All Blog Posts Tagged 'ACT1' (934)

The persons I choose to follow is Aviva Presser Aiden & Hugo Van Vuuren. They are a team who are working on creating microbial fuel cell. This cell is to meet the needs of off-grid lighting and energy in the developing world. It can power anything from cellphones to radios. Finding alternative fuel sources is very important for our continued development and survival and that is why I picked them. I am following them on their blog.

I picked Blake Mycoskie, the founder of TOMS shoes. Blake saw the need for shoes in Argentinean children and created TOMS shoes which gives one pair of shoes to a child in need for every pair bought. I am following him on Facebook.

I chose Mike Huckabee as my hero to shadow. In many ways i agree with his politics, but most of all i respect him for the advocacy work he does all over the world and his philanthropy. Huckabee uses his show not only to explore political issues he also uses it to explore social issues that effect people all over the world. I watch clips from his show to follow him.

My hero would have to be my Uncle Ches. He is currently working on obtaining his automotive mechanic certification. My uncle retired from the military almost 10 years ago. Instead of taking a very high paying military consulting/contractor job he chose to teach middle school. After e few years of doing so he felt a calling to the automotive field. His father owned a truck stop while he was growing up so I think it runs in his blood. After my uncle completes his automotive certificate he…

Paul Polak–founder of Colorado-based non-profit International Development enterprises (IDE)—is dedicated to developing practical solutions that attack poverty at its roots. He also wrote "Out of Poverty" a book that explains what he does.

For the past 25 years, Paul has worked with thousands of farmers in countries around the world—including Bangladesh, India, Cambodia, Ethiopia, Myanmar, Nepal, Vietnam, Zambia and Zimbabwe–to help design and

produce low–cost, income–generating…

My hero is Felix Finkbeiner. He is still is a kid but knows of the importance of fighting against certain problems in the world (like the climate change). I admire him for his doings!

For more information see:

http://www.plant-for-the-planet.org/en/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plant-for-the-Planet

I choose Roger Moore to shadow. I like him very much and he is quite pleasant. He engages in the UNESCO and in his own words that this is the most important thing he ever did. The world needs more of those people who do not rest on their achievements, but try to improve our community. He was a very successful actor and could have enjoyed the years after his career and not care about those things. But like many other important people in the retirement he uses his time to help our community…

My hero is called Deb Levine.Deb founded ISIS (Internet Sexuality Information Services). to build better tools to help give people private, convenitent, and accerate access to information on todays major health issues. ISIS is creating ways to help youth and adults lead safe, healthy and fulfilled lives. I think this is important to have everyone healthy and happy, so the world is a happy enviroment to be in.

the social innovater i have chosen has the names of, Paula Kahumbu.
She is a wildlife conservationist and she has a huge passion for what she does, she works in Nairobi in Kenya.
Her job has things to do with saving reserves for animals and to save the animals habitats and keep them safe. Paula has a lot to do in this very important industry, she is setting up a online global website so people can donate and check what the industry is up to.

I want to shadow Tori Hogan from http://www.beyondgoodintentions.org. She visits different places all over the world to uncover more innovative and effective approaches to international aid. On the website you can see 10 episodes of the beyond good intentions film series, which cover a variety of themes ranging from the role of aid workers and volunteers, to the potential impact of more innovative approaches to aid through…

My role model is my uncle David. In the Christchurch earthquake, he was awarded a medal of bravery for saving people in the CTV building (a very damaged building in the CBD) and he showed extreme commitment by trying to save those people's lives, even if it sometimes wasn't successful. He works as a counciller and he helps people sort out their troubles and worries. To me that is a very important job and he is an amazing role model to me.

I signed up with this thing called time bank you did work for other people and then earned your time by working and then you could spend time by getting people to work for you so you use labor to pay

My hero is my uncle Nick Harvey. He was a policeman in a place called Aramoana were this local gun fanatic named David Gray started going a bit crazy cause he thought everyone was against him and went on a rampage and killed 13 people, including many of my cousins (Nicks sons) friends. My uncle was going around and helping people and saving and hiding them from David Gray. There was this one little girl who was shot in the stomach and her guts and stuff were hanging out and Nick saved her…

He's just an ordinary person. He's not famous, not rich, but with his time and talent, he shows one can make a big difference. Narayanan Krishnan was an award-winning chef at Switzerland working at a 5-star hotel. He had a good job, was middle-class, and was living life great, but in 2002, he went to visit his home in India, and saw a man under a bridge eating his own human waste. He said “I saw a very old man eating his own human waste for food. It really hurt me so much. I was literally…

For me,it is difficult to choose a certain person as a hero.

I have read some articles about many people who are committed to improve the world and to tackle the world's biggest problems with creative solutions and entrepreneurial ventures. I'm amazed how many there are.

I can well imagine that it is very difficult to follow his goal respectively his wishes, because there are many problems which can arise.

So for me is a hero a human, who doesn't readily let things get him…

The person i choose is Dr. Tankred Stöbe CEO of the organization "Ärzte ohne Grenzen" who give medical aid to countries where the health care structure crashed down.
I follow them on facebook.

Everybody who wants to know more about them here is the link to the website:
http://www.aerzte-ohne-grenzen.de/index.html

The following person is one of many who are socially engaged. But he has found a solution to combine school and play with each other. The hero i have chosen is George Weah from Liberia. He grew up in a slum near Monrovia and escaped poverty with play football in europe. In 1994 he founded a football club to to encourage young people to remain in school. The club is the only requirement for membership is school attendance. In my opinion is the combination from school and play a wonderful kind…

Jason Aramburu is who I picked and I liked his work for re:char. I really like nature and I like what he is doing for it.

I choosed Joseph Brenyah as a hero because of his work to invent methods to produce industrial quality food and technonoligies with a less of money and complexity. I follow him on facebook, but he dindn't replied to my massage till today.

It might sound funny, but my hero is known as man who changed the world, but not like you would think.

He founded Microsoft and gave us Windows. He has named the wealthiest man in the world for serveral times.

His name is of course Bill Gates. Maybe he is a controverse entrepreneur, but this doensn't matter to me. It's his effort and persistence (, his money ...) that makes him -and of course his wife- important to the world. The Bill & Melinda Gates foundation promotes…