Professor Sabir's Posse

　　　Shuluo Fu
　　　Professor Sabir
　　　English 201A
　　　29 October 2012
　　　
　　　Stories of Social Entrepreneurs--Vietnam: Wheel Of Change
　　　This Video profiles a social entrepreneurs who donate themselves in the wheelchair in Vietnam: Ralf Hotchkiss, an engineering professor from San Francisco. The problem Mr. Hotchkiss identifies is that Vietnam is the country lack of a good set of wheelchair, which makes many disable people have a lot of difficulties on their dairy life. However, they still have working for finding a way to improve their disable people. They start a organization about making better wheelchairs which is named Toan Nguyen . He serves the community by designing better set of wheelchairs which will be more useful for local disable people. The relation between Hotchkiss and the community that he serves is good. He makes his effort to bring benefit to every local people is very grateful for him because him help them a lot. When it comes to the reasons why did people decide to address this issue, I think the Vietnam is a developing country which has many shortcoming in term of disable people's life. This situation need to be payed attention by somebody who have ability to help them. Meanwhile, they want to record and pride what Hotchkiss did for the local people, for anything he help them. The community own some process by providing the locally available materials and inexpensive labor. Meanwhile, they help the organization to raise the money and market the chair. Therefore, they are integral to the success of Hotchkiss's business. There are some challenges faced by the community and Hotchkiss. The first one is that the local community have not yet success to carried out some policies which is beneficial for disabled people. The local people who building thing lack of the concept that it should convenient for anyone. The second challenges is that Vietnam is a developing country so that many disable people are not afford to their own wheelchairs. The market is small. The measurable outcomes is that a self-sustaining competitive industry of wheelchair building is developing so that many people will invest into wheelchairs and work on it.
　　　
　　　Works Cited
　　　Vietnam:Wheel Of Change, www.pbs.org. Web. 29 October 2012
 

　　　Shuluo Fu
　　　Professor Sabir
　　　English 201A
　　　29 October 2012

Stories of Social Entrepreneurs--Mexico: The Business of Saving Trees
　　　This video is profiled a female social entrepreneur who work on changing the environment of Mexico. Her name is Pati Ruiz Corzo. The problem Corzo identifies is that the world recently become increasingly aware of global warming. During the carbon trading, the environment of some countries like Mexico are suffering the destruction from it. Reducing the carbon becomes the main goal of protecting Mexico. The name of organization Corzo started is Sierra Gorda Biosphere Reserve, a area served the City by protecting the ecosystem. She started to work to restore the forest and create new job for local people living in the biosphere. She has close relationship with the people in the city, especially with those children. She also gain the supporting from the local government, which setting up a kind of partnership with it. She provides job for the local people. She is the director and another persons are the member of this organization. That is the relationship between Corzo and the community. I think the reasons why Jason Margolis decide to address this issue are that he expect that more people will pay more attention on our ecosystem and play their role on saving trees in our country. He want to use the experiences of Corzo in Mexico to tell everyone that we can find out some ways which are both useful for running business and protecting environment. The government in the community provides the channel for Corzo and help her to raise money. The supporting from local people is the other integral to the success of her business. The challenges faced by Corzo are that: Some people does not care about the carbon pollution. They lacked of money before they started. The situation of landscape in community is terrible. The measurable outcomes are that Corzo success to create the forest and provide new job for local people by developing the Eco-industry like Eco-tourism. Meanwhile, she teach the new generation, the children, how tree can protect the ecosystem and how to protect their tree in the community.
　　　
Works Cited
Jason Margolis. Mexico: The Business of Saving Trees. www.pbs.org. Web. 29 October,2012
　　　
 

　　　Shuluo Fu
　　　Professor Sabir
　　　English 201A
　　　2 November 2012
Stories of Social Entrepreneurs--Ecuador: Country Doctor
According to the video, the social entrepreneur profiled is Dr. Edgar Rodas. The Person profiled identifies to be a doctor who help pool people in Ecuador with his medicine technology. He created a organization named "Cinterandes Foundation" in 1995 with a volunteer group of surgeons who shared his ideals. The people in the community he serves is his patients but all of them cannot afford to medicine cares because of poverty. I think the reason Mike Seely decides to address this issue is that the people in the region of Amazon needs more modern medical treatments and help from doctors. He is calling for more people help those poor people in term of their health. The local community provides more supports to the organization. It helps Rodas to set up the connection with the local people along the river. The biggest challenge Rodas faced is the traditional concepts of local people because most of people only accept the traditional way. They even do not know about the another medical treatments expect from their own ways. The poverty in this region is the other challenges for them. Fortunately, the measurable outcome is that "Cinterandes" have not only succeed to release about 5,200 kinds of operations but also provided medical care for exceed 50,000 people in the area pf Ecuador.


Works Cited
Mike Seely. Ecuador: Country Doctor. www.pbs.org. Web. 2 November, 2012

 

Caroline Lee
Professor Sabir
English201A
6 Nov 2012
Vietnam: Wheels of Change
The story is about a country called Vietnam, a developing country and lack of a good set of wheels. Ralf Hotchkiss, an engineering professor from San Francisco who has been thinking about designing a good wheelchair for disable for a long time. He identifies that there is lack of functional wheels in Vietnam which makes the Vietnam’s disabled people put up with a lot of difficulties in their entire life. He tries to find out some ways to improve things for disabled people and tries ti make a better wheelchair for his own use.
In 2006, he approached Toan Nguyen, a factory owner, to talk about producing wheelchairs in Vietnam. They have started an organization named as RoughRider , using locally available materials and inexpensive labor. They sever the community by designing a good set of wheelchair for the disabled people because most of the streets or places aren’t wheelchair friendly and they could only mostly stay in their small apartment. They try to make to wheelchair more comfortable, sturdy, stable and make the disabled easier to get up to the wheelchair. Also, after Thanh tried the new wheelchair, he said it wouldn’t block his arm movement. For Hotchkiss, he has brought his wheelchair concepts to several factories aboard through Mexico, Iraq and South Africa through partnerships.
To the local community, they are still lack of facilities and concepts to improve the living the living area for the disabled people. When they are building, they never recognize if it is convenient for everyone include the disabled. To the entrepreneur, Vietnam is still a developing country and has a lot of shortcomings. There is not a good place to make the market on wheelchairs because the disabled cannot afford to buy their own wheelchairs. For Hotchkiss, he knows that he will not able to make a market in Vietnam, so he decides to develop a self-sustaining competitive industry of wheelchair building all over the world is the measurable outcome.
Works Cited
Vietnam:Wheel Of Change, www.pbs.org. Web. 6Nov 2012


 

Caroline Lee
Professor Sabir
English 201A
7 Nov 2012
Nepal: A Girl’s Life
Making room to read
The story is about a 9-year-old girl called Sabina Timilsina who lives in a village outside Kathmandu, the capital of Nepal. She is an extraordinary fortunate girl because she gets a full scholarship in a private school. Sabina’s benefactor is an American named John Wood, who started a literacy program called Room to Read.
Cunningham is the social entrepreneur in this story. He grew up in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where Carnegie made his fortune in the steel industry and then became one of the world’s leading philanthropists and a special patron of public libraries. The Room to Read program has already established more than 1,300 libraries and expending. It runs by Nepalese, and what started as a project to provide books has evolved into a full-scale educational campaign to build schools, publish children’s books, conduct writing workshops for kids, and offer scholarships. However, Wood and his team believed that they have a special responsibility to make sure girls are given an equal opportunity for education. Sabina is one of the lucky girl in this program who has given a full scholarship to extend her dream.
With so many problems facing developing countries like Nepal, most of the children could not even finish the primary level of education. Yet, Wood helps the children, especially girls, to get a scholarship to finish the highest education level that they can get. Also, in the developing countries has lack of labor who can work. Even they can get a job, they could only do the lowest level of work and earn so little money. Therefore, those programs can help then to improve their living.
Works Cited
Nepal: A Girl’s Life, www.pbs.org. Web. 7 Nov,2012

 

Ping Johnson
Professor Sabir
English 201A
8 Nov 2012

Response to the Vietnam: wheelchair of the change

In an interview with Frontline World Reporter Marjorie McAfee, Quan talkes about disvantage and concern of current wheelchair that he was riding such as, unsafety, inconvenience, difficulty to operate in many areas where he lives. Ralf Hotchkiss, a bay area engineer who spent time working on improving the design of wheelchair for his own purpose at the beginning ended up innovating Roughrider and providing free charge of design service to associated manufacturers. Ralf started business partnership with a Vietnam Manufacturer Toan Nguyen. With new innovated wheelchair, it is more applicable to operate in the rough areas. It is lighter but comfortable, flexible but safer. Most importantly, it is affordable by using the cheap local labor manufacturing in the third country. Through his Whirlwind Wheelchair Network and partnership with manufacturers, he raises money to help thousands of disable people around the world to get back to their mobile world. The mission of the organization is "to make it possible for every person in the developing world who needs a wheelchair to obtain one that will lead to maximum personal independence and integration into society." Amazingly to see that the disable people nowadays can participate in all kinds of sports by using Ralf's wheelchair. He brings far beyond Joyce to those unfortunate people who lose their mobility to move around back to their normal life. He makes wheelchair a possible business in the future.

Works Cited
Vietnam:Wheel Of Change, www.pbs.org. Web. 08 Nov 2012
Ralf,Hotchkiss. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralf_Hotchkiss web 08 Nov 2012

 

Ping Johnson
Professor Sabir
English 201 A
8 Nov 2012

Response to Frontline World Stories of SE--Ecuador: Country Doctors

Mike Seely, a local filmmaker who also works as a freelance was invited by Dr. Rodas, a leader of Cirterandes Foundation to this special trip to Ecuador. Mike witnessed Dr. Rodas and his team workers, a group of voluntary surgeons who persue the same dreams as Dr. Rodas and come all the way from America to Ecuador dedicate their lives to provide free health care service unconditionally to Ecuadorians, those who live in remote countryside areas with poverty condition. Dr. Rodas and his teams bring hope and life to the most needed patients who suffer from acute or chronic physical illness, who can't afford to seek medical attention in their country. This group of people take up one third of the total population in Ecuador.
According to the report, over 50,000 Ecuadorians benefit from Dr. Rodas's Organization. 5,200 operations has been carried out since 1995. The foundation is supported by private funding from the United States and European countries. Just like every other voluntary foundation, Dr. Rodas and his team face challenge of shortage of funds. Even though, he manages to expand the program. He encourages his son, a medical surgeon who lives in Florida to join his mission. He believes that he should give everything back to the community where he come from. That is what he has persistently devoted to in his life.

Works Cited
Ecuador:Country Doctors. http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/rough/2007/06/ecuador_health.html web 08 Nov 2012
 

Ping Johnson
Professor Sabir
English 201A
10 Nov 2012

Response to Frontline--India: "Design Like You Give A Damn

Frontline/World reporter Singeli Agnew traveled to India and profiled this report based on her witness of the reconstruction work after devastating natural disaster Tsunami hit Tamil Nadu. Survivors face varies challenges in their lives. They desperately need consistent humanitarian assistance to rebuild their hopes reorganize their lives.
Purnima McCutcheon, an American architect who feels deeply sympathy for these particular groups gave up her own business in America and dedicates her life to help Indian refugees by reconstructing their shelters, places that provide dignity for their basic needs. Her innovative design serves the community with the most applicable, economic as well as environmentally sustainable impact. In four years, McCutcheon designed a total of twelves community buildings.The last one that she designed becomes the heart of village life. Many refugees are benefit and live comfortably in the building she designed. For McCutcheon, she gains rewarding and respect by helping those most needed devastating groups. She believes that she is doing something meaningful in her life.

Works Cited
India: "Design Like You Give A Damn http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/stories/india705/video/video_index.html web. 10 Nov 2012.
 

Caroline Lee
Professor Sabir
English 201A
11 Nov 2012

India: A New Life

The southern Indian city of Vijayawada is sitting about 190 miles from the booming high-tech center of Hyderabad and has a population of close to1 million. There are a large number of destitute adults and children live on the streets. Father Thomas Koshy, a social entrepreneur work with the street children began in 1989.
Anu Dasaka, an old friend of Father Koshy, started the New Life children’s Home from using money raised from the foreign donors and support from the Indian government. They help to protect those unprotected child on the street. Although life is harsh and dangerous on the street, it only takes a month for a child to become addicted hustling. They have been running the program for seventeen years and have helped more than twenty-five thousands children come off the street. In these years, the organization now runs twelve centers in the city, to shelter and educate both boys and girls.
The enormous social divide between the poor and the prosperous in India is growing wider. People will become rich of the advancement of information technology and computers; but still, there are also a lot of people who are becoming more and more marginalized. However, in a developing city, there are lack of sources to improve the citizens’ life.

Works Cited
India:A New Life, www.pbs.org/, 11 Nov 2012