Justice environnementale

Hawaii Farmers Union: Growing Radical Roots in GMO-Occupied Islands!

Created on 10/21/2009 by edenmarie

Here in Hawaii, place of more endangered and endemic species than anywhere - there are more unregulated GMO field tests than anywhere else as well! We are growing the newest branch of the radically progressive 107 year old National Farmers Union- advocating for family farmers, fishers and rural communities through its grasroots policy and 3-fold mission of Education, Cooperation and Legislation. The GMO and Biotechnolgy policy is conservative and provides us with the mandate to address this issue form NFU's farmer-authoritative perspective.

A propos de vous

Organisation: Hawaii Farmers Union Visit website plus ↓↑ cacher ↑ cacher

Section 1: About You

Prénom

Eden

Nom

Peart

Adresse électronique

hawaiifarmersunion@gmail.com

URL du site Web

http://www.hawaiifarmersunion.org

Organisation

Hawaii Farmers Union

Pays

États Unis

Section 2: About Your Organization

Nom

Hawaii Farmers Union

Site Web

http://www.hawaiifarmersunion.org

Téléphone

808-331-3002

Adresse

P.O. Box 1863, Honokaa,Hi 96727

Pays

États Unis

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Name Your Project

Hawaii Farmers Union: Growing Radical Roots in GMO-Occupied Islands!

Country your work focuses on

États Unis

What makes your approach innovative?

We are establishing a distinguished radically progressive organization that Hawaii's family farmers and concerned public can embrace and utilize for effective change.

Describe Your Idea

Here in Hawaii, place of more endangered and endemic species than anywhere - there are more unregulated GMO field tests than anywhere else as well! We are growing the newest branch of the radically progressive 107 year old National Farmers Union- advocating for family farmers, fishers and rural communities through its grasroots policy and 3-fold mission of Education, Cooperation and Legislation. The GMO and Biotechnolgy policy is conservative and provides us with the mandate to address this issue form NFU's farmer-authoritative perspective.

How will you sustain your solution?

The Hawaii Farmers Union is a passionate, robust network of citizens, committed to seeing this project to completion. Additionally, we collaborate with local citizens to find continued support for this project.

What will be the impact of your solution?

We will bring a voice of family farmers to education and legislative efforts on countering the Biotech Industry claims about GMO's. In addditon we will be accessing Farmers Union expertise in Cooperative Development which will have manifold effects on agricultural economic sustainability in Hawaii.

Corn Maiden Stands against Frankenfoods in GMO-Occupied Hawaii

Created on 10/20/2009 by edenmarie

We will create and distribute in a educational campaign, packets of identity-preserved corn with information on how and why to plant plots of real corn adjacent to the 6,000 acres of GMO seed corn in production now in Hawaii.

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Section 1: About You

Prénom

Eden

Nom

Peart

Adresse électronique

kawaiholeholefarm@gmail.com

URL du site Web

Organisation

Hawaii SEED

Pays

États Unis

Section 2: About Your Organization

Nom

Hawaii SEED

Site Web

http://www.hawaiiseed.org

Téléphone

808 756 1269

Adresse

PO Box 2352 Kealakelua, HI

Pays

États Unis

Your idea

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Name Your Project

Corn Maiden Stands against Frankenfoods in GMO-Occupied Hawaii

Country your work focuses on

États Unis

What makes your approach innovative?

The GMO industry has banked on Hawai'i 's aloha and made our islands the world center of unregulated GMO field testing and exploits over 6,000 acres of our best farmlands and ag ricultural resources to grow GMO seed corn that pollutes the rest of the world! We have organized to counter this over the past 10 years and are now ready to engage everyone who lives adjacent to GMO seed corn fields to honor the Corn Maiden ~ by planting and tending a plot of beautiful identity-preserved heritage Painted Mountain corn developed by www.seedweneed.com. These plots will allow Hawaii's concerned citizens to assert our right to food sovereignty and to allign with peoples everywhere in honoring the gift of life given to the People from the Corn Maiden ages ago. We will be able to document and bring public attention to the likely contamination that results from the Biotech interlopers and even possibly bring about a class action suit. People of Native American descent living here and growing their plots will be able to demonstate infringement of their right to practice their religion as well.

Describe Your Idea

We will create and distribute in a educational campaign, packets of identity-preserved corn with information on how and why to plant plots of real corn adjacent to the 6,000 acres of GMO seed corn in production now in Hawaii.

How will you sustain your solution?

We will utilize our existing network of community organizations including GMO-Free Hawaii organizations, Native Hawaiian groups, Farmers groups, Consumer/Citizen groups etc. to publicize our effort and findings. We will also continue to redistribute seed grown from these first plantings in an on-going movement to draw attention to the many problems induced by Biotech "solutions."

What will be the impact of your solution?

We will demonstrate how we can and will feed each other (and rise to our opportunitry to grow identity -preserved seed for the world!) while making Hawaii GMO Free!

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GM-free Ireland: a biosafety reserve for Europe

Created on 10/20/2009 by Inishowen

Ireland should be a GMO-free biosafety reserve to safeguard Europe's biodiversity, food safety and food security for future generations. As GM crops risk disease and harvest failure, Europe needs the capacity to recover, develop and propagate agricultural seeds in a secure GM-free zone. Ireland is the best location. See http://www.gmfreeireland.org/reserve

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Section 1: About You

Prénom

Michael

Nom

O'Callaghan

Adresse électronique

mail@gmfreeireland.org

URL du site Web

http://www.gmfreeireland.org

Organisation

GM-free Ireland Network

Pays

Irlande

Section 2: About Your Organization

Nom

GM-free Ireland Network

Site Web

http://www.gmfreeireland.org

Téléphone

+353 404 43885

Adresse

Little Alders, Knockrath, Rathdrum, Co. Wicklow

Pays

Irlande

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GM-free Ireland: a biosafety reserve for Europe

Country your work focuses on

Irlande

What makes your approach innovative?

This project embodies a collaborative international multi-stakeholder strategy to address a major GM contamination disaster before it happens.
We launched the GM-free Ireland Network on Earth Day 2004. We declared 1,000 local GMO-free zones one year later. We now have the greatest number and broadest diversity of stakeholders of any NGO on this island. In 2008 we convinced the Agriculture Ministers on both sides of our border to back our GMO-free zone policy. In October 2009 the Irish Government declared its intention to ban GM crops and to introduce a voluntary GM-free label for animal produce made without the use of GM animal feed.
We announced our new goal to designate Ireland as a GMO-free biosafety reserve for Europe at the Food and Democracy Conference in Switzerland in April 2009. If this project secures the desired political backing in the EU, it will set a legal precedent with strategic implications for concurrent GM-free zone initiatives around the world.

Describe Your Idea

Ireland should be a GMO-free biosafety reserve to safeguard Europe's biodiversity, food safety and food security for future generations. As GM crops risk disease and harvest failure, Europe needs the capacity to recover, develop and propagate agricultural seeds in a secure GM-free zone. Ireland is the best location. See http://www.gmfreeireland.org/reserve

How will you sustain your solution?

Our first step is to mobilise Irish farmers, consumers and other stakeholders to lobby our Government to implement its agreed GM-free zone policy with related legislation, and to convince the Northern Ireland Assembly to extend this policy to the whole island of Ireland.
Our second step is to secure international support from EU member states, European Institutions, NGOs, academia, seed developers and the agri-food and eco-tourism sectors.
Our third step is to obtain a Resolution from the European Parliament, and legislation from the European Commission to keep the island of Ireland permanently off-limits to any environmental release of Genetically Modified Living Organisms (GMLOs).
To ensure the sustainability of this project, our final steps will support the Irish Seed Savers Association, foster the emergence of a local agricultural seed industry, and hold our Government accountable to prevent the release of GMLOs through vigilant import controls, strict liability and punitive fines for genetic trespass.

What will be the impact of your solution?

At the local level, implementation of Ireland’s policy to ban GM crops and introduce a voluntary GM-free label for animal produce will provide our farmers and food producers with a unique selling point: the most credible safe GM-free food brand in Europe. This will foster sustainable agriculture, and wean our livestock farmers off their dependence on imported GM animal feed which has negative impacts in the producing countries.
At the European level, keeping Ireland as a GMO-free biosafety reserve will safeguard agricultural biodiversity, regional self-reliance, food safety, food security and food sovereignty. It will also provide the capacity to recover from major GM contamination incidents with a secure location to develop and propagate GM-free agricultural seeds for future generations.
At the global level, the establishment of this GM-free biosafety reserve will set a political and legal precedent that strengthens international resistance to the privatisation of the food chain with patented GM crops.

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REBUILT BROKEN RELATIONSHIP

Créé: 10/14/09 par Paul Sureshkumar Samuel

Emplacement

main Madurai, TN

Inde

Locally Integrated Sustainability, Teaching/Education, and Nutrition (LISTEN)

Created on 10/13/2009 by chencj

LISTEN improves the nutrition of diets of low-income women by
- Providing fresh produce from Lafayette College's student-run organic garden
- Teaching nutrition lessons to the women at a local women's shelter
- Cooking and dining nutritious dinners with them

More details at http://sites.lafayette.edu/organicgardening/community-outreach-listen/

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Section 1: About You

Prénom

Christina

Nom

Chen

Adresse électronique

chencj@lafayette.edu

URL du site Web

http://sites.lafayette.edu/organicgardening/

Organisation

Lafayette Environmental Awareness and Protection

Pays

États Unis

Section 2: About Your Organization

Nom

Lafayette Environmental Awareness and Protection

Site Web

http://ww2.lafayette.edu/~leap/index.php

Téléphone

Adresse

Lafayette College, Easton, PA

Votre organisation est-elle une

organisation à but non lucratif

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États Unis

Your idea

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Name Your Project

Locally Integrated Sustainability, Teaching/Education, and Nutrition (LISTEN)

Country your work focuses on

États Unis

Describe Your Idea

LISTEN improves the nutrition of diets of low-income women by
- Providing fresh produce from Lafayette College's student-run organic garden
- Teaching nutrition lessons to the women at a local women's shelter
- Cooking and dining nutritious dinners with them

More details at http://sites.lafayette.edu/organicgardening/community-outreach-listen/

Website URL

http://sites.lafayette.edu/organicgardening/community-outreach-listen/

Innovation

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What makes your idea unique?

As liberal arts students, we seek hands-on experience with a wide variety of subjects, as well as developing civically-minded students. Organic gardening and agriculture, education, and cooking are a few topics that can really be applied to any undergraduate of any major. Why not capitalize of a willing workforce (undergraduate volunteers), and utilize the “waste” created from these lessons (fresh produce, meals, and more)? LISTEN provides an outlet for students to interact with community members, providing a rich opportunity for growth. We are the same age as most of the shelter women and single mothers in this community, and connect with them on a variety of levels. For instance, our diet can often mimic theirs – dependent on ramen, microwave mac&cheese, take-out Chinese, pizza deliveries. However, Lafayette encourages independence as well as the slow food movement, allowing us to provide ourselves with a nutritious diet and lifestyle that promotes healthy living and success in academics rather than hindering it. As the potential leaders of tomorrow, it is crucial that we realize how important community service is. LISTEN does not claim to be the silver bullet for nutritional issues, but does provide the connections and experiences that will allow individuals to adjust their dietary habits while maintaining a supportive and helpful background.
Hunger and nutrition issues are often viewed as problems with simple solutions such as donating more food or subsidizing foods so that they are attainable to the impoverished. However, these fail to take into consideration how unsustainable these are – they merely treat the immediate problem, providing no change to the infrastructure that led to it. Our idea has the donation and education components like many programs, but also seeks to create lasting behavioral changes. These lifestyle changes allow integration of nutrition into their regular diets while accommodating the constraints placed upon their lifestyle.

Do you have a patent for this idea?

Impact social

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What impact have you had?

Though the project is still mainly within the planning stages, we have been making great progress already. Already, students have had a number of casual dinners with the women and children from the shelter. This has allowed us to discuss with the women what they want and really develop a plan for how to address these issues. Their enthusiasm and desire to lead healthier lifestyles and promote it for their children was evident, and it has sparked conversations amongst themselves about what it really means to be “healthy.”
Earlier this season, we donated our first big harvest from the organic garden to the women and children. Though we were initially nervous that the produce would be met with puzzled faces, the cook reported to us that the women eagerly devoured our first crop, along with the children being intrigued by and then quickly working through the tiny cherry tomatoes we had harvested just for them. We ended up supplying them with a bushel of paste tomatoes, two bushels of cherry/grape tomatoes, another two of slicing tomatoes, around 3 bushels of Yukon Gold potatoes, and several bushels of turnips and greens. To our delight, they were quickly inhaled, and the coordinator asked for more! This is the start of a very healthy partnership between two groups that both stand to gain enormously. I believe the program’s impact will only increase as the program reaches more people and incorporates specialized activities such as field trips to the garden and specific lessons tailored to different groups.

Problème

The main problems are that urban areas of lower socioeconomic status tend to become “food deserts,” loosely defined as areas where residents have little access to fresh produce because of lack of grocery stores within the area, financial barriers, and perhaps lack of knowledge/experience on how to prepare such foods. At the Third Street Alliance, many of the women staying there are single mothers, struggling to finish their GEDs while rearing a child or two, as well as working a labor-intensive job. Finances and time are tight, with the ability to shop for produce hampered further by young children by their sides. Overall, it is not a very conducive environment for young mothers to be experimenting with dietary and lifestyle changes. Fortunately, it is not as dismal as it sounds – both the residents of Third Street and Lafayette students are eager to learn from each other and provide supportive education to help remedy the situation.

Actions

Instead of approaching this problem with one set solution, we are treating it as what it is – a multifaceted issue with roots conveniently in clubs and projects that the students at Lafayette College have already been working on. This project is a collaboration between all these clubs to create a sustainable impact upon the local city community. The first component is accessibility - there is a student-run organic garden which donates a regular supply of nutritious vegetables. Those clubs are currently working on how to integrate the garden further into the community (e.g. planning pick-your-own days). The second component is educational – we are teaching the women and children about the importance of nutrition and how to incorporate vegetables into daily diets. The third component is simply cooking meals with the women, which utilize our garden-fresh vegetables while remaining under strict budget and time constraints. This familiarizes these dishes with the women and allows us to bond with them as well.
Networking with local businesses and college clubs has been extremely fruitful, and anonymous feedback from the women about the project has helped focus our goals.

Results

Nutrition is a hard issue to evaluate simply because of its lack of definitive short-term results. However, the best results (and the ones we hope to see) are lasting lifelong changes in how these women and children approach food. By utilizing flexibility, it is simple to buy and create large batches of nutritional foods which can be prepared, stored in a freezer, and then re-assembled when necessary. This does not need to be any less convenient than microwave dinners. The result of having women could increase the amounts of fruits, vegetables, and whole-grains in their everyday diet as well as cutting down on processed foods is quite likely, especially when the produce is supplied. Overall awareness of health and diet in both the women and children is a crucial result.
For the students, it is just as important for us to experience a connection with food production as part of becoming more self-aware of what we are doing to our own bodies. Teaching to others is one of the best ways to learn.

What will it take for your project to be successful over the next three years? Please address each year separately, if possible.

This year, we are working on establishing a regular schedule for produce donations. Come spring semester, we will prepare 3 dinners with nutritional lessons in each month. The produce donations will increase in frequency as the semester goes on, with each delivery supplementing the corresponding meal. The basics of health and cooking will be the focus, with distribution of pamphlets and recipe cards for the dishes made. Spreading the program to the children's daycare (located at the same shelter) is our next step - we're giving very basic food lessons. They'll have activities like growing their own mini-gardens and edible arts and crafts.
Year 2 focuses on expanding the attendance of this program. Currently this program is spreading by word of mouth, and has already doubled in attendance from the beginning. If we advertise this to the women living in the shelter as well to people who use TSA's daycare, we attract people from all over the area. Produce donations will have to increase accordingly – excess from community garden plots, better management of our current garden, and local restaurant donations can make up that difference. A “cookbook” of our recipes will be given to attendees.
Year 3 focuses on sustainability of the project. Institutionalizing it as a civic component of our growing Women and Gender Studies Department would keep students engaged, but turn over much of the administrative work to professors. Our community service center also has an annual Pre-Orientation Service Program which engages incoming freshmen, perfect for this program.

What would prevent your project from being a success?

A key component to this project is c and constant outreach. With so many different clubs and organizations contributing a small part each, the initial startup is difficult simply because of getting all the players together. Rather than building everything anew, LISTEN is working with already established clubs and organizations which all have their own volunteers and schedules already. As we have become more incorporated into each club, the team goal has been more realized, and now regular deliveries and lessons are the expected deal, rather than the occasional event.
Though outwardly, simply donations and lessons would be great, it is crucial that we give the women what THEY need, rather than what we think would be idealistic. Otherwise, how can we expect them to make these dietary changes for the long term? In order to avoid that dilemma, we communicate directly with them – after all, we are eating dinner with them. We also provide them the opportunity to give anonymous feedback for what they would like to see and eat next. We sample our own recipes (no complaints here!) as well as making sure they pass the test of being easily prepared within the time constraints of a busy college life. It is surprising how quickly a big pot of chili and brown rice can come together, as well as how tasty and filling it can be.
Our last issue would simply be the manpower required. Running a 2-acre garden is a bit much, but as our garden grows in reputation, more people have become interested and are volunteering their time. With future departments supporting it by requiring (or offering extra credit) work in the garden or at the shelter, this problem should take care of itself. Hopefully, future involvement from the women in the community will reduce the workload even more.

How many people will your project serve annually?

101‐1000

What is the average monthly household income in your target community, in US Dollars?

$1000 - 4000

Does your project seek to have an impact on public policy?

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A quel étape votre projet en est-il ?

En place depuis moins d'un an

In what country?

États Unis

Is your initiative connected to an established organization?

Oui

If yes, provide organization name.

Lafayette Organic Garden, Lafayette Environmental Awareness and Protection, Society of Environmental Engineers and Scientists

How long has this organization been operating?

Plus 5 années

Does your organization have a Board of Directors or an Advisory Board?

Oui

Does your organization have any non-monetary partnerships with NGOs?

Oui

Does your organization have any non-monetary partnerships with businesses?

Oui

Does your organization have any non-monetary partnerships with government?

Non

Please tell us more about how these partnerships are critical to the success of your innovation.

Simply put, without these partnerships, we couldn’t have this program! This program depends on the fact that people always want to further their movements – the environmental groups on campus wanted to spread their influence on a group that would not normally be able to experience such things. Landis (the community service club) wanted to get more people involved in the annual Hunger and Homelessness Week. Regular discussions about community activism were beginning to bubble up in Lafayette’s Intercultural Networking Council. From the student side, people were raring to go, and organizing them is key in creating a strong educational component to our project. Partnerships with local organizations are also extremely important. Third Street Alliance has been extremely welcoming and open about their wants/needs. Without their guidance, we really cannot expect to create useful lesson plans or relevant dinners. Our budding relationships with local restaurants hold much promise for the expansion of this program in the future.

What are the three most important actions needed to grow your initiative or organization?

Simply put, without these partnerships, we couldn’t have this program! This program depends on the fact that people always want to further their movements – the environmental groups on campus wanted to spread their influence on a group that would not normally be able to experience such things. Landis (the community service club) wanted to get more people involved in the annual Hunger and Homelessness Week. Regular discussions about community activism were beginning to bubble up in Lafayette’s Intercultural Networking Council. From the student side, people were raring to go, and organizing them is key in creating a strong educational component to our project. Partnerships with local organizations are also extremely important. Third Street Alliance has been extremely welcoming and open about their wants/needs. Without their guidance, we really cannot expect to create useful lesson plans or relevant dinners. Our budding relationships with local restaurants hold much promise for the expansion of this program in the future.

The Story

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What was the defining moment that led you to this innovation?

Though a few people and I had chatted about this issue, the severity of it did not really sink in until I went on a service trip during spring break. We ended up spending a day at a food bank, sorting the foods that various supermarkets had deemed unsellable for a variety of reasons. I was shocked at the inventory we were handling. Boxes and boxes of Capri Sun were donated, along with tons of candy bars, a good amount of canned sauces and meals (of course, with skyrocketing high sodium amounts), all sorts of snack foods and freezie pops, a childhood dream. Understandably, the fresh vegetables and fruit were lacking, since these were all packaged goods that were easily transported around. The canned vegetables and fruit were present, but severely lacking when compared to the mountain of soda cans and sugary cereals. What COULD an impoverished mother do to try and attain a healthy, balanced meal for her children, let alone herself? Even if she did manage to grab something “healthy,” what sort of appetizing meal can be concocted from plain rice and canned beets? Has she even had beets before, or are they a foreign, strangely colored enigma to her? This was when I realized that I was lucky. My father’s mother has this enormous garden, where I frolicked under the California sun, snacking on a juicy peach or puckering my face at the spicy taste of radish sprouts (though they’re quite delicious now). My mother’s side did not have this luxury, and oftentimes I remember my father bringing back some strange, bizarre vegetable and eagerly presenting it to my mother’s contorted, confused face. It was lucky that she was willing to experiment and see what it was like, otherwise I may have never experienced the uniquely delicious tastes of kabocha, papaya, sprouts of all sorts, persimmons, tiny golden satsuma oranges, and a whole assortment of greens that my grandmother never had the name for. Perhaps its unrealistic to think that many other people will have the experiences that I had growing up. After all, not everyone has access to a garden and all sorts of strange heirloom vegetables. Most seem to eat whatever is most readily available. However, the variety and experience of dining on fresh produce is one that I think NEEDS to be available in order for humans to be healthy, and moreover, happy. Vegetables and fruit aren't just an option for the human diet - they are a staple, a long ignored and forgot one.

Tell us about the social innovator behind this idea.

This project was not so much a “Eureka!” moment, but rather a slow, bubbling stew that came together as different clubs and people on the college campus were discussing. Another student and I have been working on Lafayette College’s new organic garden, a component of our goal to “close the food loop” to increase sustainability here on campus. The soil and fertilizer for the garden is coming from our rapidly growing composting initiative, which soon will be able to handle all of the food waste that is produced from the campus’ dining halls. The last part of the food loop is bringing the fresh produce back around to some hungry mouths. While planning all that, the gay-straight alliance and feminist groups were discussing how to connect with our city and improve the lives of the residents, and a close friend and her mentoring professor had just come back from a conference regarding world hunger. When we all met and started talking, this project blossomed. Ideas started getting tossed around, with Professor Kney, Professor Veshosky, and I really taking the lead. After my service trip to Florida, I was more motivated than ever to get this off paper and into action.

How did you first hear about Changemakers?

College or university

If through another, please provide the name of the organization or company

MENTAL & PHYSICAL ailing HEALTH

Créé: 10/13/09 par Paul Sureshkumar Samuel

Emplacement

main Madurai, TN

Inde

Community Food Security Coalition

Créé: 10/11/09 par Hanan Nassau

Emplacement

main Portland

États Unis

45° 31' 24.4272" N, 122° 40' 34.3452" W

See map: Google Maps

The Community Food Security Coalition (CFSC) is a North American coalition of diverse people and organizations working from the local to international levels to build community food security.

New entry-Broken Minds & families

Created on 10/10/2009 by sureshshanth

While I am travelling I happened to notice the lonely men and women.

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Section 1: About You

Prénom

Paul Sureshkumar

Nom

Samuel

Adresse électronique

sureshshanth@yahoo.com

URL du site Web

Organisation

Pays

Inde

Section 2: About Your Organization

Nom

Rathnas Trust

Site Web

Téléphone

091-0452-2371959

Adresse

15, Rock View, Pasumalai, Madurai-625004, India

Pays

Inde

Your idea

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Are you a traveler or travel company?

Oui

Name Your Project

New entry-Broken Minds & families

Country your work focuses on

Inde

What is the likely impact of your idea? How will it help ensure that World Heritage sites are preserved? (150 words max)

I used to come across lot of lonely women are arrogant in nature and they didn't repect other humans, since they were affected by all means in this society. Also some of the longly men are wantering here and there for the sake of society. But they are not in good health in mental.

What makes your idea innovative? How is it a sustainable, green technology? (150 words max)

Nowadays, divorces, suicides and broken families are increasing in India. It is a worst example for unculture civilization.

Describe Your Idea

While I am travelling I happened to notice the lonely men and women.THE DIVORCES, BROKEN FAMILIES & SUICIDES ARE INCREASING. Cinema is also the major problem for divorce. God wants us to control our self. We are planning to eradicate this from the minds of School Children/teachers, College Students/teachers & Employer/Employees.

What would it require to launch or spread your idea? How much would it cost to make your idea a reality? (150 words max)

We are planning to eradicate such superstitious believes from the minds of School Children/teachers, College Students/teachers & Employer/Employees of big concerns.
Motivation, education, teaching, coucilling, divert their concentration, family reunion is the base for the remedy for this mental agony.

Please send me more information about Conde Nast Traveler and special offers

Yes, I would like more information about Condé Nast Traveler and travel offers..

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A CASA DO SENHOR .Casa lar para crianças e jovens

Created on 10/8/2009 by Rosangela Figueiredo

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Section 1: About You

Prénom

Nom

Adresse électronique

Website URL

Pays

nd

Section 2: About Your Organization

Nom

Site Web

Téléphone

Adresse

Pays

nd

Votre organisation est-elle une

Your idea

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Name Your Project

A CASA DO SENHOR .Casa lar para crianças e jovens

Country your work focuses on

nd

Describe Your Idea

Innovation

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What makes your idea unique?

Do you have a patent for this idea?

Non

Impact social

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This Entry is about (Issues)

What impact have you had?

Problème

Actions

Results

What will it take for your project to be successful over the next three years? Please address each year separately, if possible.

What would prevent your project from being a success?

How many people will your project serve annually?

Moins de 100

What is the average monthly household income in your target community, in US Dollars?

Don't know

Does your project seek to have an impact on public policy?

Non

Viabilité

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A quel étape votre projet en est-il ?

In what country?

nd

Is your initiative connected to an established organization?

Non

If yes, provide organization name.

How long has this organization been operating?

Does your organization have a Board of Directors or an Advisory Board?

Non

Does your organization have any non-monetary partnerships with NGOs?

Does your organization have any non-monetary partnerships with businesses?

Does your organization have any non-monetary partnerships with government?

Please tell us more about how these partnerships are critical to the success of your innovation.

What are the three most important actions needed to grow your initiative or organization?

The Story

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What was the defining moment that led you to this innovation?

Tell us about the social innovator behind this idea.

How did you first hear about Changemakers?

If through another, please provide the name of the organization or company

Save Earth

Créé: 09/28/09 par Paawan Rai

Emplacement

main Jabalpur

Inde

23° 9' 49.068" N, 79° 56' 39.1416" E

This is a simple project , in this project we aware people about the importance of trees and tell them to help us in saving our beloved environment.

Commentaire

Human energy for Power generation

Created on 09/26/2009 by 1phoenix1

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Section 1: About You

Prénom

Nabeel

Nom

Tahir

Adresse électronique

ntahir84@hotmail.com

URL du site Web

Organisation

Pays

Pakistan

Section 2: About Your Organization

Nom

Site Web

Téléphone

Adresse

Pays

nd

Your idea

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Are you a traveler or travel company?

Non

Name Your Project

Human energy for Power generation

Country your work focuses on

nd

What is the likely impact of your idea? How will it help ensure that World Heritage sites are preserved? (150 words max)

Likely impact is a considerable reduction in use of fossil fuels and diminishing natural resources for generation of electricity. Also a considerable reduction in electricity cost. Which will result in improving quality of life all over the world.
Reduction in pollution due to burning of coal etc for electricity by huge amount will add up in ensuring that world heritage sites are preserved.

What makes your idea innovative? How is it a sustainable, green technology? (150 words max)

The idea is innovative as it is based on foundations of no waste and complete gain. It has no side effects and completely new in its own self. The idea is sustainable and green because it does not uses any diminishing resource as raw material and has no waste and if implemented will not cause any type of pollution.

Describe Your Idea

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Generation of electricity by kinetic devices weared by humans and charge storage into capacitor catridges. Connection of catridges in parallel in a towering device to generate electricity.

What would it require to launch or spread your idea? How much would it cost to make your idea a reality? (150 words max)

A technically sound engineering team is required to carry out detail engineering based on the foundations of this idea. An implementation plan will have to be devised to implement the idea. Costing will be finalized after the detail engineering. Although it seems that cost benefit analysis will be very much favorable.

Please send me more information about Conde Nast Traveler and special offers

Yes, I would like more information about Condé Nast Traveler and travel offers..

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YOUNG FARMERS

Created on 09/24/2009 by farmersfoundation

East to west, thousands of people are inspired to dig in and grow food! Yet access to the land, capital, market, and skills requires for successful farming is available only to a dauntless few. Those few are brave, strong, and delightful advocates of the purposeful life, but it will take more than a few to reclaim a food system. This is the injustice this group seeks to repair.

Cliff Lines Help - Canoa Quebrada - Ceara - Brasil

Created on 09/19/2009 by canoaquebrada

This group was designed to safeguard the cliffs of environmental protection area Canoa Quebrada (APA-CQ) anthropogenic impacting actions, which are leading to severe trigger these morfodinâmicas erosivos processes, primary responsibility for its unprovision and even its total destruction.

Panel Discussion - Africa and India GMO Risk or Rescue

Created on 09/9/2009 by ActionCenter

A propos de vous

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Section 1: About You

Prénom

The Action Center

Nom

to End World Hunger

Adresse électronique

gslwdny@hotmail.com

URL du site Web

http://ActionCenter.org

Organisation

Pays

États Unis

Section 2: About Your Organization

Nom

The Action Center to End World Hunger

Site Web

http://ActionCenter,org

Téléphone

(212) 537-0511

Adresse

6 River Terrace, Battery Park City, New York, NY 10282

Pays

États Unis

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Name Your Project

Panel Discussion - Africa and India GMO Risk or Rescue

Country your work focuses on

nd

What makes your approach innovative?

Describe Your Idea

How will you sustain your solution?

What will be the impact of your solution?

Alternatives to the 'green revolution' approach

Created on 09/7/2009 by IPC9Malawi

We are proud to have Africa chosen as host to IPC9, a biennial Conference and Convergence of the Permaculture Comminuty to share experiences, and increased awareness of the alternatives to the 'Green Revolution' approach among local African farmers, policy makers, the general public, as well as Permaculture representatives attending from around the globe.

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Section 1: About You

Prénom

Mugove Walter

Nom

Nyika

Adresse électronique

zipscope@yahoo.co.uk

URL du site Web

http://www.ipcon.org

Organisation

IPC9

Pays

nd

Section 2: About Your Organization

Nom

International Permaculture Conference and Convergence

Site Web

http://www.ipcon.org/

Téléphone

Tel: +2651 831 373

Adresse

P.O. Box 32280, Chichiri, Blantyre 3,Malawi

Pays

Malawi

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Name Your Project

Alternatives to the 'green revolution' approach

Country your work focuses on

Malawi

What makes your approach innovative?

We have the unique opportunity to discuss the issues of the New Green Revolution for Africa which promotes the use of genetically modified seeds and chemical fertilizers, and to disseminate information on alternative agricultural methods. This is a chance to reach out to local African farmers, policy makers, the general public, as well as to the general Permaculture community around the globe through the representatives attending the Conference and Convergence.

The Theme for the Convergence is Plan Africa ~ Food and Empowerment and is based on inspiring, informing and enabling a development strategy for Africa that seeks to understand our natural heritage and the inherent wealth that it contains and find ways of unlocking value so as to create strong sustainable regional economies that are in harmony with nature. Underlying this theme is the by-line 'Designing solutions for a sustainable future'. The Conference and Convergence will serve to highlight ways of empowering marginalized communities out of poverty through concerted well-designed social and economic development. read more at http://arc.peacecorpsconnect.org/view/626

Describe Your Idea

We are proud to have Africa chosen as host to IPC9, a biennial Conference and Convergence of the Permaculture Comminuty to share experiences, and increased awareness of the alternatives to the 'Green Revolution' approach among local African farmers, policy makers, the general public, as well as Permaculture representatives attending from around the globe.

How will you sustain your solution?

Representatives from Permaculture groups attending the International Permaculture Conference and Convergence from around the world will take this information back to their communities, and the dialogue will continue.

What will be the impact of your solution?

Approximately 700,000 people have been involved with the Permaculture community internationally, and information on this event has also been disseminated to the current and past Peace Corps Workers.

FACTORfiction vs. FRIEND²O²Rfoe

Created on 08/14/2009 by leo_hphp@yahoo.ca

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What is identity and do you have a right to one; were you born with it or was it loaned to you to return upon death? What is Copyright and have you copied right or wrong? If LIFE was not OPEN SOURCE what would we breathe...am i an example of life or death These questions, along with many more about "Public Domain" have interested the members of teamLEOnardo [since Leonardo da Vinci left his work to our hands, understanding, and/or overstanding?].

SAEP: South African Education and Environment Project

Created on 08/14/2009 by lindseywitmer

Small, award-winning education non-profit serving the children and youth of Cape Town's informal settlements.

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"Every Seed/Child Must Grow!" not GMO...

Created on 07/29/2009 by leo_hphp@yahoo.ca

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Aloha, we're glad you could make it. Please, pull up a shell & take your SEED-cause i know you've been standing on your feed, all day long! 'Fir starters, i hope i one: don't bore you with grammer mistakes [test: we have to be really honest to discuss such important itsyuoes] and two: if you cud see how missing peaces land exxxtraaaa letters make DNA, AND or DAN, then you May understand what some people mean when they say BOOOOoooooHoooOo for GMO (GenModOrg) and EHYA i mean YEAH for GmO (Good/God made Optimism).

LEO - Low Earth Orbit - HPHP - Human Powered Helicopter Project

Created on 07/6/2009 by leo_hphp@yahoo.ca

LEO: an airborne cycle for personal, sport & public transportation. As bicyclings Wright Brothers are Changemakers of a generation, LEO is a record-setting, environmental, hovering inspiration born of da Vinci's sketches/memory & handed to us to enter Igor I. Sikorsky's competition: http://vtol.org/awards/hph.html

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Organisation: LEO - Low Earth Orbit - An End to Poverty Visit website plus ↓↑ cacher ↑ cacher

Section 1: About You

Prénom

a

Nom

b

Adresse électronique

leo_hphp@yahoo.ca

URL du site Web

http://www.youtube.com/user/PedalLEOtour2010LIVE

Organisation

LEO - Low Earth Orbit - An End to Poverty

Pays

Canada

Section 2: About Your Organization

Nom

LEO - Low Earth Orbit - An End to Poverty

Site Web

http://www.youtube.com/user/PedalLEOtour2010LIVE

Téléphone

5148452654

Adresse

Montreal, Quebec

Pays

Canada

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Are you a traveler or travel company?

Oui

Name Your Project

LEO - Low Earth Orbit - HPHP - Human Powered Helicopter Project

Country your work focuses on

nd

What is the likely impact of your idea? (150 words max)

Earth impact: from bicycle enthusiasts to an airplane industry, from E=mc² to breakthroughs in science & technology in far less time & even less time from Burt Rutan, Richard Branson & Dr. Peter H. Diamandis to a thriving 'public' space industry & FROM ACROSS TIME, Leonardo's drawings flew into teamLEOnardo's hands, to inspire travel starved minds & bodies exhausted by imposing immigration rules, to ignite human awareness of our ability to reverse climate change. With help from our hp-friends, Greg @ http://www.pedaltheocean.com/ & Marcelo @ http://xof1.com/ LEO educates through imagination by turning history's wrongs into rights, by saying 'YES WE CAN' to a human-solar powered future. As “Earthlings”, we need to take transportation into our hands; as adults, we need to leave a legacy of following through with childhood inspirations/innovations &/or life-dreams! LEO, impacting HEARTS, MINDS & BODIES beyond age, gender &/or past failures in another’s hand is our…DREAM IMPACT!

Why is promoting global travel and engagement important? What makes your idea innovative? (200 words max)

Global (or further than yesterday) travel is the cornerstone upon which all nations (dreams) were built. Through thick & thin, engagement was the tool through which Intellectual Property could be shared, benefiting everyone involved. Centuries of innovation with Chinese hovering toys have circumnavigated Earth, inspiring American dreamers (Canadian, USian, Mexican), giving flight to countless conversations & innovations in aeronautical design. Naturally, our mission/our flight plan, is… the freedom to hover & roam… LEO is our seed of innovation on the wing! Next, we plant/partner LEO with eco- & geo-tourism & development projects to encourage global tourism; to offer a new & very important perspective of the land where “the people live” & to personally engage humanity with the most natural & pleasing resource available, to flying creatures; the beauty & fragility of our planet, from above! It’s teamLEOnardo’s dream that it’s important to you, that LEO’s… DREAM AWAKENS!

Describe Your Idea

LEO: an airborne cycle for personal, sport & public transportation. As bicyclings Wright Brothers are Changemakers of a generation, LEO is a record-setting, environmental, hovering inspiration born of da Vinci's sketches/memory & handed to us to enter Igor I. Sikorsky's competition: http://vtol.org/awards/hph.htmlLearning from all who have tried/died trying: http://www.humanpoweredhelicopters.org/sikorskyprize/index.htm pledge to innovation. Wonderful: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=caHCbuh_Yyc Thanks Prof Naito!

What would it take to launch or spread your idea? How much would it cost to make your idea a reality? (150 words max)

Reality? HISTORIC EVENT! LEO prepares to win Sikorsky's Competition. The human & solar powered (public) transportation dream is realized as the healthy choice for billions. A change in human being/mobility requires new immigration laws. Earth from above, in Condé Nast Traveler’s 2nd article, PedalLEOtour2010: raising the ‘travel bar’ to hovering above GREEN, helps to sustain a human powered (helicopter) industry. Global relations change. After dreaming up a ‘far-fetched-flying idea’ my Wright Brothers must have wondered if bicycles would be ‘sustained’ by 'twittering, innovating or recycling' their inventions. SO, sustaining LEO is in the hands of the hungry! The REALITY is the cost of life! With an ability to willingly cross borders, LEO announces the beginning of the END of POVERTY. Later, we upgrade LEO with a solar-electric engine giving older people a new way to explore retirement/a new life, encouraging youth to stay healthy & young. LEO's REALITY…POVERTY’s END…DREAM LAUNCH!

Describe your work as a social innovator (150 words max)

As Earthlings our work is so innovative, it is not yet well known worldwide, but greatly received in local regions. Our seed/kind of grassroots innovation comes from (35+) years of travel experience between the mates of teamLEOnardo. From Los Angeles to Nepal, Alaska to South America, India to Europe and Australia to Japan & many more places/routes in between, our unique brand of social innovation begins, where our birth places end - sowing in us all an indigenous nature to roam - free from the ignorance of borders in our new global village, Earth! In teamLEOnardo's workshop, the sound of social innovation is in the voices of contributors visiting their investment from time to time, where helping out gives them a "hands on" experience of home/hand-made fun, education & community supported activity! The PedalLEOtour2010 will be LEO's way of giving back to all the 'global villages' visited along the way. For teamLEOnardo, social innovation is giving LEO your 'two cents' by reserving a pilot's seat in your name with comments & suggestions, by pitching in where LEO needs help, & by reminding others to stay tuned for Hover Day. VOTE for your FREEDOM, earthling, thank you! DREAM SHARED!

Please send me more information about Conde Nast Traveler and special offers

Yes, I would like more information about Conde Nast Traveler and special offers.

MARIA MOTHER OF CHARITY RELIEF HOME

Created on 06/24/2009 by Mary Lusambo

ALLEVIATING POVERTY IN MY COMMUNITY THROUGH EDUCATION EMPOWERMENT BY OFFERING FREE EDUCATION AND INTRODUCING COMMUNITY SURVIVAL SKILLS FOR THE VULNERABLE.

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Project Street Address

Mungwi Road

Project City

Kasama

Project Province/State

Northern Province

Project Postal/Zip Code

+260/10101

Project Country

Zambia

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Country your work focuses on:

ZAMBIA

Website URL

http://www.nabuur.com/en/village/kasama

A quel étape votre projet en est-il ?

Operating for 1-5 years

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What is the average monthly household income in your target community, in US Dollars?

<$50

Name Your Project

MARIA MOTHER OF CHARITY RELIEF HOME

Describe Your Idea

ALLEVIATING POVERTY IN MY COMMUNITY THROUGH EDUCATION EMPOWERMENT BY OFFERING FREE EDUCATION AND INTRODUCING COMMUNITY SURVIVAL SKILLS FOR THE VULNERABLE.

Innovation

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Describe your idea in fewer than 50 words.

EMPOWER THE VULNERABLE SOCIALLY, ACADEMICALLY, ECONOMICALLY, POLITICALLY AND SPIRITUALLY SO THAT THEY COMPETE FREELY IN ALL LIFE CHALLENGES.

What makes your idea unique?

MY IDEA IS INDIGENOUS AND I AM DIRECTLY INVOLVED IN COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION.I AM PART OF MY COMMUNITY AND SO I AM ABLE TO INTERACT FREELY WITH THE TARGET GROUP AND GET THE FIRST FEEL OF WHAT AFFECTS THEM. I RELY ON WHAT I HAVE IN THE HANDS TO ACHIEVE WHAT I HOPE FOR.

I BELIEVE IN LOVE AND SELF CONVICTION WHEN DEALING WITH THESE SOULS AND I AM THEREFORE ABLE TO HELP THEM JOYOUSLY.

I HAVE MANAGED TO MAKE GROW THE CHARITY WITHOUT ANY KIND OF SUPPORT FROM EXTERNAL OR INDEED INTERNAL SOURCES. I HAVE MANAGED TO PRODUCE BREADWINNERS ALREADY WHO ARE AN ENCOURAGEMENT TO THIS NOBLE CAUSE.THIS IDEA HAS ACHIEVED ALOT.

THE SCHOOL HAS INTRODUCED AN ADULT LITERACY CENTER WHICH HAS SEEN A GOOD NUMBER OF PARENTS ENROLLED INTO DIFFERENT GRADES. THEY HAVE LIKED THE IDEA AND THEIR ACADEMIC RESPONSE IS POSITIVE.

WE ARE RUNNING OUR LESSONS USING AN EASY LEARNING TOOL CALLED"BREAKTHROUGH TO LITERACY". THIS IS A SYSTEM WHICH EMBRACES LEARNING IN A VERNACULAR LANGUAGE. THIS MAKES READING AND WRITING VERY EASY EVEN WHEN IT IS INTRODUCED IN AN OFFICIAL LANGUAGE.
BOTH ADULT PUPILS AND THE REGULAR PUPILS HAVE FOUND THIS TYPE OF LEARNING TO BE VERY INTERESTING.

What is your area of work? (Please check as many as apply.)

Enfants et Jeunesse, At risk youth , Behavioral issues , Boys' development , Child care , Child exploitation , Child labor , Child protection , Early childhood development , Education , Education reform , Girls' development , Mentorship , Play , Youth development , Youth leadership , Développement & prospérité, Adult education , Business , Communications , Community development , Consumer protection , Corporate social responsibility , Economic development , Employment , Energy , Fundraising , Globalization , Housing , Hunger , Income generation , Information technology , Infrastructure , Labor , Mentorship , Networking , Poverty alleviation , Rural development , Scholarships and grants , Social Enterprise , Sustainable development , Technology , Rural , Water , HIV/AIDS , Recreation , Sports , Substance abuse , Human Rights & Peace , Abuse and violence , Child exploitation , Civil rights , Conflict resolution , Gender equity , Human trafficking , Hunger , Indigenous cultures , Intercultural relations , Men's issues , Racial equality , Security , Tolerance , Vulnerable populations , Women's issues , Public Participation & Engagement , Citizen participation , Citizen sector , Corruption , Cultural preservation , Ethics , Intergenerational relations , Law , Mentoring , Public policy , Social work , Spirituality , Sports , Transparency , Volunteerism , Women's Issues , Youth leadership.

What impact have you had?

GREAT IMPACT AS I SEE SOCIAL, SPIRITUAL AND ECONOMIC TRANSFORMATION IN THE LIVES OF MY TARGET GROUPS.

Describe the primary problem(s) that your project is addressing.

POVERTY ALLEVIATION

Describe the steps that your organization is taking to make your project successful.

EMBARKED ON A SCHOOL PROJECT WHICH OFFERS FREE EDUCATION TO THE VULNERABLE CHILDREN AND ADULTS.
LINKING THE PROJECT WITH POSSIBLE FUNDING AGENCIES WHO SHALL HELP US GROW STABLE INCOME GENERATING ACTIVITIES.

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What will it take for your project to be successful over the next three years? Success in Year 1:

INTRODUCTION OF A MODERN BOARDING FACILITY ACCESSIBLE BY FEE-PAYING STUDENTS AS AN INCOME GENERATING ACTIVITY ALSO BENEFITING PUPILS WHO CAN NOT ACCESS THE SCHOOL DUE TO THE DISTANCE BETWEEN THE SCHOOL AND THEIR HOMES.

Success in Year 2:

INTRODUCTION OF A SKILLS TRAINING CENTER EQUIPPED WITH WOOD/METAL WORKSHOP MACHINERY, SEWING MACHINES, KNITTING MACHINES ETC.. FOR SERVICING THE VULNERABLE BUT INDIRECTLY ACTING AS AN INCOME GENERATING ACTIVITY.

Success in Year 3:

INTRODUCTION OF MODERN SOCIAL AMENITIES WHICH SHALL ATTRACT MANY FEE-PAYING PUPILS TO THE SCHOOL THEREBY BROADENING THE INCOME BASE FOR THE GOOD OF SELF-SUSTENANCE.

Do you have a business plan or strategic plan? (yes/no)

NO
THE DUTCH STUDENTS AT WORLD SCHOOL ARE DEVELOPING A BUSINESS PLAN AND A PROJECT PROPOSAL FOR US.

What are the three most important actions needed to grow your initiative or organization? STEP 1:

COMPLETE THE CONSTRUCTION AND FURNISHING OF THE SCHOOL INFRASTRUCTURE IN ORDER TO EXPAND THE SCHOOL INTO A FULL FLEDGED SCHOOL.

What are the three most important actions needed to grow your initiative or organization? STEP 2:

EQUIP THE SCHOOL WITH MODERN EQUIPMENT SUCH AS SCIENCE AND COMPUTER LABORATORIES IN ORDER TO EXPOSE OUR PUPILS TO FULL TECHNOLOGY AND ALSO ATTRACT MANY FEE-PAYERS WHO ARE THE MAIN SOURCE OF OUR INCOME.

What are the three most important actions needed to grow your initiative or organization? STEP 3:

ELECTRIFY THE SCHOOL SO THAT THE PUPILS WILL BE ABLE TO CONNECT TO THE GLOBAL NETWORK THROUGH INTERNET FACILITIES AND ALSO SEE THE PUPILS ACCESS MODERN EDUCATIONAL EQUIPMENTS WHICH NEED THE USE OF POWER(ELECTRICITY).

Describe the expected results of these actions.

EXTEND THE LEARNING OPPORTUNITY TO AS MANY VULNERABLE CHILDREN AND ADULTS THEREBY ERADICATING POVERTY IN MANY LIVELIHOODS.

What was the defining moment that led you to this innovation?

I GREW UP IN THESE COMMUNITIES AND MY PARENTS STRUGGLED TO GIVE ME AND THE REST OF MY FAMILY MEMBERS THE HUMBLE EDUCATION THAT WE HAVE TODAY. I HAVE PERSONALLY TESTED POVERTY AND SO I KNOW ITS IMPACT IN UNEXPLAINABLE TERMS.

Tell us about the social innovator behind this idea.

THE SOCIAL INNOVATOR BEHIND THIS IDEA IS THAT POVERTY WHICH HAS STRICKEN MOST HOMES IN MY COMMUNITY CAUSING YOUTHS TO RESORT TO SOCIAL VICES SUCH PROMISCUITY, THEFT,DRUNKENNESS AND THEREBY BRINGING FORTH INCURABLE DISEASES SUCH AS HIV/AIDS, SHALL BE REDUCED.

How did you first hear about Changemakers?

I FIRST HEARD ABOUT CHANGE MAKERS THROUGH "TEACH A MAN TO FISH" WHO SENT ME AN INVITATION TO PARTICIPATE IN THIS COMPETITION.

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What would prevent your project from being a success?

LACK OF INCOME GENERATING ACTIVITIES AND LACK OF INFORMATION LEADING TO POSSIBLE FUNDING AGENCIES.

Financing source

N

If yes, provide organization name.

N/A

How long has this organization been operating? (i.e. less than a year; 1-5 years; more than 5 years)

1-5 YEARS

Does your organization have a Board of Directors or an Advisory Board?

YES

Does your organization have any non-monetary partnerships with NGOs? (yes/no)

NO

Does your organization have any non-monetary partnerships with businesses? (yes/no)

NO

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Does your organization have any non-monetary partnerships with government? (yes/no)

YES

Please tell us more about how these partnerships are critical to the success of your innovation.

THE ZAMBIAN GOVERNMENT IS A STAKEHOLDER IN ALL EDUCATION RELATED BUSINESSES. IT ACTS AS A REGULATORY BOARD THROUGH THE MINISTRY OF EDUCATION AND IT INSPECTS ALL BUSINESSES TO MAKE SURE THAT THEY ARE IN CONFORMITY WITH THE SET RULES AND REGULATIONS.
GOVERNMENT ALSO SUPPORTS THE SCHOOLS BY ISSUANCE OF PRACTICING CERTIFICATES AND WHICH ARE AUDITED ANNUALLY. THEY ALSO PROVIDE US WITH TEACHING AIDS LIKE BOOKS(READERS) AND THEY INVITE US TO EDUCATIONAL WORKSHOPS AND SEMINARS.

How many people will your project serve annually?

100-1000

What is the total number of employees and total number of volunteers at your organization?

1 PRINCIPAL
1 SENIOR TEACHER
12 TEACHERS
5 CDEs

What is your organization's business classification?

Non-profit/NGO/citizen sector organization

Have you received funding from any of the following groups? (Please check as many as apply.)

Marshi Improvement Information Technology Education and Cyber School Project.

Created on 06/10/2009 by marshi

“The idea is to accelerate sustainable quality through a digitally technological inclusiveness for the poor , marginalized and vulnerable school children as a fundamental human rights for a sustained human development and equity, poverty reduction, HIV/Aids reduction, self reliance and timely global connectivity”

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Project Street Address

Bweri Area, Musoma Nyere road

Project City

Musoma

Project Province/State

Mara

Project Postal/Zip Code

+255

Project Country

Tanzania

Your idea

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Country your work focuses on:

Tanzania

Website URL

A quel étape votre projet en est-il ?

Operating for 1-5 years

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What is the average monthly household income in your target community, in US Dollars?

<$10

Name Your Project

Marshi Improvement Information Technology Education and Cyber School Project.

Describe Your Idea

“The idea is to accelerate sustainable quality through a digitally technological inclusiveness for the poor , marginalized and vulnerable school children as a fundamental human rights for a sustained human development and equity, poverty reduction, HIV/Aids reduction, self reliance and timely global connectivity”

Innovation

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Describe your idea in fewer than 50 words.

“The idea is to accelerate sustainable quality through a digitally technological inclusiveness for the poor , marginalized and vulnerable school children as a fundamental human rights for a sustained human development and equity, poverty reduction, HIV/Aids reduction, self reliance and timely global connectivity”

What makes your idea unique?

Marshi idea is not only unique but also relevant and appropriate. School children are sensitive to new ideas and have the capacity to grasp and absorb user and reader friendly ideas which they deem or perceive as closet to their hearts and mind. “bringing a live mouse into a classroom will often tease children and more often than not will raise several questions from the children”, remember, there is a semblance between a “live mouse and a microchip mouse”. At Marshi Academy, we want all pupils to differentiate between a mouse and a mouse”. The introduction of digital technological education as a mass -catch- up learning component will significantly transform the schools’ quest for quality learning environment hyperbolically relevant and appropriate.
➢ The pupils will start learning Information communication technology from nursery (age 4) up to the ladder, will access and surf the internet skills as well this an ability them to connect to the rest of globe in this fast trendy globe of super highway technology age. The concept’s reality will be witnessed where the small beds starts exchanging correspondences with newly acquired global peer friends, will improve their learning skills through self – study e-learning while taking all the advantages of e-library.
➢ The pupils will also be able to access HIV/AIDS information resources vide free access to e-resources, this will help build and improver the children’s human development equity and economics vis – a – vis self reliance preparedness, not withstanding extreme pertly reduction. This explains why the project in unique.

What is your area of work? (Please check as many as apply.)

Enfants et Jeunesse, At risk youth , Behavioral issues , Boys' development , Child care , Child exploitation , Child protection , Early childhood development , Education , Education reform , Girls' development , Play , Youth leadership , Communications , Design , Employment , Food security , Income generation , Information technology , Networking , Poverty alleviation , Social Enterprise , Sustainable development , Environnement et Durabilité, Environmental justice , Sustainable design , Waste and recycling , Health care , Health education , HIV/AIDS , Reproductive and maternal health , Sanitation , Sports , Wellness , Disability rights , Gender equity , Security , Tolerance , Vulnerable populations , Citizen participation , Ethics , Social work , Volunteerism .

What impact have you had?

Since the inception of information communication technology education and Cyber School project ,the applications skills associated with information technology for the few and have been limited to pupils in class 6 and 7 receptively. There have been a sustainable parents and guidance support network increasing local communities and local authorities’ awareness of ICT education and Cyber School and leading to improved access to quality education, social support for these poor and vulnerable children not withstanding.
It is noteworthy that the pupils have begun comparing the mathematical calculations inachiries like calculators, mathematical tables, and manual calculators with the ones in the software tools. Many pupils who have leant basic excel and foundation data base expressly state that with the comprises and internet access at Marshi Academy, they are able to quickly solve mathematical problems without any reference the foremen tined traditional methods. Many parents within the Marshi community have since made applications to enroll their children for information communication technology education and cyber school lessons, this in spite of the very limited opportunities and have formed parents peer support groups of tens with a view to enable them contribute membership fees for their children.

Describe the primary problem(s) that your project is addressing.

The marginalized poor children, vulnerable children, street children and
Deaf children in our community have community have been excluded from access to quality education, refection and completion; this is due to their lowest socio-economic status and recurring injustice. The situation is accentuated with food poverty, lack of fees to pay for tuition and procurements of school text books required by public schools, provable learning institutions is not within their imagination to access due to astronomically high fees charged by private owners and or investors.

The greatest problem which the project is addressing is the total exclusion of the poor children, vulnerable children street children and the deaf children in the digital technological worlds this is a fundamental human rights violations for these children, it is a deliberate attempt to permanently subject them to extreme vicious cycle of poverty; because of their poor background and law – socio-economic status, the educational regulatory authorities in Tanzania have never come up with a policy of prodding free ICT education to these target population. Whereas children from upper class income families and average income earning families continues to enjoy access to schools equipped with ICT education families thus making them relevant to info age of this dynamic globe, the reverse happens to children from the lowest income earning families, this notwithstanding the children from zero income earning families; this is the hide gap! The project is therefore an earliest entry point for Marshi Academy to help Improve access, retention and completion of digital technological education and cyber school services for the poor marginalized children, vulnerable children, street children and the deaf children who are enrolled at our education institution, so as to narrow the hide gap, to allow these poor population to maximize their quality learning opportunities which will make them complete with other peer children from able families, it will help enhance and restore human rights for these targeted population.

Describe the steps that your organization is taking to make your project successful.

Marshi Academy is currently undertaking a situational analyst and needs assessment study about the feasibility and viability of Information Communication technology education and cyber schools for Mara Region in Tanzania. The study invited participation of 13 primary school heads, 16 Secondary should heads, 8 representatives from parents association,3 representatives from the civil society groups and 2 education officers from the ministry of education and vocational training in Mara region in Tanzania

The participants are activity hooding group focused participatory meetings and awareness creative for the project with our institution taking a lead in ICT and cyber school resource’s mobilization. The institution has had series of pre-planned meeting with officials, teachers and sub-ordinate staffs, school children are constantly briefed about the impending project, arrangements for class room renovations are taking shape while ICT furniture and fittings is in progress in readiness for mass catch up ICT education and cyber school lessons for immediate take off, differential peer committee levels with well defined roles have been set up to ensure effective and efficient implementation of the project. The organization is identifying ICT tools, internet tools and other needed resources and levels of personnel to take charge of training of our pupils.

The project implementation officials will hold focused and pre-planned meetings; will recruit project staffs i.e. project coordinator, ICT trainers, project accountant, project admin secretary; 2 project support assistants; project cyber café administrator and 3 cyber school assistants.

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What will it take for your project to be successful over the next three years? Success in Year 1:

This year will see procurement of ICT fools stationers, training manuals furniture and fittings, internet facilities; recruitment of project staff i.e coordinator, accountant and IT trainers, cyber school administrators and support staffs; designing of policies, rules and regulations governing the project running; there will be pre-planned meetings for officials and staff: followed by organized quarterly seminars and workshops; there will be publicity, awareness and advocacy for the project launch using flyers, banners, brochures and posters so the public and community be informed about the project; enrollment of students/other trances and learning process to continue including organized practical’s and theory examinations and certificates issued after every three mouth: there will be two learning sessions i.e normal (from 8.00 a.m to 4.00 p.m ) and 5.00 p.m to 7.00 p.m) from Monday to Friday; while cyber school services and other series will be pronsed as from 7.00a.m to 10.00 p.m everyday; inclusive project stakeholders and reporter submitted to all parties; these will be annual project and it in order to ensure transparency

Success in Year 2:

The project marketing and publications will continue more aggressively in years 2 with new product range introduced; the latest Microsoft windows will also be introduced to students, trainees; there will be more research to students, trainees; there will be more research and development conducted by the project staffs in order to keep pace with innovations and diversified products for customers retention and new ones, satisfaction not withstanding; there will be increased enrollments of new students, trainees and additional customers attracted to diversified project services; will ensure attractive and affordable prices which are completive to all and second to non of our competitors; students will be offered free ICT education training while school leavers will be offered free stage 1 Microsoft office training packages but will pay fees as from stage 2; will introduce bonuses to customers; entry prize a ward competitions eligible to pupils and different prize awards to commercial customers. We will procure more desktop computers and laptop for education, training and cyber case use so as to student computer ratio; this will engrave quality access to ICT for students and to others; regular monitoring and evaluation and annual and it will be upheld; all these will be our success in year 2.

Success in Year 3:

The year will begin with review of the 1st two years project development using swot analysis; we will continue to enroll more pupils and other trainees; adopt new customer retention strategies while attracting new clients; we’ll continue with introduction of new product range; latest Microsoft windows also to put on offer; this year will see many pupils gaining excellent training of trainers skills and thus becoming peer ICT (TOTS) and used by the Institution as very resourceful persons; more entry competition price awards for pupils and customers will maintained; all will be winners in different categories this will entice our project beneficiaries; there will be more community support; more collaborating partners and networks invited thus helping strengthen our organization/project.

Do you have a business plan or strategic plan? (yes/no)

We have both a business plan and strategic plan.

What are the three most important actions needed to grow your initiative or organization? STEP 1:

The most important actions needed to grow our initiative will be ensure the following activities.
• Pre-planned meetings (officials)
• Seminars for officials and staffs (quarterly)
• Seminars for community leaders (quietly)
• Procurement of ITC tools, coevals
• Recruitment of ICT trainers and other staffs
• Advertising and social marketing of the Initiative
• Enrolling pupils, retaining and ensuring completion of studies; learning and examinations
• Daily monitoring and evaluation involving teachers, pupils and officials

What are the three most important actions needed to grow your initiative or organization? STEP 2:

More regular meeting and seminars to be up hold; ensuring all enrolled pupils have adequate ICT tools and learning materials; sponsoring trainers for further in-house training in order to continued offering quality services; more research and development activities to be up hold;
• Practical and theory lessons will be conducted weekly to all pupils
• Introduction of a one- stop – stop at the Cyber School will more instinctive more lively; this will be a 24 hour service with staffs waking in shifts.
• We will indent to attract more clients compounded with our new entrant diversified product range in the market is while maintaining market leadership.
• Mandatory annual and it to ensure.

What are the three most important actions needed to grow your initiative or organization? STEP 3:

• Review of the activities of the 1st and 2nd step.
• Increased enrolment for pupils and to introduce ICT education that pays for itself.
• Pupils to be actively involved in training their peers that’s those who had been identified as (TOT’s), this will make other new pupils to learn faster.
• More pupils will also be used as peer cyber school administrators at the cyber café
• Enrollment of new local and international collaborating partners
• Ensure consistent and regular examinations to the pupils.
• Uphold mandatory crudités to help enhances greater accountability and transparently.
• Constant research and development to continue
• Release of newsletters for the schools highlighting the project activities and successes
• Develop web and hosting
• Introduce partnerships and networking

Describe the expected results of these actions.

The expected results of those actions are stated as hereunder
The poor needy orphans and vulnerable
➢ Pupils will have increased access to information communication technology education and training skills thus enhancing their digitally technological inclusiveness vis-à-vis increasing human nights for these marginalized population
➢ These children’s increased access to the cyber school services will help info we their global digital connectively thus enhances accelerated quality learning i.e e-learning; e-health recourses e-sports, e-children relevant in their sustainable child development and global knowledge sharing
➢ There will be increased institutions sustainability due to more diversified product range associated with ICT education and cyber school
➢ Increased community support through groups

What was the defining moment that led you to this innovation?

. Our school administration some pupils had a one week tour to Kenya; to visit venin’s schools to see how fellow peer pupils learn; we visited 4 schools in 2 schools, we fund agricultural school enterprise introduced and pupils here themselves actively involved in groaning of tomatoes, vegetables and passions which they sell; these kids financed their education without compromising their quality learning. In the other 2 schools, we found school children learning computers and browsing the internet, the kinds were as small as 4 years, more interesting was the fact that these 2 schools were located in rural villages; the pupils in these schools share one computer for 20 pupils and it learning was going on with pupils very happy, we noticed these judging from their faces, questions and answers our pupils and teachers were lost for words; we could see sadness on the face of our poor pupils who felt something missing and or lost; on our return journey to Tanzania, many pupils asked us many questions then we could answer; this worked the beginning of our plans to start up this initiative; we commissioned a need assessment study lasting 21 days; prepared of business plan and a strategic plan.

Tell us about the social innovator behind this idea.

There is need to keep pace and to maintain relevance in the society we live. The globe has become rapidly trendy. Complex and intuitive, while population keeps growing daily, the resources a mind the population growth gets strained, depleted and scores; the environmental situation is even getting more challenging due to HIV/AIDS epidemic not sparing even school children, poor orphans and the like is the children across the globe is constantly subjected to neglect, Isolation child slavery, abuse and other forms of ills, malnutrition etc. Many helpless children have been denied access to quality education; excluded in the digital technology while also facing diverse forms of poverty and other economic injustice
➢ Our project envision a just and equitable society where the level ground for children irrespective of their social and economic status and background; to narrow the wide gap and to increase inclusiveness in the provision of qualitative and qualitative learning; we see our idea as the most relevant, appropriate, feasible and viable and the single innovator with multiplier benefits to this once forgotten population; the idea will help overcome all odds and create a level playing field all the pupils and other stakeholders if replicated to other schools in Tanzania

How did you first hear about Changemakers?

First heard about the change makers through the Tanzania representative

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What would prevent your project from being a success?

If you fail to plan then you must plan to fall our project is founded on a carefully
thought out plan with set goals, mission, objectives strategies and measurable indicators; our project success is pegged around the following;
➢ Financial sustainability:
We levy fees to various customized trainer clients; charge fees for diversified product range i.e. business cards, posters, flyers secretarial services’; Internet braising services; while offer tree training to our students. The prices we charge are competitive, affordable and help increase our volume of sales thus posting expected surplus to father improve the financial base of the project
➢ Market and Research development
We adopt aggressive marketing; advertisement for our many production, adopt a customer retention strategy; offer law prices and maintain high quality ICT education and cyber café services so as to concavity increase volume of trade; more enrollments for trainees/pupils and new customers; new innovation to attract more customers; this boost our sustainability so we continue with our leadership

➢ Institution capacity building training
Organized in –house training and seminars to our officials, staffs and project staffs ensure guaranteed quality service delivery this will make sure mountain relevance and appropriateness .We will train school children on ICT technical aid to become peer ICT technical aid TOTs so that we maintain our local ICT technicians as school pupils, this will technically sustain our project
Community support and Partnerships.
We enjoy optimum support from the community due to our participatory approaches in initial project design planning and implementation; the communities see this project as their 5 they have vowed to support it to the later. We endeavor to increase national and global partnerships to help improve our sustainability base. We plan to establish Marshi Community ICT Schools Trust Fund, an independent entity which will draw her leadership within this community and will manage and lobby for ICT tools, will conduct research and development and will formulate policies for ICT for schools and petition various software providers to help improve access to ICT education for school children We however see poor economic performance by our government which may farce it to introduce taxation to ITC tools; this may make procurement of ICT for schools expensive; the new software vials may also success of our project

Financing source

No

If yes, provide organization name.

How long has this organization been operating? (i.e. less than a year; 1-5 years; more than 5 years)

1-5 years

Does your organization have a Board of Directors or an Advisory Board?

Yes, functional 12 members

Does your organization have any non-monetary partnerships with NGOs? (yes/no)

Yes

Does your organization have any non-monetary partnerships with businesses? (yes/no)

Yes

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Does your organization have any non-monetary partnerships with government? (yes/no)

Yes

Please tell us more about how these partnerships are critical to the success of your innovation.

Our organization is founded on the following principle tenets’, partnerships,
Networking, collaboration, volunteerism, equity among others. Our belief is that, together as one we stood, we build ourselves, streghten and maximize our diverse potentials. Partnership enhances increased sustainability, through shared experiences and efforts; there are needed resources beyond our means and through expanded partnerships, we are able to acquire these resources at a considerably faster and convenient means; so it is critically significant that we continue to build on partnership for continued accelerated sustainable development and to optimize our achievement

How many people will your project serve annually?

1001-10,000

What is the total number of employees and total number of volunteers at your organization?

30 employees, 25 volunteers

What is your organization's business classification?

For-profit

Have you received funding from any of the following groups? (Please check as many as apply.)

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EcoPlayGround

Created on 05/31/2009 by AllenHahn

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Project Street Address

1411 East End Ext.

Project City

Pittsburgh

Project Province/State

PA

Project Postal/Zip Code

15218

Project Country

États Unis

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Name Your Project

EcoPlayGround

Describe Your Idea

The project will give Pittsburgh youth a chance to design and play games that express their perspective on local environmental concerns. The project is a hybrid of theatre, and game play mixed with community engagement. Such cross-pollination of forms is important both to the evolution of the forms themselves, but most importantly to engaging young audiences and demonstrating the value of art in understanding and engaging the world around them. There is no greater issue confronting the world’s population today than environmental degradation. While today’s adults debate ways of beginning to address these problems, it is today’s youth who will have to implement solutions. This experience will foster concrete understanding of environmental issues and create a personal investment in successful solutions.

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What is your idea? What makes your project innovative? Why is it important?

EcoPlayGround will work with Pittsburgh youth to design and create an interactive theatre/game that takes players on a journey as they explore an ecologically significant site in the city. With the guidance of a team of adults, a core creative group of youths will explore Pittsburgh’s ecology and the legacy of the region’s manufacturing industry and overlay their own perspective to devise a story about the world they will inherit. They will then turn their story into a game to be played by other youths in which narrative, clues, and instructions will be relayed via mobile phone—already the preferred mode of communication for today’s young audience.
As we evolve from passive media consumption into a culture of participation enabled by technology, existing art forms must adapt to youth interests and perspectives about the world. Projects that use games to develop interest and activism in tomorrow’s leaders will be critical to their success in confronting these complex issues.

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What will be the impact of your idea?

Creating a story/game that integrates their own ideas with their investigation of ecological issues will give young people the agency to use what they learn in ways that they themselves define.
Playing the game will awaken a deeper, more concrete understanding of the environment and its impact on players’ well-being and create investment in a healthy ecology. Players will also need to rely on teamwork to solve the game’s challenges and ensure a successful outcome.
For both groups, the collective engagement needed to succeed will foster a sense of community and model the collaborative effort necessary to find solutions to environmental problems in the real world.
Broader impact will come from testing a new model for civic engagement by youth that fosters inquiry and creativity in equal measure. The project methodology will be thoroughly documented and offered as an open source model on which other youths can build in telling new stories about issues specific to their communities.

What will it take to launch your idea? How will you secure community support and youth participation?

We will seek young creators from schools whose goals align with EcoPlayGround, and who can include the project in classroom syllabi for the coming school year to launch the finished game in the fall of 2010.
Existing technology could support a basic treasure-hunt style game. Costs to augment this could range from $5 to $25k depending on the complexity of the system required. The game is one of exploring existing spaces, so the technology can be scaled to fit the budget without diminishing the core experience.
CMU will offer seed money through The Performance and Ecology Initiative, directed by Wendy Arons. We will seek to partner with local research and tech concerns to adapt technology for the game. Additional funding may be sought based on the success of those efforts.
Other costs toward which the requested $25k will be allocated include fees for principal artist, Allen Hahn, to oversee the project, and for experts in education/outreach and game design to assist in its implementation.

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We are looking for ideas from people who can make them happen. Tell us about yourself or your team.

Allen Hahn’s lighting design work has been seen all over the US and in festivals and opera houses across Europe. He considers light and space to be primary influences on character actions in the drama. His latest work explores using the narrative possibilities of found spaces in the city to imagine the city’s past and spark creative thought and dialogue about its future.
Wendy Arons is a Professor of Drama at Carnegie Mellon University. She has worked on numerous devised performance pieces, and as Director of CMU's Performance and Ecology initiative she will be organizing an Eco-drama Festival in Fall 2009.
Both project directors have professional experience with pioneering companies in devised theatre and are well suited to expand this paradigm outside the theatre. We have strong relationships in local arts and technology communities from which additional team members will be sought based on their expertise and their belief in the project’s vision of a vibrant youth voice in Pittsburgh.

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Voices of Youth Pittsburgh Prayer Wheels

Created on 05/27/2009 by pageks

“Pittsburgh Prayer Wheels” is a youth-driven project. A group of CAPA HS students as “Youth Voices of Pittsburgh” will involve the city’s youth in the creation of public artworks that give voice to their ideas and allow for community reflection on them.

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Project Street Address

1307 Sherman Avenue

Project City

Pittsburgh

Project Province/State

PA

Project Postal/Zip Code

15212

Project Country

États Unis

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Voices of Youth Pittsburgh Prayer Wheels

Describe Your Idea

“Pittsburgh Prayer Wheels” is a youth-driven project. A group of CAPA HS students as “Youth Voices of Pittsburgh” will involve the city’s youth in the creation of public artworks that give voice to their ideas and allow for community reflection on them.Through neighborhood and virtual forums, workshops and a blog site, all youth would be invited to voice their ideas and concerns. Traveling studios and on-line submissions would permit the participants to translate their voices into visual references, or “sketches”. These “sketches” could contain symbols, words, drawings, poems, etc., and would be incorporated onto the surface of multiple rings. Referencing the Tibetan prayer wheel, these rings would be assembled to make large “prayer wheels”, will be fabricated in aluminum and recycled materials, all sustainable, and would be installed along the city’s rivers. The cylinders will rotate as they are touched, allowing for an immediate multi-sensory experience with the work and encouraging a contemplative response to the youths’ diverse ideas.

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What is your idea? What makes your project innovative? Why is it important?

The goal of innovation is positive change, to make someone or something better. This project is innovative in that it infuses an Eastern Traditional Object with Contemporary Western Youth voices, with young people collaborating for positive change. In a world growing increasingly smaller, yet seemingly more divided, it is important that young people develop skills to communicate their ideas in a team setting and in a visual language, across cultures. We also hope to harness wind, water, or solar energy to power a continual rotation of the Youth Voices Prayer Wheels. As the Tibetan tradition states, the more the wheels rotate, the more positive energy is released.

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What will be the impact of your idea?

Plugged in, signed on, down-loaded and thinking – this project initiates on-line and real-time collaborations between neighborhoods, schools, youth groups, artists, community members, professionals, and cultural institutions to establish a forum for the Voices of Pittsburgh Youth.

This project creates a forum for the youth of our area to voice their concerns and ideas. In many circumstances teenagers are considered to be threatening and it is imperative that they are allowed a safe, considerate, and appropriate place to state their opinions.

Through the project’s website and blogspot, anyone can analyze and respond to their opinions, ideas, voices and concerns.
The blogspot will become the arena for the dissemination of information and place for open creative dialogue. At the on-site forums and workshop the youth will make art that reflects their own take on the issues about which they are most concerned. They will create this piece. We, as adult artists, will only help to facilitate the final design.

While the Voices of Youth can develop over the Internet, it is also imperative that the participants become receptive to new ideas as well as develop their individual pursuits. The spinning prayer wheels allow for a collaborative collage of ideas. It is our responsibility as adult artists to suggest and mitigate the final results.

There can be virtual exhibitions of submitted work as well as exhibitions in related communities. We feel that we can incorporate many voices in many areas with our idea.

What will it take to launch your idea? How will you secure community support and youth participation?

We are all adjunct art instructors at CAPA High School and therefore have a very willing pool of talent to draw from. We also have built strong collaboration partnerships with The Andy Warhol Museum and The Mattress Factory.

The project will be launched by the CAPA HS “Community Art Ambassadors” who will create a website and blog for the project, send out e-vites, create Facebook events, and contact the city papers. Additionally, solicitations will be made through the Pittsburgh Public and Private Schools teacher networks.

Libraries and other safe havens would be the sites for the forums, while the traveling studio could take place at parks, youth centers (such as Sarah Heinz House), The Warhol Museum, The Mattress Factory, or schools.

The website and blog will document and record the process and disseminate the schedule of forums/workshops and will include a digital exhibition of works in progress.

The construction of the cylinders would become community events.

The $25,000 budget will cover costs of art materials, casting expenses, stipends and honorariums.

We would pursue additional funding through donations of materials.

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We are looking for ideas from people who can make them happen. Tell us about yourself or your team.

Karen Page has received many awards including an NEA Visual Arts Fellowship, a PA Council on the Arts Crafts Fellowship, and a Surdna Art Teacher Fellowship.
- MFA (Kent State University), BFA (Syracuse University)

Carley Parrish has been awarded multiple public art commissions as well as grants for staging hot metal pours with young people.
- BFA (University of NY at Buffalo)

Shannon Pultz, a member of the art collective, Art Club2000, has exhibited in NYC, Europe and Mexico.
- Previous Editor of the English edition of the art magazine, Flash Art International.
- BFA (The Cooper Union), Art K-12 certified

We are all art adjunct instructors at CAPA HS (Textiles, Sculpture, and Printmaking respectively). We bring to this project our many years of experience as teaching and exhibiting artists. Our commitment is evidenced by our daily dedication to artistic expression, education, and specifically problem-solving through the creative process as we work with and empower youth to realize their artistic voice.

Please join us for the closing reception of our students’ exhibition at Eastside Gallery, May 29 from 6-9pm.

Global Art Expeditions

Créé: 05/21/09 par gina paoli

Emplacement

main san francisco

États Unis

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Best idea to spread imaginative creative constructive community developement around the world, not just in developing nations but at home where we have similar social issues and poverty.

great work.

good luck

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Peindre en vert la Maison Blanche: Van Jones mène l´initiative des verts à Washington, D. C.

Créé: 05/21/09 par andrea boston

L´infatigable activiste Van Jones – s´occupant de la défense des droits de l´homme jusqu´à l´environnement- arrive à la Maison Blanche en tant que conseiller spécial des affaires concernant l´environnement, pour la création d´ emploi visant à améliorer l´utilisation efficace de l´énergie et des ressources renouvelables.

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Un sanctuaire au bout du monde

Créé: 05/21/09 par Anonymous

Photos Lucas Chiappe

M. Lucas Chiappe, eco-activiste, producteur et photographe de la spectaculaire Patagonie argentine, est le leader d´une coalition internationale avec une vision audacieuse: la création d´un sanctuaire entourant la partie inférieure de la planète afin de préserver les terres du sud- la plupart, des forets. Le sanctuaire de la Foret de Gondwana c´est le premier projet pour la conservation de millions d´hectares de forets sur quatre pays.

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Learning Lights: Solar Reading Light

Created on 05/20/2009 by geniusidealady

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Project Street Address

Kanyamfua Secondary School

Project City

Kanyamfua

Project Province/State

Nyanza Province

Project Postal/Zip Code

Kanyamfua, Nyanza

Project Country

Kenya

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Country your work focuses on:

Kenya

Website URL

http://www.learning-lights.com

A quel étape votre projet en est-il ?

Idea phase

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What is the average monthly household income in your target community, in US Dollars?

<$50

Name Your Project

Learning Lights: Solar Reading Light

Describe Your Idea

"Learning Lights" is a solar reading light kit put together by children similar to a model building kit. When completed it demonstrates the practical application of solar technology to provide a simple solution. A reading light used for children’s study, women’s handicraft work, adult literacy.

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Describe your idea in fewer than 50 words.

Learning Lights creates solar literacy by equipping people with knowledge, experience, and raw materials to create solar products and solutions to their individual and community power needs. We make solar technology understandable and available to every person, encouraging people to think about solar as a solution to their energy needs.

What makes your idea unique?

Our goal is solar literacy. Learning Lights Workshop and Solar Reading Light kit are designed to foster understanding of solar energy and its use to solve community needs. We put solar components in the hands of students, have them create a reading light, ask them what else they can create, and share their designs. Creating solar learning communities across Kenya and the United States.

Learning Lights Workshop & Kit

• Demonstrates practical application of solar energy
• Build solar reading light
• Fills need for reading light in rural communities
• Promotes Collaborative Science thru website, letter writing, sharing knowledge and design ideas.

The candle effect. One candle in the darkness doesn't give much light; but if each of us is holding a candle we can light up the room. Once taught to make a light, what else can students dream up? Can we use the solar cell to create a radio? What else is needed? As energy demands increase, how do we create a charger for a cell phone? How about when we learn to build a simple solar cell? Imagine a hundred children in a village that know how to make a solar cell, what would their collaboration create?

Teach the fundamentals of solar energy to "everyday" people and provide them with low-cost materials. What practical solutions would they invent? How would they solve their own problems? What would be their priorities? Think about what lower cost micro-computers and internet access, in the hands of children, have yielded in less than a generation in the United States.

What is your area of work? (Please check as many as apply.)

Enfants et Jeunesse, Education , Youth development , Community development , Design , Economic development , Income generation , Social Enterprise , Sustainable development , Technology , Environmental justice , Renewable energy , Rural .

What impact have you had?

What we do: create solar energy literacy

In modern times it is understood that everyone should have a basic education; that reading, writing, and math literacy should be a part of every individuals’ basic skill set in order for them to be successful. We contend that energy is a crucial social justice issue. People and countries can empower themselves by having knowledge about energy alternatives. It is our belief that communities that are not already tied to an energy source have a historic opportunity to create their own energy solutions. For communities near the equator harnessing solar energy may allow them energy independence from oil-producing countries or from burning virgin wood for fuel.
Social Justice Implications

• Education – provides light for students to study
• Community - create solar literacy to empower energy choices
• Clean burning – alternatives such as kerosene create health & environmental issues
• Inexpensive – individual solutions provide less costly solar solutions
• Income Options – individuals can add solar energy knowledge to their marketable skills
• Energy Independence – Solar energy usage can decrease dependence upon outside energy sources

We are in the initial phase. The prototype kit has been developed, one workshop taught in Kenya to 30 students, several presentations in United States. Detailed business plan available upon request including Social Return On Investment (SROI) breakdown.

Describe the primary problem(s) that your project is addressing.

Providing reading light to people in rural communities. Create global literacy in solar technologies.

Describe the steps that your organization is taking to make your project successful.

Created prototype Learning Lights Reading Kit
Developed curriculum for workshop
Wrote business plan
Developed website and opened blog
Taught workshop in Kenya, March 2009
Invoked interest in Kenya with University of Mesano, the Jua Kali, KIRDI, and the cities of Kisumu and Mombasa
Give speaking presentations in United States

Impact social

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What will it take for your project to be successful over the next three years? Success in Year 1:

Distribute 60 kits in Kenya. Sell 120 kits in United States.
Lower price of kit, refine kit design
Meet with stakeholders in Kenya including members of Kirdi, Jua Kali, work with University of Mesano, cities of Kisumu and Mombasa.
Arrange workshops in United States
Raise money approx $80,000 USD
Update Website
Refine Learning Lights Workshop Curriculum

Success in Year 2:

Distribute additional 60 kits in Kenya. Sell 200 kits in United States
Make alliances with Jua Kali to have kits produced in Kenya.
Work with KIRDI to expand collaborative science program in Kenya.
Increase donor base.

Success in Year 3:

Distribute additional 60 kits in Kenya.
Stabilize donor base
Train teachers in Kenya and United states to lead workshop
Develop online sales for Learning Lights Kits

Do you have a business plan or strategic plan? (yes/no)

Yes.

What are the three most important actions needed to grow your initiative or organization? STEP 1:

Refine Prototype
Lower cost of Learning Light kit components. Locate sources, donations, enlist aid of solar technology companies and other stake holders in solar literacy. Get assistance in further testing of prototype.

What are the three most important actions needed to grow your initiative or organization? STEP 2:

Strength Distribution and communication vehicles
Develop stronger web presence, better website, blog and social networking. Strengthen alliances in Kenya with Jua Kali, KIRDI, secondary schools, women’s organizations. Test communication vehicles for collaborative science. Create board of directors. Begin online kit sales.

What are the three most important actions needed to grow your initiative or organization? STEP 3:

Raise money for next phase of growth, workshop and kit development.
Address any new challenges that arise as a result of earlier steps.

Describe the expected results of these actions.

These actions will result in a bringing together a team that committed to creating solar literacy and create a collaborative environment to further develop and distribute solar technology. We want to see solar technology used not just talked about.

What was the defining moment that led you to this innovation?

In March 2006 I was in Kenya with Cultural Reconnections Mission (CRM) and visited an orphanage that the group co-sponsors with Kenyan women. I had been there twice before, each time marveling at what was accomplished with the small amounts of money they jointly raised. The Patron took us inside to show the latest improvements. They were led into a large room, dark even in the daytime and he flipped a switch.
And the light came on. In this part of rural Kenya there is no electricity. This solar powered light would allow over 40 children to study after 6:30pm, sundown in Kenya. Solar installations of this type took a great deal of capital investment. It was worth every shilling. The children spoke to us about how much they enjoyed reading now that there was light. Some of the girls were planning to take exams to go to secondary school – a dream out of reach for most orphans.
The light had come on!
An idea had been brewing in my mind, teach solar energy to children and let them create their own solar reading lights? Surely it would take a smaller capital investment and the education would be invaluable to their future success. I spent more than a year designing Learning Lights solar reading light kit and interactive workshop. The intention is to teach people the principles of solar energy while making a solar reading light. And encourage them to use this knowledge to make other things they need – perhaps a solar cell phone charger? With the support of AAKEWO, the project arm of CRM, I have been able to continue the development Learning Lights. In March 2009 I taught the first Learning Light Workshop in Kenya.

Tell us about the social innovator behind this idea.

What we do: create solar energy literacy

In modern times it is understood that everyone should have a basic education; that reading, writing, and math literacy should be a part of every individuals’ basic skill set in order for them to be successful. We contend that energy is a crucial social justice issue. People and countries can empower themselves by having knowledge about energy alternatives. It is our belief that communities that are not already tied to an energy source have a historic opportunity to create their own energy solutions. For communities near the equator harnessing solar energy may allow them energy independence from oil-producing countries or from burning virgin wood for fuel.

A country of solar energy-literate citizens can create solutions to their own power needs by improving products and re-designing solar technologies.

Our goal is to provide the education, training and raw materials to teach solar principles while creating a simple practical solution to a problem – light for reading at night. We challenge our students to immediately customize the design to their individual and community needs.

How did you first hear about Changemakers?

Dr. Paul McCreary, professor Evergreen College

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What would prevent your project from being a success?

Risks associated with implementing the Learning Lights program including:

Underfunding in Kenya’s educational system. Integration in school curriculum requires adequate educational funding. While the 2003 law that abolished the fee-based school system made education accessible to many more children, class sizes are often large and schools unable to afford more teachers. Teachers may be unwilling or unequipped to teach solar energy in schools. Volunteer teachers from US may help.

Political instability remains a serious issue following the crisis that erupted in Kenya after the presidential election held on December 27, 2007. The government remains divided along party lines on how to improve social services such as education and may be unable or slow to act on changes to curriculum including teaching solar technology in the classroom. Partnerships with Women’s organizations may provide a solution.

Natural events. In addition to political barriers that may exist, natural occurrences such as drought and disease may limit children’s access to education and the benefits of solar light for study. The AIDS crisis has left many children orphaned and obligated to leave school and work to support surviving family members. Droughts and seasonal flooding destroy crops creating food shortages, limited income for parents to support education, and malnutrition for children. Lack of access to safe drinking water creates unsanitary conditions and health problems that keep children out of school.

Financing source

Y

If yes, provide organization name.

Cultural Reconnection Missions (CRM) and AAKEWO which is the project arm of CRM www.aakewo.com

How long has this organization been operating? (i.e. less than a year; 1-5 years; more than 5 years)

more than 5 years

Does your organization have a Board of Directors or an Advisory Board?

NO, not yet

Does your organization have any non-monetary partnerships with NGOs? (yes/no)

NO

Does your organization have any non-monetary partnerships with businesses? (yes/no)

NO

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Does your organization have any non-monetary partnerships with government? (yes/no)

NO

Please tell us more about how these partnerships are critical to the success of your innovation.

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How many people will your project serve annually?

Initially 100 Kenyan Students, 200 United States students

What is the total number of employees and total number of volunteers at your organization?

volunteers 1 full time, 4 committed volunteers, 50 casual volunteers

What is your organization's business classification?

Pas inscrit

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