Project 2 (First Part)
- Research additional cases of people who are making a difference in their communities by getting involved in business and making money.
- Present the cases explaining the keys that make them successful.
Video#1: Oprah's South African Leadership Academy for
Girls
- How is Oprah using her money?
She
has donated millions of dollars to
various organization, with most of her money going to three Foundations:
The Angel Network. The Oprah Winfrey Foundation and The Oprah Winfrey
Leadership Academy for Girls in South Africa and Rebuilding the Gulf Coast.
In 2007, the Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy
opened its doors to academically gifted, underprivileged girls in South Africa.
On Saturday, the first class graduated, with a 100 percent pass rate.
- Why is Oprah so happy with her new role?
She is happiness and really
unexpected being able to step into the mother role, friend, confidant and
companion, advisor for girls. Oprah
said: “I didn´t know that I would love it”.
- Why is education important for her? And how are students picked for her school?
The
education is important for her because, she said that these girls have broken
the cycle of poverty in their families, being the first to ho on the college
and to do whatever they choose to do-key Word, what they choose to do with
their lives, they not longer have to accept the standard that their mother and
their father had to bear, because there were not oportunities.
“The
education is beginning of the ending of poverty”.
The
students are girls with a experience trauma and the hardships ingrained in
poverty.
- What does closing the gap mean?
I think that Oprah never
imagined the reaction when the girls saw the plumbing because it means they can
take a shower and she doesn´t have to go to find containers of water they can
flush the toilet.
Closing the gap mean because
she help to girls that never had
economic resources for to have a good education .
Video
#2: Women Entrepreneurs
- Why are business skills important for women?
The business skill are
important for women because, they are the population you have left. Rwanda in
the immediate aftermath of the genocide was 77 percent female. In many places
there are women who keep entire families, there are also single mothers and all
of them must have business skills.
2. Share some of the stories of women in the
video
In
the State Department in Washington and I met an incredibly passionate
entrepreneur from Ghana. She sells chocolates. And she had come to Washington,
not seeking a handout and not seeking a microloan. She had come seeking serious
investment dollars so that she could build the factory and buy the equipment
she needs to export her chocolates to Africa, Europe, the Middle East and far
beyond -- capital that would help her to employ more than the 20 people that
she already has working for her, and capital that would fuel her own country's
economic climb.
Gayle
went to Afghanistan in 2005 to work on a Financial Times piece, and there she
met Kamila, a young women who told me she had just turned down a job with the
international community that would have paid her nearly $2,000 a month -- an
astronomical sum in that context. And she had turned it down, she said, because
she was going to start her next business, an entrepreneurship consultancy that
would teach business skills to men and women all around Afghanistan. Business,
she said, was critical to her country's future. Because long after this round
of internationals left, business would help keep her country peaceful and
secure. And she said business was even more important for women because earning
an income earned respect and money was power for women.
3. Why money is power for women?
Money is power for a women
because, they never had respect and
never they had earned an income, they
receive more attention when they are introduced to business and earn money.
Second part: Based on the
information from the videos, in-class discussions and activities,
presentations, research, answer the following questions:
- Does money always mean power? Why?
I
think that money if you can give power but depending on as it is used because
it can sometimes destroy the person, in the world there are people with so much
money they don't know to do and end making up his own life a hell. currently
the money buys everything, people, consciousness, things and for this reason
people who have much money believe they have the power.
2. How does society normally measure
success?
Normally the society
measures success by the amount of material things that has one person and should not be so now that success is
accompanied by the effort, dedication and commitment to the goals that they
have. Many people obtained the material things in a bad way and it is not
correct to say that the person is successful.
- Margaret Bonnano said: "Being rich is having money; being wealthy is having time." What do you think of this quote?
I think that being rich is
not having money, being rich is having time to achieve the goals that we have
in life, have peace of mind and confidence in us themselves, nothing serves
have money if you need humility and spiritual peace.
- How was the research process, in-class presentations, mini-projects and Second project in weeks 6-8? What did you learn?
I during these weeks I
learned that we can all make a difference and help, that there are programs to
volunteer without having to give money only with our time we can help many
people, that the best way to help is to make a difference and that if we want
to make a difference not do always the same.
- What can you apply to your life from the main activities develop in the last weeks?
I can apply to my life many activities develop in the
last weeks, for example:
Do´s and dont´s of a job interview, different volunteer
programs to help other people, It was important the videos that we saw, people that help the
community, I believe that everyone should put in practice with the tools we
have to help others.
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