Frontline World Cyber-Assignment Post(s)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?
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Ahu Yildirim
Prof. Sabir
English 1B
19 October 2010
Response to three Frontline World Assignments
#1-> India: Design Like u Give a Damn
1)Purnima McCutcheon is profiled as social entrepreneur.
2)She identified the destroyed village after tsunami in 2004 such as lack of sources for living, extremely hard living conditions, no houses.
3) The name of organization is “Architecture for Humanity”.
4)The founders of his organization are talented architectures the most who want to help people and work for humanity. They have a very close friendship with the community. They help people to build community centers, schools, hospitals, houses. They help to build civilization.
5)The local component is to build the building which will answer the need of community there.
6)The community has options. They can help the design and ask for change in the drawings, if they don’t like it. Architectures work adopts the community’s character. After all drawing is done, community help to build the projects for their civilization.
#2-> Vietnam: Wheels of Change
1)Ralf Hochkiss and Mark Krizack are profiled as social entrepreneurs.
2)They identified the difficulties of disable people’s with their wheel chairs. Ralf is an engineer, he uses his knowledge to create a new design wheel chair which is able to work well on rocky roads and dirt which he named “Ruff Rider”.
3)The name of organization is called Whirlwind Wheelchairs Inc.
Bishwojit Sharma
Professor Wanda Sabir
English 1B
3 November 2010
1. India; Design like you Give a Damn
After a devastating Indian ocean Tanaminado in 2004 a new movement of architects is looking to help solve humanitarian problems thorough innovative design. Purnima McCutcheon who is world architecture for humanities went to that place to help the society. she spoke to the people in the society and helped them a lot. she tried to build a new civilization through an organization named "Architecture for Humanity". Many architect from work like Cameron Sinclair, Kate Stohr also help by providing their design of housing. Purnima helped to build schools, hospitals and build civilization in Taminado which helped the local people of that are a lot. This is a great job and should be appreciated.
2.Mexico: The Business of Saving tree
Pati Ruiz Carso who is a director of "Sierra Gorda Biosphere" is trying to save the atmosphere and tree in Mexico. She used be a music teacher but later she chooses to involve in this field. Before she went to the place in Mexico it was polluted and empty. people used to throw their garbage in river and cut lots of trees. she started providing knowledge to people about greenhouse gases and about the importance of trees. People of that place slowly understood more vegetation on soil absorb more water. she is now getting donation from corporation, individuals through internet.People of that place cook food by sun power instead of using wood which ultimately save trees. now this place is so beautiful and completely like a national park.
Mauricio Cavero Alprecht
English 1B
Professor Wanda Sabir
4 November 2010
Frontline World: Engaged Citinzenry Cyber-Assignment
Tibet: Tibet Vision Project
Dr. Marc Lieberman is an ophthalmologist and a social entrepreneur that goes to a little town in Tibet twice a year to perform cataract surgeries to the less fortunate people that live far away from the city.
Dr. Liberman saw that chronic eye disease, blindness and cataracts are a major problem for the people in a far region in Tibet. This is because that region is located 12,000 feet above the sea level where there is little protection from the solar radiation making blindness rates one of the highest in the world.
The organization, lead by Dr. Liberman, started with some American ophthalmologists and their will to do something right for a community in dire straights. The organization is called the Tibet Vision Project. They act as a catalyst for Tibetan ophthalmology programs by transferring the technology and skills of modern eye care to the poorest populations of Tibet at an affordable cost. Their main goal is to eliminate blindness caused by cataracts among the people in Tibet by the year 2020.
What Tibet Vision Project does is gives new technology and teaches their local Tibetan staff of ophthalmologist to be able to do microsurgery on patients with cataracts and some other chronic eye diseases in a fast and successful way. In Dr. Liberman’s own words he says “I’m working myself out of a job.”
Nowadays, we see many of the Tibetan ophthalmologists performing their own eye surgeries, making them experts in the matter. They perform as many as 15 eye surgeries per doctor a day. There are still not that many Tibetans doctors able to perform surgeries but, now the Tibetans doctors act as Teachers to the new generations of Tibetans ophthalmologists, like Dr. Liberman once did years ago with them.
Mauricio Cavero Alprecht
English 1B
Professor Wanda Sabir
8 November 2010
Frontline World: Engaged Citinzenry Cyber-Assignment
2) Rwanda –Millennium Village Project
The social entrepreneur profiled is Josh Ruxin.
The problem that Josh identified was the extreme poverty that Neanje, a village in Rwanda, was going through.
The name of the organization that they started is called The Millennium Project.
At the beginning of the project, Josh was concentrated on the health care of the village, trying to provide bed nets to prevent malaria. Malaria was the cause the 60% of child death in the village.
The Government of Rwanda took a unique approach towards Josh’s project and wanted a full partnership and offered a full commitment to the social entrepreneurship. Now the community is pretty savvy about health care and health prevention, the child death rate has been cut two thirds and the first term of Josh’s goal is made.
Nowadays, the Millenium Village Project in Neanje is focused in business management for the population. Josh turned an arid desert to a farm land that as some investors said it will be like Southern California. Some farmers are expected to be earning as much as five hundred dollars a month for their crops. This is an increment of five hundred percent because five years ago they were not earning any money at all.
The community is still engaged to the hand of Josh but they are learning to be independent with their new businesses. The population are started to engage the idea of working together for the common good of the community and there is a project that will be bringing many tourists.
Shonta Jones
Professor Wanda Sabir
English 1B
8, November 2010
Mexico is the name of the video I watched on frontline world. It talked about the business of saving trees. The social entrepreneur that is profiled is Patricia and everyone calls her Patte. The problem that the community was facing was the people of the village had nowhere to dump their garbage so they would dump it in their own river nearby.
The name of the organization that patte started was called Viva Sierra Gorda and the people of the community help plant trees and by selling a little piece of their property the state will pay them $360 a month to harvest trees on their land. Since the Viva Sierra Gorda organization has trees with carbon dioxide which helps to produce air, they have been selling there trees to some of the wealthiest organizations and other states who have no trees that produce this precipitation or green vegetation environment.
Patte relationships with the community is a very good and healthy one, she helps the people stay informed about their environment and how the garbage is making the water polluted and how it messes with the wild life and the ego system up stream. Patte also educates her people on how the trees with the carbon dioxide helps there ego system and by allowing the state to harvest trees on their property they will receive a profit. That healthy drinking water is the best drinking water.
Patte decided to address this issue along with others for the simple fact that there are no jobs in Sierra Gorda and most men leave the community at a young age to go seek a job. Patte also decided to address this issue along with a lot of other supporters around the nation is because the ground use to be so dry and unmanageable to grow anything on, Patte and a crew came and planted a few trees and replanted some trees elsewhere and the vegetation and greener in the environment just flourished.
The local component in this video is the Sierra trees and how they help the community raise money to manage their community and raise jobs/money for the man and women of the community, so the money stays in the community. The community owns the process by learning how to take care of their town and also by the people of the community being allowed first hand and first pick on what job they would like to work for in a community they grew up in since kids and watched their parents do the same thing.
Sha'Quea Pratt
Professor Sabir
English 1B
19 October 2010
1)Quan Dien is being profiled. He lost his legs in the Cambodian war in the '80s.He usually stays home daily because his Japanese neighborhood is not "wheelchair friendly." Because of his injuries he designed what is known as the "RoughRider " so disabled people can still go out into public and not be concerned about their safety and to get around the ruff streets easily. He now sells his Roughriders all over for disabled people who need wheel chairs. They discussed this issue to show that people never stop giving back to their nation; first through war, then through designing a wheelchair for the disabled. Many people in the community buy these Roughriders.
Sha'Quea Pratt
Professor Sabir
English 1B
19 October 2010
1)Quan Dien is being profiled. He lost his legs in the Cambodian war in the '80s.He usually stays home daily because his Japanese neighborhood is not "wheelchair friendly." Because of his injuries he designed what is known as the "RoughRider " so disabled people can still go out into public and not be concerned about their safety and to get around the ruff streets easily. He now sells his Roughriders all over for disabled people who need wheel chairs. They discussed this issue to show that people never stop giving back to their nation; first through war, then through designing a wheelchair for the disabled. Many people in the community buy these Roughriders.
2)Michelle Barnes is being profiled. Michelle found out that she was the first American to have been diagnosed with a rare and deadly disease, known as "Marburg Hemorrhagic Fever". She had gone on a trip to Uganda not knowing this trip would change her life forever. She had gone into a cave filled with pythons and bats and soon after, began to encounter many symptoms. Only a rare amount of people get this disease. They addressed this issue] to prove that there are survivors with this disease who are helping with research on this rare disease.
3)Rwanda is being profiled in this video. Rwanda is a Country in Africa. It is known for its clean streets and such obedient citizens. But,in 1994, Rwanda was ripped apart by violence so apocalyptic that nearly 1 million people died in the span of approximately 100 days. To still be here and standing strong is such a miracle after encountering so much abnormal violence. This is a African success story and is written to show that all communities and areas can make a change just like they did.
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