Tuesday, October 25, 2011

 

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 11/10 (start 10/26). 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:
Scott Ramos
Professor Sabir
English 201 8-8:50

The social entrepreneur profiled is Pati Ruiz Corzo. She identified problems in Mexico such as wasting and carbon output. The organization she started is called Sierra Gorda Biosphere Reserve. The relationship with the community is very close, helping community members become involved and educated. This issue is being addressed because our world is leaving a huge carbon footprint, and organizations like the Biosphere Reserve are helping to slow down. Local citizens are heavily involved with planting trees, working in the Biospere and maintaining the land. The community owns the process because its in their communtiy, where they are living thus completely integrated in their lives.
 
Jessica Tam
Professor Sabir
English 201A 8-8:50
29 October 2011

Frontline World

The social entrepreneur profile is Ralf Hotchkiss. He designs wheelchairs. The relationship with the community is very close since he meets with the local citizens to meet their needs. This issue is being addressed because our society and around the world cannot afford a wheelchair. He has a big heart for inventing new wheelchairs for people. Local citizens are involved in contacting him to create a wheelchair to a person who needs one for different unfortunate circumstances. The community owns the process because they introduce Ralf Hotchkiss to their home to figure out how to fix the problem.
 
Selma Adam
Professor Wanda Sabir
English 201A 8-8:50am
29 October 2011

Frontline World

The social entrepreneur profile is seria sordin. She identified a serious problem in the whole world such as the graduated student without a job. In Egypt she started an organization called Injaz. The organization helps the graduated student without jobs to start their own work. The relationship to the community is very close since she helps decrease the amount of unemployed people. This issue is being addressed because the community need like this organization to decrease the amount of unemployed graduated student. Local citizens are involved because they are the the essential ingredient in this process. The community owns the process because it's in their community, where they can start a good work with good profit.
 
Selma Adam
Professor Wanda Sabir
English 201A 8-8:50am
29 October 2011

Frontline World

The social entrepreneur profile is Dr. Marc Lieberman. He identified a big problem in Tibet. He started an organization called Eye Camp. It's nonprofit organization. He do a surgery for nomad people for nothing. As a nomad, they spend long hours in the sun looking after the animals. The sun causes blindness for them. The relationship to the community is very close since he helps cure people for nothing. This issue is being addressed because the community need like this organization to decrease the amount of blindness people around t he world. Local citizens are involved because they are part of this process. The community owns the process because it's in their community, where they can get a surgery for nothing.
 
Selma Adam
Professor Wanda Sabir
English 201A 8-8:50am
29 October 2011

Frontline World

The social entrepreneur profile is John Wood. He identified a problem that many poor countries suffered from. In Nepal he started an organization that called Room to Read. He saw that many children couldn't afford to go to school and those rural schools had a chronic shortage of books. It spurred woods to start Room to Read, a literacy program that now helps educate millions of children. The relationship to the community is very close since he helps erase illiteracy. This issue is being addressed because the community need like this organization to erase illiteracy. Local citizens are involved because they are the ones that being educated. The community owns the process because it's in their community, where they get education.
 
Michelle Nam
Professor Wanda Sabir
English 201A 8-8:50am
30 October 2011

Frontline World

The social entrepreneur is on Dr. Marc Lieberman. He have started an organization called Eye Camp and he have been identified a problem in Tibet . It's nonprofit organization. He do a surgery for nomad people for nothing. Spending a long time in the sun searching for animals. The relationship to the community is very close with him. The organization for the community have been decreasing and the amount of people being blind and the local citizen are being involved because they want to be the part of this. They try to do something.
 
Jessica Tam
Professor Wanda Sabir
English 201A 8-8:50am
30 October 2011

Frontline World

The social entrepreneur profile is Luis Szaran. He identified a problem in Paraguay. He is a famous musician who helps poor and abandoned children. He started an organization called Sonidos de la Tierra in english it's called Sounds of Hope. He was raised in a loving home to give back, he wanted to strengthen the community to build it up. The relationship with the community is very close they find him to teach their children. This issue is being addressed because he
has a passion for music to spend time teaching children of poor children. Local citizens are mainly involved because they are part of the solution for this process to work. The community owns the process because its in their community where music is important to have music as part of their lives that will have an impact on them towards a better future in life.
 
Corazon Tinio
Professor Wanda Sabir
English 201A 8am
27 October 2011
   
    I watched the documentary of India reported by Gita Pullapilly. 
Foundation started by father Thomas Koshy who is a catholic and join venture with friend Anu Dasaka a psychologist and high-caste Hindu in  1989. The organizations called New Life Home Or Navajeevan BaLa Bhavan. They rescue street kids. They  rehabilitate kids from street life, feed and educate kids. These kids are orphan or have been abandoned by their parents.  Father Koshy saw the growing problem  in India, he was very concerned and bother by how these kids live and remember the Don Basco teaching about love, who inspired him and  also challenged by Anu. The shelter receive government funding and some donations. The have helped over 25000 street kids and have 12 school all over Nijayawada. Father Koshy helps kids battle street addiction by rehabilitating them(former street kids that has gone through 6 months of training) and make them frontline social workers. They(kids) have immediate access to kids and kids comes to them immediately. They(kids) monitor the railways and hiding places of kids once they called homes. 
 
Jessica Tam
Professor Wanda Sabir
English 201A 8-8:50 am
31 October 2011

Frontline World

The social entrepreneur profiled is Erdenchimeg, (did not mention her last name). She is from Mongolia. About half of Mongolian's population'sdaily routine is nomadic herding which is to travel from one place to another to take care of animals for a living. She works with farm animals and mine for gold for money to support her family. The organization she works for is Satellite television. It is a nomadic lifestyle to support animals from being unhealthy. The relationship with the community is very close because herding families look after each other's animals. Local citizens are strongly involved in working with the animals daily chores. The community owns the process because they trade animals in order to get survive in life.
 
Manuel Flores
Professor Sabir
English 201A 8-8:50
31 October 2011

The social entrepreneur profiled is Ralf Hotchkiss. He is a wheel chair designer. He talks to the people from the community to help them with there specific needs. The name of the organazation he started was called the RoughRider’s. Since he rides a wheelchair as well he serves the community and helping others in the best way he can.
He decided to address the issue because he knows that alot of people cant afford there own wheel chair and they also, dont make it to the market. He helps the locals in best way posible. the community own's the process because his workshops are located there and thats where he works.
 
Manuel Flores
Professor Sabir
English 201A 8-8:50
31 October 2011

Frontline World


The social entrepreneur profiled is Ralf Hotchkiss. He is a wheel chair designer. He talks to the people from the community to help them with there specific needs. The name of the organazation he started was called the RoughRider’s. Since he rides a wheelchair as well he serves the community and helping others in the best way he can.
He decided to address the issue because he knows that alot of people cant afford there own wheel chair and they also, dont make it to the market. He helps the locals in best way posible. the community own's the process because his workshops are located there and thats where he works.
 
Manuel Flores
Professor Sabir
English 201A 8-8:50
31 October 2011

Frontline World

The social entrepreneur profiled is John Nevado. The farms are unfair and they dont pay the workers. there organazation is a natural one and they are all organic. There community is very bad they are very poor and dont have a lot of money. They wanted to address the issue because they its healthier and they had a high demand.The local component is the bee's and the conditions of the work. The community owns the process because they are the locals and they help run the city.
 
Aman Bharji
Professor Sabir
Ebglish 201B 8to850
7 Ocotber 2011

Frontline World
1.Who is the social entrepreneur profiled? The social entrepreneur is Ralph Hotchkiss is an engineering professor at San Francisco State.
2.What problem did the person profiled identify? The problem he identified was Wheel chair riders trouble on the rocky and bumpy streets of vietnam.
3.What is the name of the organization they started? World-wind wheelchair network
4.Describe their relationship to the community that they serve? Their relationship to the community is very emotional and kind because of the effort they put into making their wheelchairs user friendly to fit the roads.
Why they decided to address this issue? They decided to address this issue because hospital wheelchairs are not made to be on bumpy,muddy , and sandy textures.
5.What is the local component? In this case, there is not local component because The manufacturer Is world wind wheelchairs which isn't in Vietnam.
6.How does the community own the process?The community receives wheelchairs from a foundation because wheelchair users can not buy their own wheelchairs. World Wind wheelchairs raises money to purchase the wheelchairs to send to Third world countries and the Vietnam's community distributes the wheelchairs to people who are in need of them.
 
Aman Bharji
Professor Sabir
Ebglish 201B 8to850
7 Ocotber 2011

Frontline World/India 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? Rebuilding the community for long term purposes after a tsunami hit east india 4 years ago.
3.What is the name of the organization they started? The name of the organization is Architecture for Humanity.
4.Describe their relationship to the community that they serve? Their relationship to the community haas grown with all they have done
making plans and rebuilding their community with new buildings has gave the people hope. 4.Why they decided to address this issue? they decided to address this issue because for Purnima McCutcheon,it has always been her aspiration to help a community on a personally meaningful level and the architecture for humanity wanted to build to make a difference.
5.What is the local component?The local component is back in San Francisco when The Architecture for Humanity raises money and cuts through the red tape to make sure the buildings break down.
6.How does the community own the process?the community owns the process by hiring local workers to build the village hall generating income and a sense of ownership
 
Aman Bharji
Professor Sabir
Ebglish 201B 8to850
7 Ocotber 2011

Frontline World/Mexico Business of saving the trees

1.Who is the social entrepreneur profiled?Pati Ruiz Corzo is the director of the Sierra Gorda Biosphere Reserve
2.What problem did the person profiled identify?the forest was becoming dead and mis treated iwth all the locals dumping garbage into the dams,and she's trying beginning to transform the once-depleted landscape into a thriving habitat with fertile topsoil, a replenished water table and an abundance of newly planted vegetation.
3.What is the name of the organization they started? they are in the process of developing eco-tourism industry with rustic lodge accommodations and craft shops for local artisans and Earth Island Institute,
4.Describe their relationship to the community that they serve? their relationship with the community and the country is very positive because saving the trees and planting new ones can help Mexico and the community gain profit and more jobs so the men won't have to seek out to the states to find work.
5.What is the local component?The local componet is In San Francisco , Earth Island Institute where they let people donate money to help causes like this one , which they mostly make their money online
6.How does the community own the process?The mexican government made the Sierra Gorda a protected region and the communities locals are being paid to plant more trees in the region which will create jobs and sell carbon in a billion dollar industry
 
Jasmine Guillot
Professor Sabir
English 201B 8-8:50
08 November 2011

The social entrepreneur profiled is Josh Rutkins. He wanted to eliminate the harsh poverty such as illness, no shelter, no food, and more. The name of the organization is the Millenium Villages Prooject. The relationship with the community is close because the different families try to help each other and trust Rutkins with trying to help save them from another epidemic and also provide them with food. This issue is being adressed because people should think about saving children from disease and give them the health they need. Local citizens are involved because they believe that every one should have health care. 194 women have joined a basketweaving program and other businesses to help the Minaje village and other villages and countries. The community owns this process because there are businesses that take place to help make this process. The village not only participates in this but locals do as well.
 
Sody Enkhbayar
Professor Sabir
English 201A 8-8:50
9 November 2011

The social entrepreneur profiled is Pati Ruiz Corzo she is the founder of Sierra Gorda Biosphere Reserve. Pati identified the problems in Mexico; the people living there were dumping their garbage’s into open wilderness, and causing it to be a wasteland with no forests and no fresh water. The relationship with the community is very close, helping community members become involved and educated. Jobs can be offered in their villages for men and woman. This issue is being addressed because there are places in the world where people are dumping their wastes to forests and rivers, and to be living around it can be harmful to one’s health. And thus, organizations like the Biosphere Reserve are helping to slow down. The community owns the process because it’s in their community, and they must do whatever it takes for it to be cleaned and have a better future.
 
Sody Enkhbayar
Professor Sabir
English 201A 8-8:50
9 November 2011

The social entrepreneur is Ralph Hotchkiss, and he is an engineering professor at San Francisco State. The problem he identified was Wheel chair rider’s has trouble on the rocky and bumpy streets of Vietnam. The name of the organization he started was World-wind wheelchair network. Their relationship to the community is very strong and positive because of the effort they put into making ones wheelchair user friendly to fit the different types of roads. They decided to address this issue because simple regular wheelchairs can only be ridded on normal terrain only. There is not local component because the manufacturer is not in Vietnam.
The community receives wheelchairs from a foundation because wheelchair users can not afford their own wheelchairs. The World Wind Wheelchair raises money to purchase the wheelchairs to send to anywhere around the world.
 
Sody Enkhbayar
Professor Sabir
English 201A 8-8:50
9 November 2011

The social entrepreneur is Dr. Marc Lieberman. He identified a big problem in Tibet and started an organization called Eye Camp. He does a surgery for nomad people for no income. Nomads, they spend long hours in the sun. The sun can cause serious issues such as blinding the eye. The relationship to the community is very close since he helps people. This issue is being addressed because the community needed an organization to decrease the amount of blindness people around t he world. Local citizens are involved because they are the ones that are getting the surgery done on themselves. The community owns the process because it's in their community.
 
Markese Bell
Mrs. Sabir
English 8:8:50am

The social entrepreneur profile is Ralf Hotchkiss. He is an entrepreneur who designs wheelchairs. He was very active in the community where he want do all he can to help people in need. He knew that many people wasnt able to afford a wheelchair.He wanted to do whatever it took to change that. So what he did, was crete a new wheelchair for people in need. he was more than happy to show people who to use it and he became a hero to many of them.
 
Keno Mapp II
Professor Sabir
English 201A 1:30-3:20
7 November 9, 2011

Flowers

1. The entrepreneur John Nevado is profiled as a god sent, for the Ecuadorian flower industry, Also a leader in the new way to go about owning and operating a flower farm.

2. The problem that the owner of Novato Roses identifies is the abuse of the native Ecuadorian workers and there envierment. Also the union (worker laws) of past flower farmers.

3. The names of the organizations John Nevado started are Navato Roses and far trade witch he helped bring to the people of Ecuador.

4. Their relationship with the community of Ecuador seems to be a very profitable and helpfully one, giving more focus on the workers wrights and needs such as providing daycare for workers children.

5. The local component is Ecuador and its people having one safer working conditions two the ability to pioneer a change three to unavoidably change the way flower farms run from now on and four the way the world intern looks at buying flowers.

6. The community owns this process by giving it there approval and participation in the loan program set up with their help.
 
Keno Mapp II

Professor Sabir

English 201A 1:30-3:20

7 November 9, 2011 Mini Moguls

1. The social entrepreneur profiled in this film is Soraya salti she is part of Injaz a junior academic program.

2. The problem that the person profiled identified is, even the college grads in her country are not finding jobs there is an average wait of 5 years for a good job. And they are giving up on the fact that it is worth getting a degree.

3. The name of the organization that was started is Injaz

4. The relationship with the community that they serve is fluctuation on one hand the youth of find it very helpful and downright run while the parents of these children are somewhat skeptical.

5. The local component that this organization targets is its young men and women. Soon to setoff in the business world.

6. The community owns this process by participating and getting involved. Such as the business men and women that judge its competition.
 
Keno Mapp II

Professor Sabir

English 201A 1:30-3:20

7 November 9, 2011

Architect

1. The social entrepreneurs profiled in this film are Kate stohr and Camron sinelar.

2. The problem that they identify is resurrecting city’s and villages that has fallen victim to a tragedy.

3. The name of the organization they started is architects for humanity.

4. Their relationship with the community they serve is great, the people fell a since of ownership in the work that is being done.

5. The local component is just that it is the component they say what the need out of these structures and the architects build it and if the people don’t like it they go back to the drawing board.

6. The community owns this process in every way they lay out there needs and wants and at the end if they don’t fell like their needs are met the planes will be revised and rethought.
 
Manuel Flores
Professor Sabir
English 201A 8-8:50
09 November 2011

Frontline World

The social entrepreneur profile is John Wood. He identified a problem that many poor countries suffered from. In Nepal he started an organization that called Room to Read. He saw that many children couldn't afford to go to school and those rural schools had a chronic shortage of books. It spurred woods to start Room to Read, a literacy program that now helps educate millions of children. The relationship to the community is very close since he helps erase illiteracy. This issue is being addressed because the community need like this organization to erase illiteracy. Local citizens are involved because they are the ones that being educated. The community owns the process because it's in their community, where they get education.
 
James Kwon
Professor Sabir
English 201A 8-8:50

The social entrepreneur profiled is Ralf Hotchkiss. He is a wheelchair designer. he helps the community the best way he can as he also rides a wheelchair. the community can get what they desire on the wheelchair as his shops are local and they can go through the process of the making of the wheelchair to fit their needs.
 
James Kwon
Professor Sabir
English 201A 8-8:50

The social entrepreneur is Dr. Marc Lieberman. identifying a problem in Tibet he started an organization called Eye Camp. He does a surgery for people that cant afford it. spending too much time in the sun. can cause serious harm such as blindness. Local citizens are involved because they are the ones that are getting the surgery done.
 
Jasmine Guillot
Professor Sabir
English 201B 8-8:50

The social entrepreneur profiled is Patrick Ball. He and other investigators came to Guatemala to wonder what happened to people after the Guerilla Movement and to help clean documents from the Guatemela police files. The organization that is helping Guatemela is Benetech. The relationship with the community is not very close. Many people of the community did not feel happy with the investigators who were trying to find out secrets from the files. There were death threats sent to the archives. The issue is beig adressed so then there will be justice between Guatemela and the government. Local citizens are joining the archive project to find out what happened and what the government is trying to hide. The community owns the process because they are allowing others to come and help them learn more about their history and government.
 
Jasmine Guillot
Professor Sabir
English 201B 8-8:50

The social entrepreneur profiled is Soraya Salti. She wants to guide Arab youth to business and become social entrepreneurs. She also wants them to be able to have jobs and still have an education. The organization that she created is INJAZ, which is a program that wants to develop business leaders,especially in Egypt.
The relationship with the community is close because many young people are trying to join this program to help change education for the youth. Also, they want to be able to become successful businesswomen and men. The issue is being adressed because it will help young people in Cairo know how they want to achieve in life and know how to become successful in selling and making things. Local citizens are involved by judging and looking at the different businesses/organizations. The community owns this process because the youth of Cairo are able to make teams and try to make their businesses become famous and successful. It is also focused more on the Cairo community so then the youth will be more educated and want to have a career.
 
Arthur Gilbert
Professor Sabir
English 201B 1:30 to 3:20 PM

Eye Camp
The article Eye Camp by reporter Isaac Solotaroff who is the social entrepreneur, explains the rough living of the people of Tibet that have limited access to healthcare: most of the people end up getting cataracts, especially those from very poor communities. There is no local component. In Isaac’s film, he shows the evidence of their lack of healthcare and their tough life.
There is a doctor named Marc Lieberman that is an enterprising American Ophthalmologist since 1995. He travels to Tibet to operate the mobile eye camps twice a year. Lieberman’s main objective is to train the Tibet medical community to do the eye camps themselves, so that they would not need western assistance. A lot of people that heard about the western doctor’s arrival, they came in huge crowds to be treated, especially those that could not see.
In hopes to gain support from other countries, Solotaroff made his film to portray the hard life of Tibet. Tibet has a lack of healthcare which many of the Tibetans needed. If it were not for his film, many people would not know of Tibet’s endangerment and its tough living.
 
Arthur Gilbert
Professor Sabir
English 201B 1:30 to 3:20 PM

Uganda: Out of the Wild
Social entrepreneur of this article is Serene Fang. She identified that there are diseases in Uganda that the Western medical facilities are not aware of, and also very rare. A Team from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention was sent to Uganda to neutralize this disease and find cures for people that have it. They have had some American tourists catch this disease and come back to the states, which could possibly spread into a pandemic if the disease is not neutralized. They decided to address this in order to give a heads up for everyone else. There is no local component. The community owns the process because they are being influenced by Westerners to become a better community, not being assisted.
 
Arthur Gilbert
Professor Sabir
English 201B 1:30 to 3:20 PM

Jamaica: Girl’s On Track
The social entrepreneur profiled in this article is Molly Snyder-Fink and Kiran Goldman. They identify that Jamaica is one of the world’s leading victors in track and field events in the Olympics. Girls and boys championship was formed since 1910 which hosts about 2000 athletes from 190 schools in Jamaica. They decided to address this issue because out of curiosity the people of the world want to know the secret to being so good in these events. There is no local component. The community owns the process because it is hosted by the community itself, funded by their own government.
 
Sabrina Ehrenfeld
Professor Sabir
English 201A 1:30-3:20

South Africa Drinking Water

In South Africa it’s very hard to find clean drinking water and 5 million people basically, have no access to safe water for themselves. A man named Trevor field is an entrepreneur who made his money in the advertising business and he feels like he should give something back, and is trying to solve South Africa’s problems. He created something called ‘The play pump’ which gives clean drinking water to South Africa. He found a way to solve the water problem that can pump 400 gallons per hour. Trying to find water in South Africa is very hard.

“The amount of time these women are burning up collecting water, they could be at home looking after their kids, teaching their kids, being loving mothers, "Field addresses to Costello and he wanted to find a solution to this torture of South African women transporting 40 pounds of water everyday. The kids play on this thing like a ‘Merry go around’ when indeed it is called a ‘Play pump’ which gives off safe and clean drinking water. The teacher addresses she didn’t know that the water was polluted. Play pump gets clean water from underground. The play pump can give water to 200,500 people.

The kids love playing on the ‘play pump’ which also, benefits everyone in South Africa. ‘The play pump’ is one of the most successful technologies to give water to the rural countries that are suffering from poverty. The plan is to put 4,000 play pumps by 2010 in South Africa for 10 million people. It really affected people that there was no clean water to drink from, and they never knew, until Trevor brought it up. Trevor brought up this issue because, he doesn’t think its fair, that innocent people are drinking dirty water, that can really harm them and there not realizing it, he wants to give back to the community in every way possible and he would like everyone’s support in it.
 
Sabrina Ehrenfeld
Professor Sabir
English 201A 1:30-3:20

Mexico and Saving Trees

In North Mexico City, in the Sierra Gorda biosphere reserve about the size of Rhode Island. It’s called a biosphere because, people live there. When Pati Ruiz Corzo a music teacher in the big city reported there was garbage everywhere, people put it in the river, which pollutes the water. She was concerned about the forests’ and the future for our people and she wanted to change all that. Pati’s answer was to make life works to save the forest.

Corzo wanted to restore the forest and create new jobs for people living in the biosphere. She created a carbon trading exchange called: ‘The new green exchange’. The Mexican government saved the biosphere a decade ago, and to save it was to save the trees and bring new ones to restore areas. Laura Perez was called in to restore areas. A man Jose Hernandez is being asked to plant trees. They wanted to turn the land into a forest.

The community is working hard to make sure trees are being planted. Pati explains how trees help fight global warming, and it absorbs carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Government wants to stop pollution and global warming. Pati has raised thousands of dollars to solve the planet with trees. Corzo estimated that her forest is worth 1.1 billion on the carbon exchange.

In Mexico there trying to remove green house gasses take care of global warming before it becomes a problem global. Source says the poorer countries should plant more trees, and protect existing ones. Source also, said in 2007 the carbon trading market was worth 60 billion according to the research firm point carbon. Jason Margolis reported a former school teacher in Mexico is using carbon trading to revitalize an entire region. This project helped the community in many ways, because trees are very helpful to people and the biosphere.
 
Sabrina Ehrenfeld
Professor Sabir
English 201A 1:30-3:20

Vietnam Wheels of Change

Vietnam is a country with constant motion. Juan Dien a wheelchair rider lost his legs in the war with early Cambodia in the early 1980’s. Thanh Giang helps build wheelchairs and is trying to find a way to make something new. Ralph Hotchkiss is an engineer professor at Sanfrancisco State and he’s trying to help design a new wheelchair, after becoming paralyzed in a motorcycle accident 30 years ago. Hotchkiss wanted to build a better wheelchair for his use and other peoples And he came up with a wheelchair called the ‘Rough Rider’ his new invention.

Ralph got ideas from around the world and got wheels from Zimbabwe. He wanted to see people be happy and comfortable with this new invention. He came up with it in a way that the wheelchair can hit anything but no tension. The ‘Rough Rider’ is supposed to help people ride better. Wheelchair users can’t afford to buy their own wheelchairs so Marc Krizack markets the chairs and raise the money so the chairs are sold.

They think the ‘Rough Rider’ is very strong and you can lean back without falling, it’s very smooth in the streets. Mark heard about Twons concerns and wanted to pay him a visit about wheelchair. Quan reports: “I fell once, because the ramp to the sidewalk was blocked, “he tells ‘Frontline/World’ reporter Marjorie McAfee. “I was going too fast, and the wheelchair hit and I flew forward. “Thanh wanted to help improve things for disabled people who are having a rough time with cheap wheelchairs that aren’t benefiting them.

They changed the foot rest, so for people it will be easier to get on and get off. Ralph has brought the chair to many rural countries that are suffering such as: Mexico, Iraq, and South Africa. The ‘Rough Rider’ is one of the most popular inventions in Vietnam. The name of the organization is ‘Whirlwind Wheelchair’.
 
Julio Orantes
Professor Wanda Sabir
English 201B 1:30-3:20pm
11 November 2011

Guatemala/Mexico Coffee Country

The video I watched was a story about two countries producing its own supply of
natural homemade organic coffee beans to make coffee. As I watched the video I see that
the people from Guatemala and Mexico was in a crisis because the price of high quality of
coffee was so poor that most farmers and family members was force to move and
abandoned their land. But the group of gourmet coffee importers advocate their fair trade
of helping by buying the coffee to make profit. The tasters and buyers and the indigenous
farmers are so what remote coffee growing regions to buy the high quality of coffee.

In Guatemala the people have their own tradition of growing their coffee beans and
as well in Mexico, but most likely Guatemala are coffee drinkers than Mexico. For
generations the families who grew their own coffee fleeing the fields for the city and the
border and the entire estates because of the situation of not being able to sale the coffee
because the quality of coffee wasn’t turning out as expecting the coffee buyers are
interesting buying good quality of coffee not just the taste. As the coffee importers were
taste testing the coffee that was grew from the farm lands were deciding whether the coffee
was good or bad determining the taste of it.

Most farm workers have grew more and produced coffee beans but the quality of
coffee wasn’t successful so most family members was forced to cross the border to find jobs
in the united states because of bad profit making of not being able to sale the coffee. The
only problem was the international coffee crisis mostly the coffee market wasn’t selling
enough and people wasn’t interesting buying coffee as much. Most coffee buyers are being
cheap ,but mostly Guatemala had a devastating low record of selling the coffee.
 
Julio Orantes
Professor Wanda Sabir
English 201B 1:30-3:20pm
21 November 2011

Mexico the saving trees

As I watch the video about Mexico well aware of the recently affects of global warming
spread through fields as well as carbon dioxide gas on trees. The entire company has grown more
of the ideas of trading carbon and getting rid of green house gases that causes global warming
effects in the farm fields. Mostly of the global warming is coming from the rivers in Mexico that
is field with garbage, some people have been dumping their garbage in the rivers when the
current is strong to drag the waste and on to the empty lands.

As soon as the nations changed throughout the regions the carbon emissions began to
affect the global marketing trade had brisk to the Europeans to New York business. Pati Ruiz
Coroz who is the director of the Sierra Gorda reserve to protected the area size of Mexico city.
When she left her teaching job she moved the region 25 years ago to organize a program to help
plant trees to keep the carbon dioxide gas away from the field to have less chance of the global
warming effects. Pati Ruiz Coroz’s job was to restore the lands that were empty and needed to be
filled with green trees.

Pati Ruiz Coroz encourage the people of Mexico to volunteer to help restore the empty
lands and a man named Jose Hernandez gets paid doing the job of planting trees. When the
workers doing their job by planting trees it helps keep the people around to help with the
program of free the carbon dioxide problem and the affects of global warming. The people’s job
is to grow and plant trees to restore the biosphere of a forest and fill up the empty lands of
mexico. Pati’s efforts are beginning to change of the once empty land and the thriving habit of
the fertile topsoil of planting more trees in lands.
 
Julio Orantes
Professor Wanda Sabir
English 201B 1:30-3:20pm
11 November 2011

The Ecuador Flower Power

The video I watched was a country of Ecuador the country who is famous of
growing their organic roses and flowers. As described the rose farms became more colorful
in the countryside of Ecuador. The weather conditions in Ecuador is the good season to
plant roses in a organic environment where the roses and flowers were free of pesticides to
keep the roses clean to sell in the markets. In order to keep the roses clean and free of
pesticides the farm workers have to wash themselves in order to work. Mostly the workers
have to wash their feet before stepping in the fields to keep away the diseases.

Over the past 10 years the fair trade has modeled and changed the coffee industry
across the Latin America. The fair trade has certified the flowers and been available across
Europe almost nearly a decade and they demand the United States and has pushed the
farm workers to grow more roses and to raise more fair labor benefits. Most of the people
from the U.S didn’t understand the conditions that is happening in Ecuador of the fields of
growing the roses. In the alternative way of the fair trade Ecuador is the second countries
to the available consumers to sell green roses in valentine’s day.

John Nevado a grower of roses from Latacunga 56 miles from Quito is one the
leaders of the fair trade movement took the tourists a tour around the rose farms and
explained to them that some of the practices took in care are not improving workers rights
such as not paying enough to workers who were working hard to grow roses in farm lands
,but the finances are not well being managed. The workers are using chili and garlic spray
to keep away the pesticides to maintain the flowers and roses clean.
 
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