday come back with books" (Frontline World). This stayed with him and Woods later returned with eight donkeys loaded with books. This was the start of the Room to Read program. Room to Read has made more than 1,300 libraries and is still expanding. Books were only the start, Room to Read now builds schools, publishes children's books, started literacy workshops and offers scholarships. In addition, created jobs for the Nepalese.
3. Father Thomas Koshy was approached by the mayor of Vijayawada in 1989 to start a homeless shelter. In Vijayawada, India there is a large number of homeless children living on the every corner in the city. Father Koshy points out that it takes about a month for children to get addicted to hustling and the freedom they get living on the streets. All the homeless children create a strong bond with each other. The homeless children steal rags and collect recycling to make money. Once they make enough money they buy food or cheap drugs. Father Koshy makes the New Life shelters for homeless children in India. By creating these shelters, the children are given a chance to have a better life. By giving the children a home and guidance later as children grew older obtained jobs and were able to have a better living.
Hannah Slicton-Williams
English 1A Mon-Thur 9-9:50
New Heroes (I had posted this last week but it seemed to not have saved, here it is again)
Inderji Khurana was a school teacher saddened by the sight of all the begging children at the train station she knew would never have the option of going to school. She began the Ruchik School Social Service Organization. The community supported these children in getting out of child labor and supporting their education. This produced more well rounded children in the community and when the parents would send the kids out to beg, they would get gathered to these schools and taught basic skills.
Dr. Govindappa Venkataswamy watched as poor Indian people would go blind by untreated cataract because they could not afford the surgeries to correct it. Dr. V began offering cheaper surgeries to people in the community. David Green was inspired by the idea that people would give and work hard for the benefit of others and proposed that they start a lens factory and make the lenses themselves cheaper. This gave way to the Aravind Eye Hospital and Aurolab. The project spread to 120 more countries and improved the overall health of these societies.
As a industrial engineer student, Albina Ruiz noticed the poorly managed waste in Peru. This issue was leading to not only unsightly living areas but health issues as well. Ruiz selected small business people to process waste and called it Ciudad Saludable. The waste processes had a small monthly fee of about $1.50 which was affordable to most people especially under such dire conditions. If that was not enough, they also offered care packages as a sort of incentive to take care of waste.
Joshua Harvey
Professor Wanda Sabir
English 1A Mon. & Weds. 4-5:50 pm
14 April 2013
Frontline World: Engaged Citizenry Cyber- Assignment
Outline:
1. Who is the social entrepreneur profiled?
A man named Edwin Sabuhoro who worked in the tourist business in Rwanda Africa.
2. What problem did the person profiled identify?
Gorillas were being stolen from the touring areas by people who lived in the community that were starving and poor and would eat the gorilla meats and make salt and soap from the remains and sell it as a means of income.
3. What is the name of the organization/business they started?
Edwin Sabuhoro and the villagers started an organization together called Iby'iwacu Cultural Village.
4. Describe his or her relationship to the community served?
He gave his savings to the community so they can grow food instead of risking their life Poaching gorillas. He helped the community sustain themselves through economics sustainability and growth, without risking their life’s Poaching. He created his own touring organization with the villagers, where tourists pay to come and experience the villager’s culture.
5. Why did they decide to address the issue?
He cared about the community and knew why some of the people would risk their life poaching the gorillas and felt guilty when he was in the comfort of his home and had food to eat and fluid to drink and his villagers didn’t.
6. What is the local component, that is, how does the community own the process?
The villiger’s and Edwin Sabuhoro owns the organization absent of the government.
7. How is success measured?
The gorillas are not being targeted as a source of food and income but are being preserved in the regions.
8. What are the evaluative tools?
Their crops from the currency they bring in from their tourists business and Edwin Sabuhoro own up incoming touring business of the gorillas in their habitat.
Emily Walters
Professor Sabir
English 1A 1-2:50pm
17 April 2013
Frontline World: Engaged Citizenry Cyber Assignment
First Video: Rwanda: Millennium Village
1. The social entrepreneur profiled is Jeffery Sachs.
2. The problem that Jeffery addressed was that extreme poverty could be turned around with the help of modernizing the agriculture, education and health in the village.
3. The name of the organization that was started is the Millennium Village Project.
4. Jeffery works with the community to help improve their agriculture by bringing in specialized people to examine the area and also connects by saving lives from the horrible disease, Malaria. He decided to address this issue because so many people were dying.
5. The local component is that they were together with Sachs to help improve the area of the village by planting trees for crop and by opening up a clinic for the community.
6. Success is measured by the reduction of Malaria over a 5-year span and in some cases it is almost not heard of anymore.
7. I think the evaluative tools were the nets that were given to protect from Malaria, the crops given, and the healthcare given.
Second Video: Mexico: The Business of Saving Trees
1. The social entrepreneur profiled is Pati Ruiz Corso.
2. The problem that Pati addressed was that people were throwing garbage into the river in the Biosphere and there was not vegetation; she wanted to change that.
3. The name of the organization that was started is the Sierra Gorda Biosphere Reserve in five hours north of Mexico City.
4. Patti works with the community to help improve the vegetation and to create a new life for the people. She wanted to be herself and that was leaving the business of the city life and moving to the forest. She decided to address this issue because she is commitment to the environment. She also found herself through the process.
5. The local component is that the locals join her in improving this area by protecting the trees that are already established and by planting new trees as well. She made a livelihood for the community. Community is behind her by agreeing to the education behind the trees.
6. Success is measured by a whole new landscape. She has raised $1000’s for different companies across the world and hopes too soon sell the carbon of the trees in Mexico. Created lots of jobs, many are staying in the Biosphere!
7. I think the evaluative tools are the trees being planted, new cookers for food, and attraction of the Biosphere for tourist. People now have Hope!
Third Video: Paraguay: Sounds of Hope
1. The social entrepreneur profiled is Luis Szaran.
2. The problem that Luis addressed in Paraguay was that he wanted to share his passion of Music with the unprivileged that had only dreamed of it. Hw wanted to share this passion with as many kids as he could. Wanted to give a new live to these kids through Music
3. The name of the school that he started is Sonidos de la Tierra meaning, Sounds of the Earth.
4. Luis works with the community by teaching them music and making their dreams come true. He opens up his school to the community around with free music lessons. He wanted to share his passion with others.
5. The local component is that communities are working together and becoming organized through music. The kids are just thrilled to work with him and play music. Should have seen their faces on the video.
6. Success is measured by the many lives changed in the community. Music has changed many children’s lives. Continued to spread his schools across Paraguay.
7. The evaluative tools I believe that are here is the music talent from Luis and the instruments given.
Brendan Gaines
Professor Wanda Sabir
English 1A 4-5:50
Hero Profiles
Dina Abdel Wahab is the mother of Ali, and Ali has Downs’s syndrome. Because they live in Egypt, Ali had very little chance of going to preschool and therefor has very little chance of getting the interaction that all kids need. Because of the courage of his mother Ali was the first student at The Baby Academy. Wahab founded this program for children like her own to get the interaction and care they need.
While I agree of the importance of a program like this and they say that they want to work with the government to make it more affordable, what about normal kids. The profile states that less than 4 kids in Egypt go to pre-school. Wahab’s story is not only great because of the lives the families that take part in her program but it also brings light to the fact that Egypt’s government is vastly incompetent. Less education for the people of there country will only help to perpetuate the continuing struggle with corruption and poverty in Egypt.
I think that this program is nice, but more change is needed. Is there a shortage of people like Dina? Perhaps, but until the people of Egypt can come together to demand what they want they wont be getting anywhere fast.
Spencer Stevens
Professor Wanda Sabir
English 1A 4-5:50
Frontline World
The Millennium Project
1. The Social Entrepreneur profiled is named Jeremy Sach. Sach's Program is called The Millennium Villages Project. Sach's vision is to put an end to all extreme poverty in Rwanda. He has his bachelors degree in social economics, obtained from Colombia University. He believes that all it takes for a country to end extreme poverty is five years. The problem that Sach identified was that, Rwanda was a victim of masacre which has until now left the country damaged emotionally, physically, and mentally. He also noticed the Death rates for people dying from diseases such as Malaria, Hiv, etc. Sach also noticed that one problem for Rwanda was that their agriculture was hurting them more than helping them, and therefore he helped them properly learn to grow fruits and vegetables, with proper soil.
2. Mexico The Business of saving trees:
Pati Ruiz Corzo, is an ex-school teacher, and director of Sierra Gorda Biosphere Reserve. She had became tired with the states shallow views of success. She moved to Mexico, where she was in charge of Carbon Production. When she arrived she realized that the Sierra Gorda suffered from a loss of jobs. By creating her entrepreneur project she was able to bring prosperity to her small town. She educates the people of the Sierra Gorda on the importance of clean air. She also explains how cars, gas, etc, are polluting the air. The people have built great trust with her.
3. Tibet: Eye Camp
In Tibet Many of the Natives suffer from Cataracts. It has been looked at as a disease that plagues the people of Tibet. In 1995, an Opthamologist by the name of Dr. Liberman decided to travel to Tibet to start his mobile eye camps. Dr. Liberman often finds himself under tough restrictions because of tension with the Chinese rule over Tibet. Liberman helped changed the lives of many poor, under privileged Tibeten people. The Chinese Government eventually allowed Liberman to give the Tibeten treatments.
Joshua Harvey
Professor Wanda Sabir
English 1A Mon. & Weds. 4-5:50 pm
14 April 2013
Frontline World: Engaged Citizenry Cyber- Assignment
Outline:
1. Who is the social entrepreneur profiled?
A man named Trevor Field that worked as an advertising executive before he retired.
2. What problem did the person profiled identify?
The females of the household had to deal with the toiling task of collecting water from unclean hand-pumps that would leak and take it back to their domain walking long distance through terrain carrying 40 lbs. of water in buckets.
3. What is the name of the organization/business they started?
The Play Pump.
4. Describe his or her relationship to the community served?
He wanted to give something back to the community when he retired from the success he had from being an advertising executive.
5. Why did they decide to address the issue?
He wanted to give back to the community and cared about the people wellbeing in it.
6. What is the local component, that is, how does the community own the process?
It is not community own but is community operated by the kids playing on the merry go round pump while water is being transported to convenient location for people to have easy access to it.
7. How is success measured?
Trevor Field has its own manufacturing plant where the play pumps are being made, he triple the size of his staff, the U.S government donated 16.4 million, the Steve & Gene Case Foundation, and Rapper Jay Z raised 400,000 for the play pump system. His goal is to put 1000 play pump system in each county.
8. What are the evaluative tools?
The Merry go round play pump, kids in the area, the manufacturing plant.
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