All Blog Posts Tagged 'Learn' (284)

A 13-year old Ugandan girl fights for children's rights

It is about a girl called Hakima, she is from Uganda. She has volunteered in child rights organization Plan International. She is leading child rights initiatives in her school and her community. This year she joined the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women they are focusing to stop violence against women and girls. She went to New York for this event to learn more things that effects women's and girls.

She…

This mission require me to find an interesting article and investigate it more. The website is called Women Watch and the article that I chose for this mission is "Violence against Women is not inevitable". 

In that article it says that violence is not inventible, everyone must end it…

Alternative Currency is a system to keep money circulating locally even longer, it's really good for local skills, products and reselling into the community. The benefits of Alternative Currency are it increased currency in the local area, increasing to local market and etc. Local currency is very useful, for example if we need money to build a market or motel, if we use local currency and then our business was not that successful and we need to close it down the money all still inside the…

In sub - Sahara Africa, more than 550 million people that live less than $2 a day. Each day is a struggle because it does not earn enough for their daily needs. Women have to take their own opportunities and, as well know it takes money to make money. In 1991 a group called "CARE" developed a way harness in a village in Southern Niger. In 2011, CARE have helped more than 7 million people to improve their household income. Woman do two third of the work but only get 10 % of the income.…

Money are used all around the world. There are a lots of disadvantages of money. First, as time flies the value of the money will be decreased, because the cost of the things that we buy will be increasing. Second, its a waste of paper, and people around the world or country will be touching the money. There will be full of bad germs. Third, long time ago people exchanged something that they want with something that they have, this is called trade. Even the poor people could get what they…

In this world that we live in, we always need something to survive. We as a human being can't have everything in our earth by ourself or monopolize it. We need to share or trade our resources that we have to people that don't have it, for example that person lacks of something but we have that person needs it so we can trade it. However as time goes by, we can't always carry our resources everywhere to be trade. The solution regarding this solution is a money. Money is a trading tools.…

I've been reading "World 1st International"

2.5 billion people world wide has no access of water and toilets and a lots of children die was water illness. A lots of children have a hard time because its a lot easier for the children to be sick and get disease. Most of the children in Ethiopia gets diarrhea and a lots of them get killed by it disease. Even though they survive from these kind of disease still their life will be different, and they are going to have a hard time living…

For this post, I need to find an individual or a group that has the creative idea to solve water crisis. In the end I choose this website called "http://www.water1st.org/". This website is telling us that there's an organisation that will help world poorest people to be able to access clean water. They belief that accessing water is basic human rights. They work in a country that only some people that can access to clean water. This country include, Honduras, Ethiopia, India and Bangladesh.…

My inspiring water project is Water For People. Their main mission is to treat people equally and giving them clean and save water. It says on their website that "Everyone should have improved water Forever. And we want to help them in reaching their goal, for every family, every clinic, and every school religious and districts where we work." Where I was watching water for people there's this guy who really inspire me. Ned Breslin, he is the CEO of water for people, he made a water pump…

After I search throughout the internet, I found Something amazing from Africa. Four girls Invented a urine Powered generator. The girls are Duro-Aina Adebola (14), Akindele Abiola (14), Faleke Oluwatoyin (14) and Bello Eniola (15). You May not believe it the first time you read this and say it's ridiculous, but let's not see it from the dirty sides but see it from the creative sides. I think that this idea is really creative because not only this idea is more cheap but it's also…

Every Human have their own ideas, and creativities. Mostly teenagers and children, they can create something new that people haven't invet yet. They can come out with good ideas, everything is possible if we believe.

Link : http://http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2011-08/high-school-inventors-2011?page=2

Meet Javier Fernandez - Han that invented All in one…

Food crisis, is one of the major problem for the world to face. For example, in Indonesia a large number of people has no access to eat. The reason why is that Indonesia is the third most populated country in the world. By populated means that are huge numbers of people that has no job, and by no job means no food. People can't get any jobs so they move around the village or cities and because this situation happens to a lots of people, it will end up getting crowded by jobless people in…

Innovator means that someone can make something useful to the community from limited and

reusable material.

After I read that sentence I think I’m going to try to act by following this word, “Creating

“transparent” technologies”. Transparent technologies means that, we make some technology

that not only useful and cheap for the community but also easily understand by the community.

For example I could make something like a cooker from their limited resources. This…

I am from the Sacramento California Region, which is one of the most fertile regions of the world and produces 1/5 of the worlds produce. Thus food shortages here would not be a cause of inability to grow, but inability for the everyday citizen to get the food grown here as so many other cities, states, and countries rely on the produce grown here. But in reaction to the prospect of food shortages, the state in conjunction with CSUS has begun opening community gardens that focus on producing…

The food problem in America is mainly based on the health of the food that we eat. Not only do we pretty much run on fast food the healthy food is expensive and many familys simply can't afford it. I believe that the best solution would be to make the healthy food cheaper and encourage more restaurants to serve healthy meals.

The food problem in America is mainly based on the health of the food that we eat. Not only do we pretty much run on fast food the healthy food is expensive and many familys simply can't afford it. I believe that the best solution would be to make the healthy food cheaper and encourage more restaurants to serve healthy meals.

The biggest issue for my community is the economy, it is hard for people to provide adequately for their families due to job loss and high cost rates of food. It isn't to severe yet but if it continues in the rate that it is going it maybe become a huge problem. But thankfully those who can't afford food can go to many non-profits that are supplied by many different food banks like Low country Food Bank: http://lowcountryfoodbank.org/hope…

WHICH great challenges and social problems should the EVOKE Network tackle next?

I think it's important to start changing the education in many countries. The future of a country builds upon its children. It's important to teach them moral standards and rules and not let them become corrupt politicians or political leaders. Educational concepts can be created and adapted to a certain country. It can include steps on how to make the country better and how to achieve the…

Looking at the future I think we will see a change in the world. The strong countries as we know them right now won't be the strong countires in maybe 20 years. The world is changing.

The social problems that might appear are in my opinion basically energy and water problems. More nations will increase their living standard. That means that more and more need more energy and water for that life.

I think Africa will play a big role in the future as they have to make the biggest…

What I found really surprising is the statement of Peter Sandman, Risk Communication Consultant. He says that if people become aware of a risk, denial is a way bigger problem than panic. To be honest, I always thought that overreactions to a difficult situation and the panic of the people can cause the biggest problems. What Peter Sandman says is that the overreactions and fear in a crisis are very important to protect people. Sandman argues that people who have gone through such a reaction…