Tuesday, April 20, 2010

 

Frontline World: Engaged Citizenry Cyber-Assignment

Frontline World Cyber-Assignment Post(s)
Visit http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/stories/socialentrepreneurs.html

Respond to 3 stories by 4/26 (start 4/21)Bring in headphones for the computer.
Post your Frontline World Responses (3) here.

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 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?

Comments:
Rick Myers
Professor Sabir
English 201B – 1 – 2:50pm
23 April 2010

Mexico – The business of saving Trees

Patti Ruiz Corzo had, had enough of the city life. She yearned to get back to nature and did just that in an area not far from Mexico City. The Sierra Gorda Biosphere Reserve was created with the thought of not only reducing Mexico’s carbon footprint but to empower the local community by creating jobs and reviving the area.
She started small with donations from endowments as well as a U.N. program which pays the local’s to plant trees on a yearly basis, this in essence helped to restore the area. The community is now traded on a small basis in the “carbon offset” market where large corporations basically donate money to these communities in order to offset their own waste. These funds have been re-invested back into the community to create jobs such as “eco-lodges.” These lodges have created a nascent eco-tourism industry within the Sierra Gorda Biosphere. The effects are numerous, a greener richer environment in which to live, community involvement and ownership in a business as well as creating jobs. Eventually, once the biosphere is large enough they will be able to be traded on a larger scale which could possibly explode with investment into the area.
 
Rick Myers
Professor Sabir
English 201B – 1 – 2:50pm
23 April 2010

India – Design like you give a Damn

Kate and Cameron Stohr were watching coverage of the Kosovo refugees who had been displaced by the war. These two young architects came up with an idea. They started a contest for architects to submit environmentally friendly ideas to help rebuild ravaged areas of this nature. Their office was flooded with design boards and soon they realized they were on to something. This eventually grew into a non-profit by the name of “Architecture for Humanity.”
After a Tsunami hit the Bengal coast in Tomulnadu, Purnima McCutheon, a young architect who was tired of working for corporations decided to get involved. She has since designed and completed the building of community centers for over twelve such villages. The design process directly involves the locals and helps to re-create a sense of ownership and pride in what is happening. Not only that but with Architecture for Humanity raising the funds local craftsmen and women are employed and inspired.
 
Rick Myers
Professor Sabir
English 201B – 1 – 2:50pm
23 April 2010

Ecuador – Flower Power

Being so close to the equator Ecuador is one of the best places on the planet to grow tall, straight flowers. The industry earns over 350 million per year and started over 20 years ago. However, the industry in Ecuador has not had the best reputation in the past. With squalid working conditions, extreme use of pesticides contributing to waste/pollution and general hostility towards workers things needed to change.
Nevado Roses was started by Robert Nevado and is now run by his son and social entrepreneur John Nevado. In an effort to improve conditions he has made a number of changes. Over half of the workforce is female and an on-site daycare with meals included is provided for the children. With the additional cost of Nevado’s Fair Trade roses the company is also able to provide training to their employees as well as micro-loans to start business’s or do home improvements. And let’s not forget about the environmental impact. Nevado has also cut a deal with a local slaughterhouse for their leftover blood/waste which was previously dumped into a local river. This in turn is used to created very rich mulch and significantly reduces the pollution of the local river. Instead of working against nature Nevado is working with nature by also using aphid eating pests to control them. All in all, Nevado Roses is helping to build a community of pride as well as being mindful of the environment. Bravo!
 
Melvin P. Herring
Professor Sabir
English 201A 10-11:50
26 April 2010

Guatemala: The Secret Files

1.Who is the social entrepreneur profiled?
ahora alana
2.What problem did the person profiled identify?
Police said there wasn't a police database and there was, and it was used for more then just information.
3.What is the name of the organization they started?
Memoria Verdad y Justica.
4.Describe their relationship to the community that they serve?
they help the community out, they have a stong bond.
• Why they decided to address this issue?
to find out what has happened to dead or missing family members.
5.What is the local component?
finding out about family and friends that went missing.
6.How does the community own the process?
they have the information to find out everything on there own.
 
Melvin P. Herring
Professor Sabir
English 201A 10-11:50
26 April 2010

Ecuador: Flower Power

1.Who is the social entrepreneur profiled?
Robert Nevado
2.What problem did the person profiled identify?
rights for workers, workers need rights to and thats what he wanted to show.
3.What is the name of the organization they started?
Nevado Roses
4.Describe their relationship to the community that they serve?
a good one they allow free day care for there workers, and a living wage.

• Why they decided to address this issue?
people need a good wage to live off of, workers have rights and they work to hard not to get them.
5.What is the local component?
human rights
6.How does the community own the process?
they get free day care and more rights free food..so there very taken care of.
 
Adrianna Sterling
April 26th, 2010


1.Who is the social entrepreneur profiled?Alora Alana

2.What problem did the person profiled identify? police hiding database saying there wasnt any but there was


3.What is the name of the organization they started?

4.Describe their relationship to the community that they serve? Justice

• Why they decided to address this issue? because it was things in the database being hidden from them

5.What is the local component?
6.How does the community own the process? being able to be takign care of and to trust police how can you trust them if there hiding things
 
Bernardita Rappaport
Wanda Sabir
English 201B
Mondays and Wednesdays
10:00-11:50 am
Today in class I watched a video about the Millennium Village in Rwanda and I learned about the lack of health care, food and money that Rwanda have. A man named Josh Rowan started working in Rwanda in 2006 and he was very concern about the situation in this country. At that time, Rwanda didn`t have health care, and almost the 60% of the population was dying from Malaria. Also, the new born babies were very tiny. After a week in Rwanda, the only phrase that Josh heard was hamasi(no water) and nivirio(no food).
The goal of Josh Rowan was to improve life in Rwanda, and the first thing he did was to build a hospital for the people in the Millennium Village. The second thing he did was to improve the agriculture working with the farmers on the plantations of pomegranate tries. Fortunately, the agriculture was very successful and the production of pomegranate increased the economy. Later, more than 500 women started making very beautiful baskets to increase the economy in the village.
In 2008, when Josh Rowan came back to Rwanda he learned that the situation in the Millennium Village was so much better because the economy was better and the people wasn`t dying from Malaria anymore.
 
Gilbert Canlas
Professor Sabir
English 201A 10-11:50am
26 April 2010

Vietnam: Wheels of Change

The entrepreneur profiled is Ralf Hotchkiss. Ralf had a motorcycle accident and paralyzed his both legs. Being an Engineer, he constructed his very own wheelchair for the sole purpose of convenience. But later on he thought that he is basically not the only one relying on their wheelchair. He then made a small wheelchair maker company; he named the wheelchair RoughRider, which later on became the name of his small company. Ralf partnered with Toan Nguyen in Vietnam who is a factory owner. Together thay make the wheelchair and sell it or even give it to the people that need it the most. They sponsored a disabled pingpong tournament, and they gave out wheelchair to the participants.
 
Gilbert Canlas
Professor Sabir
English 201A 10-11:50am
26 April 2010

Mozambique: Guitar Hero

The entrepreneur profiled is Feliciano Dos Santos. Feliciano is a leader of a rock band in Niassa, a huge land in Mozambique. Feliciano and his band’s songs talks about hygiene, sanitation, and health. They said that they want to deliver this message in a good, catchy way by turning it into music. As the band grows, Feliciano used the profits they earned from their sponsors in the Western country, to make public toilets, fertilizers for farmers, and promote personal hygiene around Mozambique, Feliciano calls his work EcoSan. Feliciano is a victim of polio, and he does not want to see the children of Mozambique to have the same problem as he have. Santos recently received $150,000 Goldman Environment Prize in San Francisco for his work.
Here are some lines from his popular song.
Let’s wash our hands
Let’s wash our hands
For the children to stay healthy
For the uncles to stay healthy
For the mothers to stay healthy
We build latrines
 
Gilbert Canlas
Professor Sabir
English 201A 10-11:50am
26 April 2010

Ecuador: Flower Power

The entrepreneur profiled is Robert Nevado. Robert’s son John Nevado now runs the company Nevado Roses. Nevado Roses ships roses in many Western countries. Nevado Roses provided excellent service for their employees. John promoted fair trade, he thinks that once this relation is established between the countries, it will be good for his people in Ecuador, he said that “…consumer power ... and me as a capitalist farmer trying to change the way things are done, so these two forces working together are actually changing things the way things are done, for the better.” Nevado Roses earn $350 million a year and has been running for 20 years.
 
Latisha davis
professor sabir
eng 201 ab
26 april 2010

Sierra Leone- yeabu homecoming

talks about women who can no longer bare children and are shuned by there friends and there families because the smell due to obstectic fitsula witch comes from pre longed labor as the babies head pushs againts the pelvic area the surrounding tissue dies an both mother and babie die as well if mother survies she leaks urine constantly an it just talks about the mamy women that suffer from it an the handful of suries that are done to save there lives so they can rejoin there family.

uganda out of the wild

talks anout the epicidemic of desieses thats breaking out threw animal to human and human to animal and how there trying to stop it from the cource teaching people to stay heath an watch out for there surroundings
 
Khan Ly
Professor Sabir
English 201B- 1:00-2:50p.m.
26 April 2010

Today, each person in the class had to choice 3 stories on the Frontline World, and I choice the stories “Vietnam: Wheel of Change,” “Egypt: Middle East, Inc.” and “Mexico: The Business of Saving Trees.” The first story is about Vietnam and the Wheelchair Company. The second story is about Egypt and the way young people tried to find their place in the country. Lastly, the third story is about reducing the carbon from the world.

But in all those stories, I like the story “Vietnam: Wheel of Change” the most because it point out the way Vietnamese people are thinking. In the story, Toan and Whirlwind Wheelchair have cooperated in designing the wheelchair for Cripple people. Since Vietnam was a country in constant motion, so many wheelchair people were ignored by normal people. And the wheelchair company in Vietnam was not worldwide so many wheelchair people has a difficult on buying a better wheelchair. Sometime those people even get fall down from their wheelchair if they do not get careful. But thank to Toan and Whirlwind Wheelchair company, those people can have a better wheelchair and they transportation was easier than before. And right now more and more cripple people are buying the wheelchair form Toan. And Whirlwind Wheelchair started to increase around the world.
 
Neil Chu

Professor Sabrir

English 201A 10-11:50 MW

26 April 2010


Vietnam: Wheels of change


1. .Who is the social entrepreneur profiled? : Ralph Hotches

2.What problem did the person profiled identify?: there are many disabled people in Vietnam and hospital wheelchairs don’t work well in these conditions ans can be unsafe.

3..What is the name of the organization they started?: rough rider

4. .Describe their relationship to the community that they serve?: many clients and business partners like himself, are handicapped

5. Why they decided to address this issue?: because wheelchairs that are in Vietnam do not fit the lifestyle of the Vietnamese. They have rough roads and roads are not wheelchair friendly.

6. What is the local component? :parts are made in the united states, then replicated in the workshops in Vietnam for cheaper.

7. how does the community own the process? : workers are form local communitys, they make wheelchair parts.
 
Tracey Lee
201B 23075
MW 1-2.50pm
26 April 2010

In A Girl’s Life John Wood was on holiday in Nepal in 1998, for a much needed breakaway from corporate life. Tracking the mountains, John met a local headmaster, witnessed a depilated school and a library of empty shelves. His trip ended with a headmaster’s simple book request that jumpstarted the Room to Read project. The project started with book provisions for school libraries that evolved to educational innovation such as building schools, scholarships for girls and writing workshops. John’s holiday changed his life forever, from an executive to a social entrepreneur and to empowerment of girls in the underdeveloped countries through his Room to Read program.

In Rough Cut, Jenny Chu was a Journalism student in 2002 who was on a study assignment to document medical activities in African. What she found was that, women suffered from obstetric fistula (extreme incontinence because of obstructed labor), and as a result was shun by the community. In 2005, Jenny returned to Africa for her master thesis in journalism, and followed up on the progress of the medical activities. Jenny learned that Mercy Ships (that dock at ports around the world) had built a land-based fistula clinic in Freetown to treat women with obstetric fistula on the request of Dr. Alyona Lewis, an obstetric fistula surgeon who had chosen to bring hope to the women of her country.

In Vietnam: Wheels of Change Ralf Hotchkiss is a wheelchair bound engineering professor at San Francisco State University. Physical infrastructure obstacles for wheelchair user motivated Ralf to toy with designs that can defeat these obstacles, thus making life easier for the disable. Ralf Hotchkiss and his associate Marc Krizack had a vision to market the Rough Rider a wheelchair that is sturdy and flexibility to maneuver over obstacles to developing countries. In order to make the Rough Rider accessible and attainable Ralf and Marc collaborated with Toan Nguy to mass produce the wheelchair in Vietnam as materials and labor are relatively cheap in that country.
 
Sareth Chhoth
Professor Sabir
English 201A MW 10-12
26 April 2010

Silk Grandmothers

In the video that I watched, a man named Morimoto saw that Cambodian silk making was almost going extinct. The reason why I choose the video was because I saw the word Cambodian. It is nice to watch some things that are about my culture. In the video, Morimoto saw that only a few silk weaved. The ones that he saw weaving silk were the older women. He thought that it was a good idea to open an institute for the women and to revive that tradition by teaching the younger generation. He also made so the women would make profit from it and earn a living wage.
 
Luis Arechiga
Professor Sabir
English 201B 1-2:50pm
29 April 2010


Paraguay: Sounds of Earth

In the slums of Cateora, Paraguay-- Luis Szaran is making a difference whithin the community.
Luis Szara is the founder and director of the music program Sonidos de la Tierra [Sounds of the Earth]. A program that brings orhpanes, as well as community children, together in harmony. The program offers free lessons, and free instruments. It was not long until the children found their way to the program. Music creates joy, friendships, and lets one express himself to the world. Music has the ability to sway people's emotions. Music created a loving, caring, and emotional environment for all the orphanes who had lived nothing but pain and suffering while living in the streets. Many of the poor kids now teach others to play, and some have managed to gain scholarships to universities.


Vietnam: Wheels of change

In vietnam, public accomandations for the disabled are rarely ever seen. There are no public transportations, there no cut curbs, and everyone are pretty much on their own to survive.
Quan Dien is a wheelchair rider and is one of many who face challenges and obstacles everyday in order to survive.
Because the streets of his neighborhood aren’t wheelchair friendly, Quan mostly stays home in his small apartment. To make ends meet, he rents his back room workshop to another wheelchair rider, Thanh Giang, who contracted polio as a child.

Ralf Hotchkiss is the inventor of the whirlwind wheelchair. The Whirlwind Wheelchair International, based at San Francisco State University, is an organization of wheelchair inventors and builders here in the United States working with a network of wheelchair builders in developing countries. It is intended to help people in developing countries design the very best wheelchairs that can possibly be made and that can be built in developing countries for people to use in very rough conditions.
With the new additions of inovated wheelchairs, transportation for the handicapped has gained a major benefit in comfortable living for the developing nations.


Nepal: Room to Read

I was touched to see how much the children of Nepal appreciate their education. In America, children sometimes take school for granted and view it as chore instead of an opportunity because it is easy for everyone to get an education. In Nepal, the children have seen what life is like without education and are motivated to learn so that they can have a career in something other than manual labor or housework. John Wood has been innovative in his invention of the Room to Read program, giving scholarships to girls, who have the greatest opportunity to bring Nepal out of poverty through educating their future children. Also, if not for this program, these girls would have few opportunities because of their inferior status in the Nepal society. The girls seem to realize this and enjoy their education, especially reading the books provided by the Room to Read libraries. If Room to Read can really grow as fast as Starbucks, it will make an amazing difference in education worldwide.
 
Sandy Saeteun
30 April 2010
English 201B
Professor Sabir
MW 9:00
Frontline Assignment
1. Sierra Leone: Yeabu's Homecoming Overcoming the stigma of a childbirth injury
The social entreprenur profiled in this this story was Yeabu Thronka she helps women with fistula.
2. The problem that profiles this person identity was fistula and women that had trouble with child birth.
3. The name of the organization that she started is called The Princess Christian Maternity Hospital.
4. Yeabu used to have fistula and she knows the feeling of isolation and embarrassment that it brings. She lived in Sierra Leon.
5. She decides to address the issue because a friend had asked her to work there and there were many women that were suffering from fistula in the area.
6. The local component is fistula a lot of women suffer from it and they do not get the necessary medical attention that is needed to help heal it.
7. The community owns the process because there is a hospital that is built there to care for the patients. The patients have to find their own way to get to the hospital though.



Nepal: A Girl's Life -- Making room to read
1. The social entrepreneur profile in this story was John Wood, he worked for Microsoft.
2. The problem that was identified was that kids in Nepal did not have books to read and there were not enough school in the village.
3. The name of the organization was called Room to Read.
4. Wood went on a visit to Nepal and found it hard to believe that there were not books for children to read and he wanted to help them buy books and built schools. He believed that books and school could make a long lasting impact on these kids.
5. Schools, books, and libraries
6. The community runs the library, they help build the schools and children become literate and educated.


India: Design like You Give a Damn
1. Purnima McCutcheon is the social entrepreneur that is profile in the video.
2. The problem that is profile is that not many countries have a lot of buildings and facilities due to natural disaster or lack of maney.
3. Design like You Give a Damn is the organization that is started.
4. After the tsunami, she wanted to help fix the buildings and make more greener and stable buildings for the communities.
5. The local components are the buildings that are being constructed and designs that community gets to vote on.
6. The community owns this process because they are the one that are building it and they have say on what kind of facilities they want and where they want it at.
 
Thea Hernandez
201A M&W
30 April 2010
Professor Sabir

Frontline Assignment

1&2) Yeabu’s Homecoming. This story talks what obstetric fistula is in women, it’s is a hole worn away in a woman's bladder or rectum due to prolonging of child birth and medical care. The smell of urine and feces is unbarable, no one wants to be around you. 3) The name of the organization is Princess Christian Maternity Hospital. 4) Describe their relationship to the community that they serve, Yeabu lives in the community and had fistula herself for 4 years before she was healed. 5) Why they decided to address this issue.
The Community addressed the issue by telling each other about the program and than going to the hospital to get cured. 6) How does the community own the process, they own it because so many women have the problem.

Nepal
A Girl's Life
Making room to read

1) Who is the social entrepreneur profiled. John Wood from Microsoft
2) What problem did the person profiled identify. There were no books to read in Nepal for the children.
3)Room to Read
4 & 5) Describe their relationship to the community that they serve. John Wood came back a year later to bring books to the children along with other people who cared about them.
6) What is the local component, school, books & a library.
7) How does the community own the process, the community became involved.

Design like you give a Damn

1)Who is the social entrepreneur profiled. Purnima McCutcheon an American-trained architect
2)What problem did the person profiled identify? There was a need in the community for schools, a community center.
3)What is the name of the organization they started, “Design like you give a damn”
4)Describe their relationship to the community that they serve. Purnima wanted to help build in the community for better opportunities for the people.
5)What is the local component? The building & the facilities.
6)How does the community own the process? By becoming involved in some of the decision makings.
 
Adilene Velazquez
Professor Sabir
English 201A MW 10-12
26 April 2010

Frontline World Assignment

I found the video Rwanda: Millennium Village, very impressive. The social entrepreneur profiled is Josh. He is part of an organization called Millennium Village. They worked with the government of Rwanda to improve the lives of the people. They helped the people plant fruit trees, improve the clinics, and become more organized. The women even started basket weaving in order to earn income to support their families. The main purpose is to help the villagers have a better life.

The video Tibet: Eye Camps, focuses in cataracts disease because it has become an epidemic. Tibet has the highest amount of untreated cataract in the world. Dr. Mark Liberman is an American Ophthalmologist who along with other volunteers, set up “eye-camps” in remote areas. He travels to Tibet twice a year to run mobile eye camps. The camps have benefitted the people there because if it wasn’t for them, they wouldn’t be able to see which would make their lives extremely difficult.

In the video Egypt: Middle East inc., Soraya Salti is the social entrepreneur who founded the Injaz program. The purpose of the program is to make competitions for young people who want to become entrepreneurs and start their own business. The reason why Soraya became interested in this program is because in Egypt there are a lot of young adults who don’t have many options in life so she wants to make a difference. The community has benefitted because this program opens a door of opportunities for these young adults, since it gives them an example of what they have to do in order to succeed in the real world.
 
Obada Natouf
Professor Sabir
English 201B – 1 – 2:50pm
Vietnam: Wheels of change

In vietnam, public transportation for the disabled is not found. and everyone is selfish they car about no one. Quan Dien is the guy on whell chair he is one of many people who experienced the problem of transportation.he stays home.
 
Damian Jackson
Professor Sabir
English 201b 10-11:50am
26 April 2010

Ecuador Flower Power

The entrepreneur profiled is Robert Nevado. His son is John Nevado currently runs the company Nevado Rose. Nevado Roses earn $350 million a year and has been running for 20 years. Nevado Roses ships roses in many Western countries. Nevado gave good service for their employees. John promoted equal opportunity and thinks that once this relation is established between the countries, it will be good for his people in Ecuador.
 
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