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Social Innovation Secret - Understand
The secret most helpful for me to remember is the importance of understanding the full context of who you are trying to help - culture, resources, environment, mentality...
I learned this first hand as I was working with a orphanage in Haiti who was trying to develop sustainable food sources. After looking into a varied approach and preparing to implement agricultural programs and a tilapia farm, we quickly discovered that as people removed form their daily life we failed to account for something critical to the program's succeess or failure.
As people who have never had to worry when our next meal would be, we assumed the Haitians would be willing to wait until the tilapia were large enough to eat. But we quickly discovered that no matter how much you tell them, people with food insecurity many times will eat as soon as they see food... even if that means the food is premature (i.e. tilapia minnows, small carrots...).
You need to understand those you are trying to serve before you can help them.
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Comment by Crystal Bellar on March 4, 2010 at 4:06pm
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Hello fellow Chicagoan !
Starvation and malnutrition works in strange ways. It is cool that you went to Haiti- this is a really insightful share. What alternatives did you decide to do? Was this overcome?
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Comment by Jonathan Jackson on March 4, 2010 at 7:29pm
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I didn't actually go to Haiti. I was partnering with a group who run an orphanage/school outside of PAP. I was in the process of enrolling in a program to become certified in teaching people how to implement tilapia farms in the developing word. It did not work out as the person funding my training had to stop due to the economy. I was a resource and planner for the organization and the direction it was going.
We scaled back our plan for tilapia for now. But they did move forward with installing solor panels and were hoping for a solar oven and goat farm. Well - the earthquake pretty much destroyed all that.
I hope to be in the Dominican Republic this fall. Part of my desire is to help orphanages and schools become more self-sustaining. I hope to look into sustainable farming while I am there.
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