Monday, October 18, 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 10/18-10/31. Bring in headphones for the computer.
Post your Frontline World Responses (3) on the blog.

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:
Ronald Parker
Professor Sabir
English 201B
20 October 2010

Cambodia : The Silk Grandmothers
1. The social entrepreneur profiled is Kikuo Morimoto.
2. The problem identified was that after decades of mother and daughter tradition of the art of silk weaving it might be no longer existing.
3. The name of the organization is The Silk Grandmothers
4. Morimoto started an organization that hired 400 workers and paid them from $80 - $200 a month. From only getting paid $300 a year helped them out more. He decided to do this so silk weaving would not die and the cambodian people would have a way of surviving.
5. The local component is silk weaving in the cambodian life.
6. The community owns this process because Morimoto was from Cambodia and he gave back to his community.

Ecuador: Country Doctors
1. The social entrepreneur being profiled is Dr. Rodas
2. The problem being profiled is that Rodas saw that healthcare in Ecuador was not good so he wanted to find a way it make it better for the people.
3. The name of the organization was Cinterades Foundation which was founded in 1995
4. Dr. Rodas got together with the Ecuador government and received small donations so he could be a bit of a mobile hospital. This allowed he and his team to travel to help the sick. Rodas and his team wanted to change the landscape of rural health in Ecuador.
5. The local component is the Cinterades Foundation, which was heping people.
6.The community owns this process because with the lended money from the government, the health assists all people throughout Ecuador to help them live a better and longer life.
 
Nestor Mendoza
Professor Sabir
English 201A
20 October 2010

1. The social entreprenuer profiled is Kailash Satyarthi.

2. The problem that the person profiled identifies is salves owned by the Indian mafia.

3. The name of the organization he started was Bachpan Bachao Andolan (BBA) and South Asian Coalition on Child Servitude (SACCS).

4. He tries to get rid of slavery and teach the young people the importance of education.

5. The nlocal component is that he gives the people things that they may have never seen befor.

6. The community owns this process because Kailash was from India and he gave back to his community.
 
Miguel Ahumada
professor Sabir
English 201A
20 october 2010

1.The social entrepeneur that is profiled is Kailash Satyarthi

2.The problem that Kailash faces is Slavery that is forced by the Indian mafia

3.The name of the organizations are SACCS and BBA

4. He goes into the slave communities and tries to give kids an education for a better generation and to abolish slavery

5. Kailash made the people feel confortable. he gave them food, education, and morality.

6. The community owns thid process because Kailash was from India and gave back to his community
 
Bundarin Ouk Jr
Professor Sabir
English 201A
20 October 2010

1.the main charcter or the social entreprebeur is Kikuo

2. h issues that were brought up was thier about their tradition that mught get lost.

3.The group is the Silk of Grandmothers

4. SACCS and its partners have liberated nearly 40,000 bonded laborers, many of them bonded, working in various industries, including rug manufacturing. But to free such children without offering new opportunities would, in Kailash's view, be meaningless.

5. He local component is making the people feel right and making them feel happy.

6.The community own the process by givung back to the community.
 
WINNIE LI

PROFESSOR SABIR

ENGLISH 201A 1-3 PM

20 OCTOBER 2010


1. The social entrepreneur is Kailash Satyarthi.

2. The problem that Kailash Satyarthi identified is child labor in areas such as India, Bangladesh, Nepal and etc.

3. The name of the organization they started is called South Asian Coalition on Child Servitude(SACCS).

4. Their relationship to the community they serve is freeing children from slavery but also giving them opportunities in the world.

5. Their local component is to help give people a new perspective that they were never open to.

6. The community owns the process because every one can make a difference.
 
Dalina Le

Professor Sabir

English 201A

20 October 2010

1. The social entrepreneur is Kailash Satyarthi.

2. Satyarthi indentified child labor/slavery.

3. The name of the organization they started is South Asia Coalition on Child Servitude (SACCS).

4. The relationship they have with the community is the slave chain around the world and trying to help end slavery for children.

5. The local component is to make those people feel safe and that they are there to help end the exploitation of child labor.

6. The community owns the process by being themselves.
 
Dulguun Enkhtsogoo
Professor Sabir
English 201 B
20 October 2010

1.The social entrepreneur that is profiled is Kailash Satyarthi.
2.Kailash Satyarthi identified the problem of slavery in India
3.The name of the organization he started was Bachpan Bachao Andolan and South Asian Coalition on Child Servitude.
4.He serves the communtiy by educating the children that used to be slaves and give them opportunity to succeed in life and also rescuing, feeding, and sheltering the ones that brought to the camp. They decided to address this issue because slavery still exist in the world and there are local heroes in the real world tryig to stop this issue.
5.To end child slavery and all slavery
6. The work as one, they are in the same team, helping each other try make their community better .
 
Ronald Parker
Professer Sabir
English 201B
23 October 2010

India: A New Life, Getting Children Off The Streets

1. The social entrepreneur being profield is Father Thomas Koshy
2. The problem identified was that in southern india is that there are really no places for the children to go, all they are doing is sleeping in the streets any and everywhere.
3. The name of the organization is getting children off the streets
4.Father Koshy worked in southern india for the majority of his life. With the help of the mayor Koshy started a homeless shelter that could fit the population of many thousands of children to get them off the street and have a place to live
5. the local component is Koshy's homeless shelter that he started for the poor.
6. The community owns this process because the man who thougght of the ideas worked in India and the man who helped fund it was the mayor of India. Also in the end it was for the kids of India, to help them have a place to lie their heads at night
 
Edwin Peabody
Professor Sabir
Eng 201A 8-850
25 October 2010
1) The social entrepreneur profiled was Jim Froctomine.
2) He identifies the problem of the missing Guatemalans due to the police achieve. He proved that the police murdered people in Guatemala for no reason. He wanted to find out the truth of what happened to all of the disappearing people in Guatemala due to the violence of the police.
3) He started an organization called Benetech which helped find out the truth of the missing Guatemalan citizens. He decided to address this issue because he wanted the history of the violence in Guatemala to be known.
4) Their relationship in the community that they serve is a relationship of helping those in need. Determining the truth on the entire missing Guatemala citizen captured by the police is very essential.
5) The local component is the citizen of Guatemala City is still investigating the police archive.
6) The community owns this process because they are very involved and determined to find out the secrets of the police in Guatemala.
 
Edwin Peabody
Wanda Sabir
Eng 201A 8-850
25 October 2010
Rwanda: Millemium village
1) The social entrepreneur profiled is josh recson
2) He identifies the poor agriculture, heath care and, living condition in Rwanda.
3) Millenium village foundation is started in help improve these conditions.
4) Josh is very involved in the community of Rwanda. The people of Rwanda view josh as a provider for all the things their poor country lacks. Josh addresses this issue because Rwanda in one of the poorest countries and suffer from a lot of poverty.
5) The local component is to relieve Rwanda from its poverty.
6) The community owns the process by creating their own business in basket making and beginning a business in pomegranate.
 
Edwin Peabody
Wanda Sabir
Eng 201A 8-850
25 October 2010
Tibet: Eye camp
1) The social entrepreneur is Dr Mark Lieberman
2) He identified the problem with cataracts in Tibet.
3) He started a few eye camps in Tibet and also trained the Tibetan doctors in performing operations dealing with cataracts.
4) Mark decided to address the issue because he wanted the Tibetan people to be able to have the tools and skill to possibly prevent cataracts.
5) The local component is the eye camps that were opened to help the Tibetan people gain back their vision.
6) The Tibetan doctors have now been trained how to operate on patients with cataracts. They will continue operating on patients who suffer from cataracts
 
Edwin Peabody
Professor Sabir
Eng 201A 8-850
25 October 2010
Guatemala: the secret files
1) The social entrepreneur profiled was Jim Froctomine.
2) He identifies the problem of the missing Guatemalans due to the police achieve. He proved that the police murdered people in Guatemala for no reason. He wanted to find out the truth of what happened to all of the disappearing people in Guatemala due to the violence of the police.
3) He started an organization called Benetech which helped find out the truth of the missing Guatemalan citizens. He decided to address this issue because he wanted the history of the violence in Guatemala to be known.
4) Their relationship in the community that they serve is a relationship of helping those in need. Determining the truth on the entire missing Guatemala citizen captured by the police is very essential.
5) The local component is the citizen of Guatemala City is still investigating the police archive.
6) The community owns this process because they are very involved and determined to find out the secrets of the police in Guatemala.
 
Mayra S. Cortez

Professor Sabir

English 201A 8-8am

Story #1- Getting children off the streets

1.Father Koshy
2.Koshy believes that the enourmous social divide between the poor and the properous in india is growing wider.
3.New Life Childrens Home
4.He gains support from the indian government, raised money from foreign donors to create a safe are and educate the children.
5.Employ former street children as part of the rehabilitation process. The kids use their own experinces of the streets to help out other children
6.There are children attending the shelters and trying to live a better life, develope skills, and learn how to read and write.

Story#2- Ecuador Country Doctors
1.Dr.Rodas
2.He was frustrated by Ecuadors lack of health resources for poor people.
3.Cinterandes Foundation
4. Dr. Rodas and a small group of people set out to reach areas were people rarely got medicine or treatment such as fishing villages on the coast, amazon jungle, or up the hills.
5.He has a mobile hospital truck, to perform surgeries in areas where people cannot afford to travel to a hospital.
6.People who have serious health issues and cannot afford surgery go to Dr. Rodas for free health care.

Story#3-Nepal Making Room to read

1. John Wood
2.He visited a school in nepal, were he noticed the library was nearly empty.
3.Room To Read
4.The Nepalese are running the libraries, and helping expand projects of building school. He felt it was his responsibility to make sure girls are given the same oppurtunity for education in a society that has traditionally favored boys.
5.Have more books for children to read and educate them.
6. Nepalese are staff in libraries.
 
Joshua Gonzalez
Professor Sabir
English 201A
24 October 2010

Frontline World: Engaged Citizenry Cyber-Assignment

Vietnam: Wheels of Change

Who is the social entrepreneur profiled?

The social entrepreneur is Ralf Hotchkiss, an engineering professor at San Francisco State.

What problem did the person profiled indentify?

The problem that Hotchkiss identified is wheelchairs and the need to make them more adaptable to the person in the chair more accessible. With the Rough Rider, the wheelchair he developed, gave the rider a safer and affordable solution with their everyday needs.

What is the name of the organization they started?

The organization is called Whirlwind Wheelchair.

Describe their relationship to the community that they serve?

The chair is being built in Vietnam. Locally built and given away to locals who can’t afford the chair. The relationship is a close knit relationship. One recipient of the Rough Rider chair was Quan Dien. He met Toan Nguyen twenty years ago. Nguyen gave him his first wheelchair. When they met again in the film, it was an emotional reunion. Nguyen also gave away chairs to the other disabled riders during a tournament with wheelchair needs.

Why they decided to address this issue?

Vietnam and other parts of the world does not have the wheelchair rider in mind. The Rough Rider was an answer to a problem for these people who felt restricted to their homes and unable to travel in their own communities.

What is the local component?

In Vietnam, Dien says, “. . . when they build things, they don't think if it's convenient for anyone. So, disabled people put up with a lot of difficulties.” So their environment is the component to which the new chair allows them to overcome.

How does the community own the process?

With the low cost of construction, using locally available materials and inexpensive labor, makes the chair easy to be made anywhere in the world. So the community can make the chair without outsourcing parts.
 
Joshua Gonzalez
Professor Sabir
English 201A
24 October 2010

Ecuador: Flower Power

Who is the social entrepreneur profiled?

The social entrepreneur profiled is John Nevado, a progressive grower in Latacunga, Ecuador.

What problem did the person profiled indentify?

The problem was how the workers in flower farms were being treated, exposure to chemicals that got the workers sick, and how they were being mistreated. The flower industry need change in order to adapt to the environmental friendly world.

What is the name of the organization they started?

Nevado Roses, the leading flower farm in Latacunga, Ecuador.
Describe their relationship to the community that they serve?
The relationship has improved since the workers have been given better treatment and a more health conscious environment. Women make up almost half of the staff on the farm and giving them free daycare on the farm.

Why they decided to address this issue?

Not only it was a human rights issue with how the women were treated on the farms, but it was also a “green” issue as well. Nevado wanted to create a farm where it cares about its employees and also the environment. It contracted a slaughter house with use the blood from the pigs and cows to mix it in with the compos to make it more nutrient for the roses, and also cleaning up the local river as well. The slaughter house used to drain the waste into the river, but with this solution, it took out two birds with one stone.

What is the local component?

The local component is the eco system. With growing the flowers organically, they keep the local environment clean, use recycled water and plants to use for compos, special plants to filter out metals in the rivers and lakes to water the roses with sparking clean water, and use certain insects to kills harmful insects on the crops.

How does the community own the process?

With everything being done locally, the community is flourishing and the workers are happier. Shipment of the flowers to the US helps with their economy greatly. With all the changed to switching to organic growing, Americans don’t mind paying the difference to get the flowers.
 
Joshua Gonzalez
Professor Sabir
English 201A
24 October 2010

India: Design like You Give a Damn

Who is the social entrepreneur profiled?

Purnima McCutcheon, an American-trained architect. For 14 years, her life was on the traditional architect’s track – but after the tsunami, she picked up everything and moved to India to help.

What problem did the person profiled indentify?

After the tsunami, relief poured in – medicine, food and clothing. But, as often happens with big disasters, the world’s attention moved on. She wanted to build a community center. She gathered the town and asked them to draw sketches of what they needed – a preschool, a bathroom, a place to hold celebrations and lead study groups. She took this long list and came up with a plan for one village hall that could meet all these needs.

What is the name of the organization they started?

They didn’t have an organization. It was a network of architects around the world ready to help when needed. Their motto has become “Design Like You Give a Damn.”

Describe their relationship to the community that they serve?

It brought the community together to help with the construction of the community center. After the tsunami, they lost hope.

Why they decided to address this issue?

With much of their village decimated from the tsunami, the villagers needed something to rebuild hope and the sense of community back which they lost.

What is the local component?

The locals were able to participate in the design and gave feedback about the design of the building.

How does the community own the process?

Local workers are hired for the construction, generating income and a sense of ownership. The whole building will cost less than $6,000. Purnima completed the building just last year, and it’s become the heart of village life.
 
Hoa Vo
Professor Sabir
English 201A
23 October 2010
Wheel of Chance
1. The Social Entrepreneur profiled is Ralf Hotchkiss
2. The problem being profiled is that disable people from developing countries are struggling due to the inconvenience of wheelchairs being made.
3. The name of the organization is called Worldwind Wheelchair.
4. He traveled to Vietnam and discussed the idea with a factory owner, Toan Nguyen. His idea not only helped the disables but also helped raise money from organizations to help raise money so the poor could afford the wheelchairs. Hotchkiss is paralyzed due to an accident so he felt the need to invent an equipment that could be easily used for himself and the ones who are suffering.
5. The local component is to help the ones who are not able to walk from around the world.
6. The community own the process by sharing this invention all over the world

A New Life
1. The social entrepreneur profiled is Father Koshy
2. The problem identified the adult and children living on the street in Vajayawada, India due to low hopes in finding jobs and the freedom children gained in the streets.
3.Name of organization started is called the New Life Children's Home (homeless shelter)
4. Koshy had former street kids to help the children that were living on the streets & be role models to save their lives. The program helped more than 25,000 children off the streets life and the organization now runs 12 centers in the Vajayawada, India.
5. Local component is reaching out to all children that are accustomed to the street life.
6. The community own the process by the finance the government and foreign donors offered to start the program.
 
Hoa Vo
Professor Sabir
English 201
23 October 2010
Nepal: Making room to read
1. The Social entrepreneur is John Wood.
2. The problem identified the necessity of education for young children in Nepal.
3. Name of organization started is called "Room to Read"
4. The program had helped established 1,300 libraries in Nepal. Not only was it a program that provided books, it had evolved into a project that meets all academic needs for the children. From building schools to offering scholarships.
5. Local component is providing an education opportunity for the young children; especially girls.
6. Community own the process because the programs are run by Nepalese.
 
Evelyn Rodriguez
Professor Sabir
English 201A
20 October 2010

1. The social entreprenuer profiled is Kailash Satyarthi.

2.The problem that Kailash identifies is slaves owed by the Indian mafia.

3.The organization he started was Bachpan Bachao Andolan (BBA) and South Asian Coalition on Child Servitude (SACCS).

4.He tries to each the slave community the importance of education.

5.Kailash gives the people thing that they didn't have before for example food and education.

6.The community owns the process by being themselves and because they can make a difference.
 
Adalie Villalobos
Professor Sabir
English 201B
27 October 2010

Kikuo Morimoto

1. The social entrepreneur profiled is Kikuo Morimoto
2. The problem that Morimoto identified was the tradition that a mother and daughter could weave silk and that the tradition would be taken away from everyone.
3. The name of the organization is The Silk Grandmothers
4. The relationship between them is being able to bond, and work hard together to get what they felt they deserved. They decided to address this issue because silk weaving was one of the key things that helped the Cambodian people to survive easier.
5. The local component is silk weaving.
6. The community owns the process because someone from the community has done something for all of them. He is giving back to the community from which he has come from.
 
Vanessa Dilworth
Professor Sabir
English 201A8-8:50am
27 October 2010

E-Waste: Technology Dumping Grounds

In the documentary, Ghana: A Digital Dumping Ground, I learned about the cause
of waste in Third World countries, as well the effects of this business. Countries such as Ghana, China, and India, are mile long electronic waste fields, which are supplied by industrial countries like America, the UK, and Germany. These countries are technologically advance and encounter a lot of computer waste so they, in an effort to save their own land, ship them to these countries whose people ravage through them collecting scrap metal and gold, developing health defects because of the toxic fumes that surround them.

The devastating dumping was documented by an undergraduate group of journalists, from The University of British Colombia. They documented the project in an effort to bring awareness to this secret dumping. They encountered tons of toxic computer waste, and children as well as adults search through the rubble in search of golden scraps and iron. The waste is shipped in containers that are labeled as donations, only fifty percent are reusable. In China, the dumping is big business and Hong Kong makes a huge profit from it, even though there are laws to stop this type of behavior there. In Ghana, mostly children scavenge for scraps and India has created a lot of technical waste themselves, so they are beginning to recycle. They turn the scraps into eco-friendly watches and other accessories. The recycling hasn’t stopped everyone from this hazardous job. One man recounted, “Sometimes the fumes make me sick, but if I don’t do it I don’t get paid.”
 
Dalina Le

Professor Sabir

English 201A

28 October 2010

Frontline Videos:

Sierra Leone: Yeabu’s Homecoming
1.Jenny Chu
2.Identifies Obstetic Fistula
3.International Medicou Corps (IMC)
4.As a person, especially a woman, going through such painful and life threatening problems, makes them want to help to save a life.
5.Overcoming the stigma of childbirth injury is the local component.
6.The community owns the process by trying to keep them becoming less infected by getting the help when it’s there.

Egypt: Middle East, Inc.
1.Gita Pullapilly
2.Indentified roofless and rootless kids who stay in the street.
3.New Life Children’s Home
4.Depression of kids in the streets when they should be in school and in homes make them feels more sympathy.
5.The local component is the kids that are in the streets.
6.The community owns the process because they are the ones that go through the difficulties of having children and making it through what they kids can.

Mexico: Crimes at the Border
1.Sachi Cunningham
2.Indentifies the difficulty of one’s girl life who has a lot ahead of her including difficulties
3.Room to Read
4.The relationship they have with this girls like this is helping and evaluating how they develop and what they are able to do.
5.The girl’s smartness and commitment to school and how much they have in their future
6.The community owns the process by educating the kids and helps those that want to become something more than what they have now.
 
Thu Houang
Professor Wanda Sabir
English 201A (8-8:50AM)
30 October, 2010

Vietnam: Wheels of Change
1) The two entrepreurs are Ralf Hotchkiss and Toan Nguyen.
2) The problem were the people that was having trouble walking needed a better wheelchair s to make their lives easier since they are the one that is spending every second on the wheelchair.
3) The name of the organization is Whirlwind Wheelchair.
4) In the community, Toan Nguyen was the one that introduce the new wheelchairs for the people that was having trouble getting up and down the wheelchair by themselves. Another issue was that lots of people in Vietnam were middle or lower class and not much was able to affort the “better” wheelchair. Toan Nguyen made a decision that if he use the cheaper materials but still have the same function then everyone will be able to affort them without worrying about anything.
5) The relationship between the community was pretty close, everyone was helping each other especially for the one that need the most.
6) Ralf Hotchkiss and Toan Nguyen worked together to make Toan Nguyen have the materials and make sure that everything was possible to build. Since Toan Nguyen have a place to make is possible and Ralf Hotchkiss’ knowledge.
 
Thu Houang
Professor Wanda Sabir
English 201A (8-8:50AM)
30 October, 2010

South Africa: Inside the Cycle of Rape
1) The entrepreur is Elena Ghanotakis.
2) The problem that South Africa having were women being rape all the time by men because the men thinks that its the everday “thing”.
3) The name of the organization is National Department of Correctional.
4) The reationship in the community is that no one was willing to standing up for women because women were known as the weak one in African tradition.
5) The local coponenent were the policement tried to best to arrest the men that broke the law, but there were too many arrest.
6) By arresting the one that did not follow the rules or laws, but there are no guarantee that this situation will stop.
 
Thu Houang
Professor Wanda Sabir
English 201A (8-8:50AM)
30 October, 2010

The Carbon Hunters
1) The entrepreur is Mark Schapiro.
2) The problem that Schapir idendifying is that when he walk deeper into the forest, he found there are more carbons inside that can make the millions.
3) The name of the organization is The Nature Conservancy.
4) The relationship in the community does not care much about the nature and leaving the forest as it is does not make the world a better place Schapiro stated.
5) The local component only cares if the environment are damaged because no everyone in the world cares about the nature.
6) The community started to chop down and sells to companies for goods such as oil. This can help the economies goes up because there are wealthy people out there that willing to buy them .
 
Joanne Africano
Professor Sabir
English 201A 8-8:50am
30 October 2010

1. The social entrepreneur is Ralf Hotchkiss
2. He fixed up wheel chairs to tackle hard curbs in other countries. It was called the RoughRider.
3. His organizations is called the Whirlwind Wheelchair Network.
4. His relationship with the community is he tries to help out with his country as well as other countries having difficult time with this situation, which is having uneven pavements and crappy wheelchairs.
5. The local component is that he has the charisma into making this wheelchair better than ever.
6. Hotchkiss wanted to help with others and their disabilities. That is why he crated this wheelchair.
 
Joanne Africano
Professor Sabir
English 201A 8-8:50am
30 October 2010

1. The entrepreneur is Purnima McCutcheon.
2. The problem was that a tsunami had his in India and she went to go help fix it up.
3. He group is called Architecture for Humanity.
4. She was living in America for 14 years, and after the tsunami had hit, she moved back to India to help rebuild. She asked the community to draw what the needed, such as schools, bathrooms, etc.
5. McCutcheon wanted to let know that a buliding can make a difference. The motto of her group was "Design Like You Give a Damn".
6.With the community’s approval, curved walls of the new village hall start to take its shape. Local workers are hired and start the construction, making an income and a sense of ownership. The whole building will cost less than $6,000.
 
Joanne Africano
Professor Sabir
English 201A 8-8:50am
30 October 2010

1. The entrepreneur is Janet Tobias.
2. She and others had created a five-year plan to help fix the streets of Rwanda.
3. Her project was called Millennium Village Project which was a plan launched by The Earth Institute at Columbia University.
4. The project is improving many lives in Africa. They wanted to help get a move on in their country and improve their living conditions.
5. They believe that helping them and with the five-year plan, it will improve the lives and living conditions of everyone in Africa.
6. In some countries, after a while, they started charging for certain things, such as in rwanda, fertilizer was free, whereas in Kenya, people had to pay with it using loans. So each millennium village area was different when if came for them getting their goods.
 
Adalie Villalobos
Professor Sabir
English 201B(8-9a.m)
30 October

1. The social entrepreneur is Kailash Satyarthi.

2.Kailash Satyarthi indentified child slavery and labor.

3. The name of the organization is South Asia Coalition on Child Servitude (SACCS).

4. The relationship they have with the community is trying to help child slavery.

5. The local component is to help make those involved in child slavery to get out and recover.

6. The community owns the process because they're trying to help their own people.
 
Adalie Villalobos
Professor Sabir
English 201B(8-9a.m)
30 October

1.The social entreprebeur is Kikuo Morimoto.

2. The issue that was identified was a family tradition getting taken away.

3.The name of the orginization is The Silk of Grandmothers.

4. Moritmoto started SACCS which hired 400 employess and paid them. He chose to do this because he couldn't stand the fact that this tradition was going to get taken away.

5. The local component is silk weaving.

6.The community own the process by giving back to those who live in the community.
 
Adalie Villalobos
Professor Sabir
English 201B (8-9a.m)
31 October 2010

1.The social entreprenuer is Father Koshy.

2. The problem identified is that Koshy believes that the division between the rich and the poor in india is constantly growing.

3.The name of the orginization is the New Life Childrens Home.

4.Koshy started the orginization by getting support from the indian government and raising money.

5.The local component is hiring people who need a chance in life.

6.The community owns this process because the children are seeking help and are trying to better themselves.
 
Reyva Jugarap
Professor Sabir
English 201A 8-850AM
31 October 2010


Cambodia: The Silk Grandmothers
Weaving a new life from a lost art

1. The social entrepreneur being profiled is Kikuo Morimoto.
2. The problem this person identified was that a family tradition was being taken away.
3. The name of the organization is The Silk Grandmothers.
4. He started a silk production where more than 400 people are working in and are getting paid $80-200 a month, instead of $300 a year.
5. The local component is silk weaving.
6. They own the process by giving back to the community and rediscovering honorable work.
 
Reyva Jugarap
Professor Sabir
English 201A 8-850AM
31 October 2010

Nepal: A Girl's Life
Making room to read

1. The social entrepreneur being profiled is John Wood.
2. The problem this person identified was that the country didn't just look beautiful, it was also a place of poverty. He noticed a rundown library and seemed to be empty.
3. The name of the organization he started was Room to Read.
4. When he returned the following year he had eight donkeys loaded with books. When he seen how thrilled the kids were, he decided to quit Microsoft and became the Andrew Carnegie of Nepal. They decided to address this issue because they want to make sure girls were given an equal education opportunity in their society which is favored by boys.
5. The local component is to provide more books so they are able to read.
6. The community owns the process by now having libraries.
 
Reyva Jugarap
Professor Sabir
English 201A 8-850AM
31 October 2010

India: A New Life
Getting children off the streets

1. The social entrepreneur being profiled is Father Koshy.
2. The problem this person identified was that children are living on the streets.
3. The name of the organization is the New Life Children’s Home.
4. Koshy employed former streets ad used them to reach out to the others.
5. The local component is reaching out to the street kids.
6. The community owns the process by thinking about others in the community.
 
Vanessa Dilworth
Professor Sabir
English 201A 8-8:50am
24 October 2010
Yeabu: A Survivor

In the country of Sierra Leone in a small West African town, a woman by the
name of Yeabu suffered from an obstructed pregnancy that rendered her with Vesico-
Vaginal Fistula. This occurred because in her rural town she couldn’t get the proper
healthcare she needed during her labor. Delivering her seventh child took three days and
during this time the tissue surrounding her bladder died as well as her child, causing her
to develop Vesico-Vaginal Fistula shortly after. When this occurred her friends and
village acquaintances shunned her and would not socialize with her anymore. She
became depressed because of her handicap and was isolated for four years from everyone
except her family.


Then one day the Chief of her village came to her and told her of a program
called Mercy Ships in the capital of Freetown that could potentially heal her. Mercy
Ships is a non-profit American Organization that operates in third world countries such as
Africa and Asia giving services to its inhabitants. Yeabu agreed to go and while there
met with the only doctor in the town that performed Vesico-Vaginal Fistula surgery, Dr.
Louise, is of African descent and gives back to her people by performing these
operations. This obstructed labor complex has stricken many women in Dr. Loiuse’s
community and out of those hundreds she is able to treat approximately three hundred
and fifty, with an eighty percent recovery rate.


After Yeabu’s surgery she was cured of her ailment and went back to her village
to be greeted by the only people who associated with her, her family. In a heart warming
statement at the end she says, “I knew one day God would heal me.”
 
Evelyn Rodriguez
Professor Sabir
English 201A
31 October 2010

Mexico:The Business of Saving Trees

1. The social entrepreneur profiled is Pati Ruiz.
2. The problem she identified was the pollution of Sierra Gorda.
3.Pati hasn't really stared an organization but she is working with non profits such as Earth Island Institute.
4.She went into the Sierra Gorda community and tries to educate them on saving the trees and how pollution is bad for the earth. She explains to them how trees help restore the polluted air.
5.The local component is that she is creating new jobs for the town people to be able to work and support their families.
6.The community owns the process because if they weren't willing to change the bad habits they had Sierra Gorda wouldn't be able to have sustainable jobs.

Sierra Leone: Yeabu’s Homecoming

1.The social entrepreneur profiled is Dr.Lewis
2.Dr.Lewis Identifies Obstetric Fistula
3.International Medicou Corps
4.Dr.Lewis tries to help out women who live in shame for not being able to control their urine.
5.The local component is to overcome the stigma of childbirth injury.
6.The community owns the process because if more women talk to each other and inform each other about the cure many more will be able to receive help and get cured.

South Africa: Inside the Cycle of Rape

1.The social entrepreneur is Chris Malagas
2.The problem he identifies is Rape
3.He runs a counseling program for sex offenders at Pollsmoor
4.Chris tries to help sex offenders understand that rape is a bad thing to do
5.The local component is to reduce rape in their community.
6.The community owns the process because if they would get more involved in trying to get sex offenders to get out of their bad habits, as soon as they got out of jail they would be changed men and wouldn't keep doing the same.
 
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