A crash course in changing the world.
In rural Ethiopia, women and children walk up to six hours to collect water. Most people collect water from shallow, unprotected ponds which they share with animals. Other people collect water from shallow wells. Both of these sources are subject to contamination as rain water washes waste from surrounding areas into the source. The jugs women use to carry water back to the village weigh up to 40 pounds! Often, young children are left at…
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Wel, I imagine myself as a world changemaker person, I will have changed the world in a very positive way and I'll be willing to help Alchemy with to problem of Tokyo. I will wake up everyday with the idea that I have to change the world one more time!!! I will be working with international organization, such as the United Nations, the World Bank, etc. in order to help create change in the world!!!
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Hi, at the time I was thinking to acceted this objective I started to think where I can find a place to start and comlete this objective. Fortunately I have the opportunity to travel to a small city in my country. There I have some friends thta don't live in the best conditions, specially because they don't have a great access to food. Almost everyday they didn't know what to eat. So I helped them start their own farm and garden where they could grow cows and cultivate some vegetables,…
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Hi, I would like to share these with all of you!!!
I decided to follow Guy Kawasaki, he is a great social entrepeneur!!! He has a blog rated as the sixth of the Top 50 Social entrepeneurs Bolgs and for what I have seen in his blog I'm sure that he is a model of innovator. I have contacted him through twitter (I'm following him) and through facebook too. I haven't received a response yet, but I soon as I receive one I will post it!!!
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In my opinion, to be a social innovator means to think creatively because if you think creatively you're going to look for the most important problems in the place where you want to act and the best solution for that problem, and you are going to be able to solve that problem through new, great and practical projects. Creativity is one of the most important characteristics of social innovators. If there is no creativity, it's going to be very difficult for those "social innovators" to find a…
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