Thursday, November 20, 2008
Another Local Hero: Albina Ruiz
In the morning class we watched one of the PBS.org New Heroes' programs and then completed a planning sheet together. I wanted to look at the library databases for additional information on the topic.
Visit http://www.pbs.org/opb/thenewheroes/meet/ruiz.html to read about Ruiz. I gave students who werwe present a copy of the profile from the site.
SE: Albina Ruiz, health and environmental engineer in Peru interested in the rural areas
Location: Peru
Problem: Garbage too close to homes caused people to become ill
The first thing she did after identifying the problem was to talk to those affected by pollution.
How did she involve the community? When she spoke to them they told her how the kids were sick.
Why didn't they move? Poverty
What did Ruiz do? Cleaned up the area and created jobs to help the families support themselves. Fishing industry – not only did she help the community create work from the elimination of toxins, she also helped them begin to see the connection between waste disposal and health.
What else was involved to help secure the change in this rural area of Peru? Education and then this community effort raised their status with the government which started to assist in the removal and elimination of toxic waste
She created 3 businesses; what are they?
Visit http://www.pbs.org/opb/thenewheroes/meet/ruiz.html to read about Ruiz. I gave students who werwe present a copy of the profile from the site.
SE: Albina Ruiz, health and environmental engineer in Peru interested in the rural areas
Location: Peru
Problem: Garbage too close to homes caused people to become ill
The first thing she did after identifying the problem was to talk to those affected by pollution.
How did she involve the community? When she spoke to them they told her how the kids were sick.
Why didn't they move? Poverty
What did Ruiz do? Cleaned up the area and created jobs to help the families support themselves. Fishing industry – not only did she help the community create work from the elimination of toxins, she also helped them begin to see the connection between waste disposal and health.
What else was involved to help secure the change in this rural area of Peru? Education and then this community effort raised their status with the government which started to assist in the removal and elimination of toxic waste
She created 3 businesses; what are they?
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Andrew Nguyen
English 201
8-8:50AM
Our social entrepreneur?
- Albina Ruiz - Health and Environmental Engineer
- Peru
- Garbage being too close to homes, resulting in illnesses
- found out the problem with the garbage when she was a student studying Industrial Engineering.
- had conversations with the people in the community about the garbage issue.
- told her that people were getting sick from the pollution.
- people stayed in the community due to poverty
- Albina and the community cleaned up the area and created jobs to help the families, supporting themselves.
- Fishing industry - not only did she help the community create work from the elimination of toxins, she also helped them began to see the connection between waste disposal and health.
- Education, and then this community effort raised their status with the government, which started to assist in the removal and elimination of toxic waste.
- Albina was able to expand the process to other communities with the same issues.
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English 201
8-8:50AM
Our social entrepreneur?
- Albina Ruiz - Health and Environmental Engineer
- Peru
- Garbage being too close to homes, resulting in illnesses
- found out the problem with the garbage when she was a student studying Industrial Engineering.
- had conversations with the people in the community about the garbage issue.
- told her that people were getting sick from the pollution.
- people stayed in the community due to poverty
- Albina and the community cleaned up the area and created jobs to help the families, supporting themselves.
- Fishing industry - not only did she help the community create work from the elimination of toxins, she also helped them began to see the connection between waste disposal and health.
- Education, and then this community effort raised their status with the government, which started to assist in the removal and elimination of toxic waste.
- Albina was able to expand the process to other communities with the same issues.
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