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Don't fight culture

I'm a tutor, and I have a lot of fun doing it, so I filter a lot of information I get about "what works with people" and "how to change situations" through my experiences there.

And I agree, it saves a lot of energy and pays off to greater effect when you don't fight culture.

For me, that means, when I go into a home, finding out what the culture is in the home. The kid I'm tutoring has a dynamic with adults, with other people. Part of my job is to suss out that dynamic and… Continue

Added by Abby Krieger on May 11, 2010 at 10:03pm — No Comments

Don't fight culture!

2. Don't fight culture.

People like to feel that they are approached at personal level.

One example to marketing without fighting culture:

in western society, we use millions of plastic bags each day. I would personally like to see them replaced with paper bags or other kind of sustainable material. I feel that before (maybe 50 years ago) people use paper as packaging, but now only plastic is used. Why is that? Why have we… Continue

Added by Rauni Lillemets on May 5, 2010 at 1:27pm — No Comments

Combat Violence in 50 Rwanda Households

http://www.globalgiving.org/projects/poverty-domestic-violence/

We chose an article in class about Violence in 50 Rwanda Households. I feel that this is important because there shouldn't be combats in households. Especially with women in them. Where there are women there are children. Its sad to know that these people within the households have to fight for there lives because of the combats.

Added by Ly-Nice on April 14, 2010 at 2:07pm — No Comments

Learn 1

Problems are not always obvious from afar (You really have to live for a while in a society where no one has currency larger than a $1 bill to understand the importance of money via mobile phones.)

People often say: "i understand what you're going through" or etc. However people cant truely feel or understand something unless they actually do it.

Added by Cameron Daye Burrows on April 12, 2010 at 12:36am — No Comments

Don't Fight Culture

For the first Learn Objective I want to talk about Ethan Zuckerman's second point on Innovation from Constraint:

"Don’t fight culture (If people cook by stirring their stews, they’re not going to use a solar oven, no matter what you do to market it. Make them a better stove instead.)"

I'll admit first by saying I'm not a big fan of the design boom… Continue

Added by Nathan Nearing on March 26, 2010 at 9:30am — No Comments

learn 2 food preservation and transportation

I am SHEI DEREK TARWEP in Cameroon and have lived in a country that the talk of food shortage is a popular debate.When I was growing up it was not a problem of wether we had food to eat but the problem has always been that of what type of food to eat.the problem of having certain food stuffs only in some seasons and being unable to have them in some other seasons have always plagued us. also the problem of having insufficient food to eat at the end of the year or before planting… Continue

Added by shei derek tarwep on March 11, 2010 at 1:44pm — 9 Comments