The New Heroes
Today in class we are looking at one of the persons profiled in the New Heroes series, Kailash Satyarthi, http://www.pbs.org/opb/thenewheroes/meet/satyarthi.html or or Maria Teresa Leal, http://www.pbs.org/opb/thenewheroes/meet/leal.html
We reviewed the questions posted students are to answer in the Frontline World assignment. I also gave students a paper copy. If you did not get a copy, ask me for one.
In a freewrite students were asked to respond to the program using the They Say templates (min. 3) from "Chapter Four: Yes, No Okay, But" (55) in a three paragraph essay with citations.
Homework for the 9-9:50 a.m. class:
Bring three (3) copies of your essay to class. Please also bring They Say. We are not finished with the book.
Review chapter 4 (55) and 5 (68). Read Chapter Six: "Skeptics May Object" (78).
Weekend homework for all classes:
1. Read They Say Chapter Six "Skeptics May Object" (78).
2. In the same chapter in They Say, page 91 (or 2:91), use THP essay to respond to the questions. Bring in your response to share. Bring in a highlighter pen and 1 copy of your essay. Make sure you include the works cited and bibliography if there was one. Do not include the outline or IPS.
Next week and the following weeks we will continue in They Say with Seven: "So What Who Cares?" (92). Homework for Tuesday/Wednesday, April 16-17 for all classes is 1:100.
We will continue with THP essays for 2:101 (in class). Keep bringing copies of your papers to class for the rest of the semester, along with They Say, Hacker and your dictionary.
Towards the end of the month, we will review transitions They Say, Eight: "As a Result" (103). Students will use the books they are reading to respond to the questions raised by Graff and Birkenstein. Keep your freewrites for inclusion in the Book Report Essay Portfolio.
We reviewed the questions posted students are to answer in the Frontline World assignment. I also gave students a paper copy. If you did not get a copy, ask me for one.
In a freewrite students were asked to respond to the program using the They Say templates (min. 3) from "Chapter Four: Yes, No Okay, But" (55) in a three paragraph essay with citations.
Homework for the 9-9:50 a.m. class:
Bring three (3) copies of your essay to class. Please also bring They Say. We are not finished with the book.
Review chapter 4 (55) and 5 (68). Read Chapter Six: "Skeptics May Object" (78).
Weekend homework for all classes:
1. Read They Say Chapter Six "Skeptics May Object" (78).
2. In the same chapter in They Say, page 91 (or 2:91), use THP essay to respond to the questions. Bring in your response to share. Bring in a highlighter pen and 1 copy of your essay. Make sure you include the works cited and bibliography if there was one. Do not include the outline or IPS.
Next week and the following weeks we will continue in They Say with Seven: "So What Who Cares?" (92). Homework for Tuesday/Wednesday, April 16-17 for all classes is 1:100.
We will continue with THP essays for 2:101 (in class). Keep bringing copies of your papers to class for the rest of the semester, along with They Say, Hacker and your dictionary.
Towards the end of the month, we will review transitions They Say, Eight: "As a Result" (103). Students will use the books they are reading to respond to the questions raised by Graff and Birkenstein. Keep your freewrites for inclusion in the Book Report Essay Portfolio.
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Alex Noble
Eng1a 9-9:50
Professor Sabir
10 April 2013
Kailash Satyarthi Freewrite
By focusing on freeing child slaves in India, Satyarthi overlooks the deeper problem of slavery as a whole, worldwide.
Satyarthi’s theory that freeing a child slave is useless if they do not have opportunities is extremely useful because it sheds light on the difficult problem of lack of opportunities for young people in India. (pbs.org)
Though I concede that slavery is a major problem in India, I still insist that the gangs running the operations should be pursued by the government.
Works Cited
"Meet the New Heroes: Kailash Satyarthi." The New Heroes. PBS, 2005. Web. 10 Apr. 2013.
Brendan Gaines
Professor Sabir
English 1A
11 April 2013
One of the heroes profiled by PBS is a woman by the name of Albina Ruiz. Albina lives in Peru and has found a way to effect change in her society. Ruiz is an industrial engineer, and through her studies she thought of a way to bring affordable waste management solutions to the communities in her country. Her project is called Ciudad Saludable, and its mission is to establish community managed waste collection systems in the poorest of Peruvian communities.
In her profile, Ruiz states that at least 75% of the garbage in Peru is mismanaged or improperly disposed of. The main issue that concerns people like Ruiz is the serious health problems that can result from this. In El Cono Norte, 1.6 million people produce about 600 metric tons of garbage every day. Because the government cannot keep up people, dump there trash anywhere and everywhere. PBS’s profile depicted people digging through the trash to try to find things of value because of the extreme poverty there. While I was previously unaware of this situation, I completely agree with Ruiz that this project will improve the overall quality of life of the people of Peru. Even kids were digging through the trash, many of the people with no shoes or protection like gloves or masks. It is good to see people like Ruiz who care enough to do something to help her community.
Ruiz has been doing this for 20 years now. Her project sets the cost of waste management at $1.50 a month. Ruiz works with local business owners to help cover the cost for as little as 20 cents a month. Providing clean areas for people to work and live in will ultimately lead to a healthier, and prosperous community. Although Peru is a relatively poor country, they are doing something right because Ruiz is using her education to reinvest in the infrastructure of Peru. This takes effort though, in her interview with PBS Ruiz talks about the need for the people of Peru to be the change. She says instead of waiting for foreign aid and asking what the government will do to help them, people need to work together in their community to make things better for them selves.
Harold Pedroso
English 1A
4/12/2013
Social Entrepreneur
Albina Ruiz realized the problem of garbage disposal in Peru when she was a student studying industrial engineering. After she wrote her thesis, she came up with an idea for a new community-managed system of waste collection that she hoped would serve as a model for urban and rural communities around Peru and South America.
Albina Ruiz theory of recycling is extremely helpful because it shed light on the difficult problem of garbage disposal. One of the neighborhoods she first visited was El Cono Norte in Lima, where 1.6 million people produced about 600 metric tons of garbage daily. The municipal authorities were only able to process about half of the community trash. People tossed the rest in streets, rivers and vacant lots, causing serious health problems as well as creating a perpetually ugly environment that many residents found dispiriting. Albina Ruiz went to meet with a woman who worked in the recollection of the garbage, and she saw that her daughter was four years old, but she look like a two year old. She compared her to her son that is the same age, but he looks big and strong. Therefore, she thinks that this is all related to the serious health problems cause by the garbage and something needed to be done.
I agree with Albina Ruiz that something needs to be done about the problem of garbage disposal because people tend to throw garbage everywhere and they contaminated the Lakes, river and environment in general. “The garbage crisis arose partly because the municipalities failed to collect the funds necessary to maintain the infrastructure. Because the system wasn’t working, people didn’t pay their monthly fees, making the garbage problem even worse. Ruiz set out to break the cycle.” (The new Heroes 1) Also, the government sometimes don’t set up a system of garbage renewal or recycle and this can be a problem. In addition, they don’t go to collect the garbage from the people. Nonetheless, Albina created a system of pick up garbage’s cars that go around the community and pick up the garbage from the people for free. What they do with this garbage is that they used for fertilizer for the ground and they grow products like cucumbers, watermelons, tomatoes, pumpkins and many others produce.
Ruiz started doing the work alone nearly 20 years ago. She now oversees project in 20 cities across Peru, employs more than 150 people and serves over 3 million residents. Her approach to waste management is so successful that she has been asked to come up with a national plan for Peru, while other Latin American countries have expressed interest in emulating her method. Because high unemployment was also another problem created with the garbage, the projects “Ciudad Saludable” she employed a lot of people that were unemployed before. Her micro-enterprise model provides self-employment opportunities to local residents in neighborhoods were unemployment is high. The businesses are often run by women who go door to door collecting garbage and fees, and educating people about respecting and protecting their environment. Some women have even built profitable businesses by creating products like organic fertilizer out the trash they collect.
Israel Iniguez
English 1A 9-9:50
Professor Wanda Sabir
April 10, 2013
Kailash Satyarthi was involved with enslaved children in New Delhi, India. Many of these children worked under to corrupt businesses and government. He started by inducing raids within factories where these enslaved families worked. He’d rather have children in school learning and having a chance to be a success rather than depriving them of their basic human rights. Kailash's theory of freeing and rehabilitating these children from being bonded workers is extremely important because it sheds light on the difficult problem of modern slavery. His work with Global March Against Child Labor has liberated nearly 40,000 bonded laborers.Though I concede that doing this is for the greater good, I still insist that he reaches out more to the government rather than risking his life all of the time. Upon further reading I learned that Kailash has begun a program called "Bal Mitra Gram", which encourages the Indian villages to abolish child labor. This is a great start to get word around the community,
it's just a matter of whether or not the villages and the community will stand behind the idea.
I find his passion very inspiring, especially when he does it with the knowledge that his life and many of the slaves’ lives are in greater danger during the process of escape. I wonder what would happen to those who have stayed back in the village while most of the other left with Kailash to freedom. What would have happened if the truck had never showed up that day? Only a few would have escaped in his car so that would mean the ones who would have been left behind could have gotten severe punishments by the goons who enslaved them. I hope he at least leaves food for the ones that are left behind to give them at least a bit of help.
The welcoming ceremony that took place when the newly freed slaves arrived was very heartwarming. It must have been a pleasure to see so many happy faces an greeted with so much food, music and hope for a better future. As soon as they get there children are being schooled and taught how to read and write while the much older are taught skill sets that can help them with earning money for themselves and make a living. The most memorable part of this video for me had to be the feast they freed slaves were given. Starvation is a serious problem and I can only imagine the satisfaction and happiness going through their bodies when they take each bite.
Joshua Harvey
Professor Wanda Sabir
English 1A Mon. & Weds. 4-5:50 pm
9 April 2013
Frontline World: Engaged Citizenry Cyber- Assignment
Outline:
1. Who is the social entrepreneur profiled?
A man named Bart Weetjens that started training rats to sniff out landmines in Tanzania, Mozambique, and surrounding areas.
2. What problem did the person profiled identify?
There are more land mines in Tanzania than in any other place in the world where these mines go off when people step on them unknowingly and are disfigured and killed from the blast of the mines.
3. What is the name of the organization/business they started?
Hero Rats.
4. Describe his or her relationship to the community served?
He grew up in Belgium but has a training facility in Tanzania where he and his wife and team of people been training the rats for the past 7 years.
5. Why did they decide to address the issue?
He said that one way to have a world with peace is to eliminate landmines.
6. What is the local component, that is, how does the community own the process?
The program is funded by the government but it is run by Weetjens and his wife and his group of trainers.
7. How is success measured?
When rats find several landmines and other explosives devices in surrounding areas, miners are called in to defuse and haul them away.
8. What are the evaluative tools?
Metal detectors, rats, and miners.
Enrique Barboza
English 1A 4-550PM
Albina Ruiz is a social entrepreneur who is from Peru. She studied industrial engineering when she was in college and she noticed the health and environmental hazards of not properly managing waste. She saw how serious this issue was for the people of Peru, especially when their quality of life was in danger. She create Cuidad Saludable, which employs people in the communities to help deal with garbage. Although Peru's government was not taking care of waste, Albina Ruiz created Ciudad Saludable to help communities start cooperative garbage collecting businesses, and to educate residents about proper garbage disposal, recycling and protecting the environment.
Ruiz noticed how many cities in Peru had poor waste management. She would go to different cities and notice residents living amongst the garbage. She states that “people would throw trash into the rivers” and “the local government was not collecting garbage in areas with poor access” (Ruiz). Many areas that have poor access for garbage trucks usually did not have their garbage picked up. This left the residents no option but to illegally dump their trash nearby. This created a health hazard to the residents in the area. There were increasing reports of people getting sick from the waste. According to Ruiz, many “children who lived in these conditions were sick. I was surprised to learn that some of the children were the same age of my son. But I came to find that they were smaller and skinnier then him.” (Ruiz). These adverse conditions obviously were affecting the health of the residents and the overall environment. Ruiz is surely right that properly disposing of garbage affects the environment and health of the people. Ruiz noticed this problem plagued the country so she decided to tackle this issue.
Ruiz decided to create a business cooperative to help resolve the garbage issue and to educate the people about protecting the environment. She established garbage collecting in different communities with the help of small business people. Ruiz states that the businesses “gave jobs to people in the community. People were employed in collecting fees and educating people about recycling and protecting the environment.” These businesses found means to collect garbage from areas with poor access. Overall, the tactics in her organization quickly and efficiently cleaned up communities from their garbage problems.
Jarunee Lepnark
Professor Wanda Sabir
English 1A 20131 4pm-5:50pm
15 April 2013
Iderjit Khurana Freewrite
Creating Hope on the Tracks
In the slums of Bhubaneswar, India most girls are under severe pressure to become prostitutes
by the age of 10. Iderjit Khurana, a school teacher founded an organization that would bring the school
to the children who lived by the train tracks. Although, society may believe that these lives are
insignificant because the poor uneducated girls will never be able to contribute to society, Inderjit
believes that through education she could save these innocent lives.
In 1985, she started her school with just 11 children. She gained their trust by
bathing and feeding them. Inderjit mentioned that the children said that “people who look like me
would never reach out to touch them.” Some of the challenges that she faced was getting the children
to come to enough classes so that they would learn that there was more to the world than the poverty
that they faced on a daily basis. She also had to educate them about HIV so that they would be warned
about the disease instead of dying from it. Khurana said that “makes you feel like God” when you see a
child that you picked up from the train tracks grow into a professional.
With limited funding, no government assistance and many daily struggles, Khurana managed to
expand her Ruchika Social Service Organization from 1 platform school into 12 platform schools, 5
schools in the slums, vocational training and a hotline for battered women. She said that she feels as
though her success is “divine intervention” that “when God knows that you’re good, he will make sure
that you’re taken care of.”
Amanda Wright
Professor Wanda Sabir
English 1A 4-5:50
15 April 2013
New Heroes: Albina Ruiz
Albina Ruiz was studying industrial engineering and while writing her thesis came up with a strategy to properly dispose waste and generate stable income in Peru, which later forms her project Ciudad Saludable (Healthy Cities).
In Pucallpa, Peru with an estimate of 350,000 had garbage trucks dump trash in the middle of where people lived. There children, elderly people and expecting mothers collect trash without wearing shoes or using gloves and were exposed to germs. Ruiz talks to one of the women who collect the trash and finds bottles she had collected and stored food in them like corn or grains. Ruiz also goes to the port of Pucallpa where people exchange goods and sees all the trash on the ground, in drains and in the river. She also points out that garbage trucks don't collect garbage in the smaller cities. In other parts of Peru trash is dumped into the river where people do their laundry, drink water and farmers water their plants.
Ruiz's plan is to create landfill, treatment plants and create small businesses. She treats all the organic material so they can turn it into compost and topsoil. To show farmers that compost works, Ruiz showed them examples of grown squash and strawberries. Ruiz believes, "they have to see it to believe it" (New Heroes). Before farmers were using foreign fertilizer. For the smaller cities like Carhual, they got three wheeled carts to collect trash and the people paid the workers that collected the trash. In the port of Pucallpa they pay twenty cents for them to collect trash. With her treatment plants and added garbage trucks and carts created more jobs for the people and a healthier environment for everyone with the garbage being disposed properly.
In order to continue expanding the plan Ruiz has to earn the peoples trust. She lets them know they can change it and that the change can generate more jobs. In the end she points out to them her idea is to create "a stable salary, medical coverage and protection" (New Heroes). Ruiz also believes, "garbage is money" (New Heroes).
Miguel Becerra
English 1A 9:00am-9:50am
Prof. Sabir
New Heroes-
1)-Who is the Social entrepreneur profiled?
a. Dr. Patrick Ball - Guatemala: Secret Files
b. Kikuo Morimoto - Cambodia: Silk Grandmothers
c. Feliciano Dos Santos - Mozambique: Guitar hero
2)- What Problem did the person profiled identify?
a. Dr. Patrick Ball helped with the management and scanning of over 80 mil. documents that were unknown to be in existence - these were archives of the Guatemalan National Police and there crimes, executions, abductions and torture of indigenous and dissidents.
b. Kikuo Morimoto is a Kimono maker from Japan that is interested in the plight of the people of Cambodia. As they struggling with Poverty and war torn economic debilitation along with the preservation of Cambodia's beautiful silk making tradition and the Grandmothers and Aunts that are having difficulty passing down the tradition so they can help the future to abstain from committing sacrilege for profit.
C. Feliciano Dos Santos is helping the people of his home in Niassa the Northern most Province of Mozambique. This is one of the poorest places on earth. People are surviving on subsistent farming. They have no clean water and lacking proper hygienic condition they are overwhelm with disease, including HIV that has infected 1 in 6.
What is the name of the organization/business(es) they started?
a. Benentech
b. Institute For Khmer Traditional Textiles
c. Estamos
4.-Describe his or her relationship to the community served?
a. Dr. Patrick Ball in 1990's worked in Guatemala focusing his work to help the people dealing through the genocide that was taking place among the indigenous people there. He wishes to flush out history of violence and disappearance to use information that will help to give funding to advocacy, bringing justice to those who deserve it and connecting people through processing.
b. Kikuo Morimoto Did volumteer work on the Cambodia/Thai border in the 80's and saw how devastated the people were from the Khmer Rouge. Kikuo talked to the older women about their weaving skills. Unesco of Cambodia gave Kikuo a hand drawn map to find the weavers who were so worried about their tradition that may have died out. All the Cambodian knew was to grow rice and to weave( their tradition).
c. Santos is a native of Nissia, Mozambique. Born, raised and planting himself. This is his homeland. He does his work in regards to his love for Nissia and her people.
5. What is the local component, that is, how does the community own the process?
a. 100 workers at the building where the 80 mil. documents were found are working to keep the stories from being silenced. These the people of the area and the survivors of the casualties.
b. The community gives to future generations by the old grandmothers that get to pass down their art that might have been forgotten. It is allowing them to show their beauty in skill to people without being taken advantage of by middlemen who are out for profit and don't appreciate the work.
c. The people of Niassa are welcoming to Santos , the Eco-Sans toilet compost Fertilizer, clean water pump and joy in song. They are a part of their niche and its healthful uplifting.
6. How is success measured?
a. Success is measured in the families that know the truth about lost loved ones. Police are brought to Justice. future generations are learning their real history.
b. Success is measured through survival of the traditions of weaving and being able to have honor in the work they are doing. They are getting paid their fair share.
c. Santos Is famous but still doesn't flee his homeland for the comforts of fame. He is allowing others to follow his path by sticking around.
Joshua Harvey
Professor Wanda Sabir
English 1A Mon. & Weds. 4-5:50 pm
10 April 2013
Chapter 4 They Say Agreeing and disagreeing template response to Albina Ruiz:
A woman named Albina Ruiz had a major in industrial engineering in a country called Peru. There was a trash problem in her country which people would throw trash anywhere; the government would only take care of half the trash the community would produce, and the trash was polluting the water system. She started a trash conducting business called “Ciudad Saludable” where a few candidates in the community would be responsible for disposing the trash properly. Albina charges $1.50 for everybody that throws trash away in the city, as the fee. In addition to this solution to the trash problem, people from the community were employed to process the trash in their areas. This solution created a cleaner water system, a cleaner place to live with fresher air to breath, responsibility to the people of the area, and it lower the unemployment rate. Albina Ruiz wanted to resolve the trash problem in her community because she was concerned about her environment and the health of her peoples. Albina took it upon herself to charge people for their trash and to throw it away properly. When her organization grew larger she hired people from the area to maintain the trash problem while she made sure everything ran properly. “Her micro- enterprise model provides self-employment opportunities to local residents in neighborhoods where unemployment rates are high.” (p 1). The communities look better, the air smell better, the water is cleaner, the unemployment rate had dropped, and some women started side business from the “micro- enterprise” solution to the trash problem by selling natural fertilizers and “Ruiz has succeeded in obtaining pay rates of up to 98% [while] the government collection pay rates sunk as low as 40%” (p1). She received an offer to formulate a solution for the entire country of Peru. She even inspired other Latin American countries to use her plan for controlling trash pollution. The people in their community that is willing to help maintain their environment and the people who are not willing to maintain it will get their mentality change from the achievement of the waste management solution. Ruiz is surely right about caring for her environment and the peoples that live in it because as she may not be aware, recent studies have shown that drinking contaminated water can cause many health problems and eventually death. Those unfamiliar with this school of thought may be interested to know that it basically boils down to “[changing] the way people think” (p1) which moved her to take action in her own hands without waiting on anybody or getting approvement from the government. Ruiz theory of “micro- enterprise” is extremely useful because it sheds light on the difficult problem of the high unemployment rate her city has.
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