StudyPuppy is a learning community for everyone, young and old, interested in learning more about anything.  We are striving to have the largest database of educational articles by 2012.  For quality articles, this would cost thousands of dollars.  I intend on creating many of them myself, but one person can only do so much.  Once launched, StudyPuppy will run contests for its members.  These contests will have prizes such as laptops, software (like Adobe Flash), and even cash.  StudyPuppy could definitely use your help to get going in order to be as helpful and constructive as possible.  Thank you for spending your time to review my proposal.
chacken80.0

CHEFs (Cheap Healthy Eco-Friendly Foods) is an organization that works to create lasting social change by improving the lives and long-term health and well-being of the residents of the United States through access to nutrition education, instruction in meal preparation, and resources for a more readily available supply of healthy food. Using education and community outreach, CHEFs will combat the growing obesity epidemic and increased frequency of diet-related diseases which disproportionately impact low-income families and communities. CHEFs is assembling a diverse group of volunteers drawn from universities and community-based organizations, who will reach out to under-served communities that do not have direct access to affordable and nutritious food, through workshops and events aimed at educating community members about wellness and nutrition. 

CHEFs would like to create a Volunteer Placement Software Program to match all documented volunteers with approved volunteer opportunities. CHEFs will screen all volunteer opportunities before accepting them into the software. CHEFs will sell the software on a sliding scale to established nonprofit organizations that specialize in wellness services. Interested volunteers will be able to sign up to donate their time and services via the CHEFs website (www.chefsforschools.org), and will then be immediately matched with a volunteer opportunity based on their interests, location, and time preferences. This will increase the effectiveness of CHEFs and its partners' programs and increase the overall impact on the community. 

 

 

chefsforschools6160.0

Change-on-wheels  is a mobile drive which involves reaching out to  various  underprivileged  schools  in urban/ /rural localities in India . This drive focuses on conducting unique workshops for the benefit of the children studying in these underprivileged schools . The workshop is meticulously designed by a panel of education experts and includes the critical missing link required in today’s school curriculum .  The workshop is divided into five stages. The first aspect of the workshop involves teaching basic Life skills and social skills to normal kids as well as to special education students ( students with disabilities). The second aspect of the workshop involves teaching crafts , pottery making and greeting card making . The third aspect of this workshop includes teaching moral and ethical values through the art of storytelling .The fourth aspect of the workshop involves enthralling the school children by a magic show . The fifth and last aspect of the workshop involves screening select animated movies which we believe will provide a much needed break from the boring school curriculum of these underprivileged schools .

brains.galore90.0

My idea for changing society and make it better place to live would be the introduction of filters for cars. I imagining it that every person who owns a car or every family need to upgrade their car with that kind of filter on exhausting system. It would reduce the concentration of harmful gases in atmosphere that are product of automobile exhaustions and in same time it would increased our consequence about ecology and green way of living. I think today it is the biggest issue on our planet and every country need to make some kind of innovations to make the whole situations better, so in some way this would be my contribution to the greener world and environment.

MasoAlagic40.0

MAAGI strives to promote girl-child's Rights among the Laikipia and Kajiado Maasai's in Kenya through empowerment with enlightenment. MAAGI participate in creation of opinion based on democratic principles.

MAAGI partners with local organizations to strategically promotes gender equality especially focusing on equal respect so that women can actively participate in self determination in order to improve their lives. Since MAAGI is not going to implement projects on the ground, we positively identify viable projects which we will sponsor according to our financial ability and on equal and fair partnership.
diasporakenyan100.0

One of the main causes of poverty, crime etc is the lack of education and the access to information. For example If people in poorer countries knew of the other ways in which they can provide sustenance for themselves and their families they would not turn to crime.

The solution is to establish "InfoPowerment Centers" in these poorer places around the globe. The idea is to have two courses:

1. Literacy course
2. Internet search skills

For those that cannot read they attend the first course. This course focuses on teaching the people to read. The main subjects being discussed whilst learning to read would be about the problems that certain community faces. For example if food shortages is the problem people are thought to read and what they would be reading about is farming.

When they 'graduate' ie: they can read they can take up the second course which teaches them to search the internet; which is the portal to all the worlds information.

Giving the power to underprivileged people to access information on any subject they desire is as good as educating that person. Using the same example again, when someone that wants to learn more about farming knows how to search for material online, they can obtain information they need to start a small community farm in their village.

And it gets better, the courses should be provided free of charge so anyone can participate and learn. However for this idea to become a reality it needs income and this income cannot just be coming from donations.

In order to sustain itself the investor charges for internet access, this has two benefits:

• The idea generates a means of sustaining itself into the future.
• The people who participate get a sense that the time they have online is valuable and therefore will spend their time productively learning the essentials they need to know to solve their community's problems.

aqubia70.0

Common practice in Bosnia and Herzegovina: Purchasing your exams and place at universities

Corruption is the main problem at Universities in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Students are giving money to professors so they can pass entrance exam and by doing that they are automatically taking the place of hard working student who cannot afford to buy entrance exam or any other exam (professor) that can only be bought.

Students believe that exams, services or loyalty of professors sometimes have to be bought. Corruption is deeply rooted in universities all over Bosnia and Herzegovina, and  it exist because parents and students are trying to find the best, the easiest or the only way to finish collage. The corruption to some extent involves everyone, from students and parents, to teachers and leading faculty staff who accept corruption as inevitable and as a result of politics and favoritism. They accepted that corruption is part of life and they do not complain or seek a way to change anything.

The increasing number of students makes corruption and corrupted professor’s rich people because there is limited number of students that can be accepted in university every year. Meaning, if you really love and want to study particular subject you have to be willing to pay large amounts of money to be accepted.


This is the problem that has to be solving soon because young people are going abroad to study. Society where family ties help you signing into university or finding you a job is society who represents nation with no future. It represents nation that will soon loose young, smart, hard working people willing to learn and to accomplish something. It will lose possibility to improve and to be something that it used to be long time ago PROUD country in which you brain and knowledge could take you anywhere.

Elvira Mehmedika elvira60.0

Education makes a difference to an individual  / family / community / nation/ world

The mode for acquiring knowledge does not have any limitation , therefore a new mode is envisaged for enriching the knowledge of a general person and  mainly for academic students ( 2 to 15 yrs of age ).

The educative contents are like alphabets , word building pedagogy , rhyming words , theorems  , multiplication tables ,  mathematical formulae  , meanings  of  words and sentence built on that word , various laws of science, general knowledge sentences, point wise  academic syllabus sentences of elementary / primary /secondary schooling,  health tips for daily life , geographical knowledge , etc etc

The type of display would be mainly of scrolling, static , animated  type , similar to the way short messages  ( news )  are being scrolled as seen at the bottom of  a news channel  ( example  - BBC  )

The  concept of  ‘ something is better than nothing ‘ is valid  phrase in this concept . In other words when a ambience of a particular place is unaltered  , atleast  some quantity of knowledge is better than , no knowledge at all  , to all the persons present in that ambience place and also the activities of the individuals present is not hindered.

This is justified when we analyse the unaltered ambience after the device is kept switched on at each  residence ( living rooms ) , Bus, and Bus stations , train compartments and railway stations,  reception halls of  hotels  / office /  hospitals / schools / canteens / public places etc , etc

The device is not a teaching medium but a perfect revising medium  and a medium for evoking  Discussion .

It is  a medium to satisfy the pedagogy involved to assist for   revising a educative stuff which is already understood

Majority of illustrations are sentencewise and pictorial views, irrespective of type, volume and complexity of topic. For example : To build a word from the letter ‘C’  the word  ‘chair’ can be illustrated along with a photograph and video of chair.

Concept Efficiency depends upon the individual’s IQ level, grasping ability, accidental watching frequency etc

SCHEDULE   PATTERN     ( PROGRAMMED )  : 

There are different options for scheduling the contents, one among those are as follows:

The displays are in segments of 2 hours ( programme of 2 hours ) covering all sections/ categories of people.

One day consists of 12 such segments  ( 12 programmes a day ).

Each programme has a specific time for a specific subject , for example , if the first two minutes of a programme is for alphabets scrolling , the corresponding first two  minute of the next two hour programme will also be of alphabets scrolling , but with a different pedagogy

The duration of the   display for each topic varies according to the type of  topic .

The points will  be automatically changed  after  completing the duration  allotted for it .Please refer the attached mail for the typical sentences which are planned to scroll / display in the devices

  

ADVANTAGES OF THE  CONCEPT

Advantage-1

The concept does not call for any compulsive reading , extra initiation  by an individual for having a glance at the ongoing Display .

In this concept , an individual acquires something useful while being engaged in any other activity irrespective of its nature and type .

A ( elementary / primary /secondary schooling ) student who glances all the important points ( already understood ) regularly does not need to have a tension filled preparation for his examinations at the end of the academic year .

Advantage-2

Young children  love to do other activities like playing ,enjoying with friends or watch TV but refrain from reading due to mental strain.

This strain is due to the lack of knowledge , confidence and comprehension of the stuff they are studying. 

This Mental strain  makes them to lack  initiative for reading  but   love to initiate to play  or engage into activities which mentally strainless .

If a test is conducted for tables ( multiples of 2 ) in a class, a child who knows thoroughly will be alacritic to  face the test  whereas child not knowing it ,would be reluctant to face .

Advantage-3

No physical  initiation ( take a book from shelf and read ) required by working individuals to make themselves free in the evenings to enrich their knowledge

If  a working individual is insisted to take a dictionary  and read for understanding meanings of the words, obviously he would be reluctant to initiate.

Suppose the working individual is watching TV in the evening ,at the same time a meaning for a word is being displayed  from the device hanged on  the wall above the television , the  persons tendencies to that ambience can be analysed for positive results.

Advantage –4

The concept  enables the students to secure the least marks  required  to get through  in their academic examinations ,without any  additional strain .

The  type of sentences broadcasted will be short and simple and will be point wise, even though the chapter or answer for a particular question is very big .

Pointwise  sentences makes revision easier and frequent revision of the understood  sentences makes to perform better in their examinations .

Advantage –5 

Attractive entertainment from different medias  ( TV , Radio ) do tempt and deviate the contemporary middle class individuals from effectively utilizing the prime time of the day in their house  (evenings ).

This concept  makes them to acquire something useful while being  engaged in any other activity , irrespective of its nature and type.

Among majority of  individuals ( preferably students ) watching television ,the channel preference given between educative channel and entertainment channel , is always the latter .  

Advantage –6

Understanding  the meanings of words  and idioms regularly from universally and locally accepted language      ( English ,Hindi, French,German )     will improve the hold on a language  subtly and  its vocabulary ,gradually and steadily.

Thorough  knowledge  of universally and locally accepted language makes an individual  to communicate easily with any person locally and internationally.

Advantage –7

Even illiterates can be motivated to study.

When two persons  (one literate and other illiterate )  are present together  ,imagine and analyze  the   situation. Obviously a human interface can be expected between the illiterate and the device.

Many orthodox housewives after  their usual family formalities like sending their children to schools ,husband to office , chat  with  neighbouring counterparts.  At this juncture instead of unwanted gossips ,these scrolls from the device would make them to discuss regarding the ongoing sentence and thereby making a virtual group study.

Please imaginethe impact if this device is:

1) an household product of the city adopting this concept.
2) installed in each bus  running within the city and each compartment of the train running within the city adopting this concept. ( analyse the commuters time utility in both the cases.)
3) installed in the waiting prone zone of the public places like  bus stops, hospitals, barber shops, corporate lounge, hotels  etc etc

PHSYCHOLOGICAL  View

When same  sentences are reviewed or understood  frequently ,it lies in their memory   forever.

Pictorial  or visual learning  is effective than compared to book reading . 

We can positively predict the tendency  of students in paying their attention to their relative stuff  from  respective  syllabus or matter  related to individual person’s interest when being scrolled in the  display device.

LIMITATIONS

The result from this project is not instant , but a gradual change  in the context of acquiring elementary / general   knowledge  among  people deprived of it, can be definitely noticed over a period of time.

 

 

 

 

 

PRIYARAMESH60.0

Bosnia and Herzegovina has great potential in terms of tourism. Here Byzantium from the east met with Rome from the west. Here are 500 years ruled by the Ottomans and the oriental culture before Austria-Hungary empire came and brought their customs and culture. This multicultural country that is a confluence of 3 different religions and peoples, which has many natural attractions such as mountains, rivers, lakes, ancient buildings, mosques, churches, old villages where people still live a traditional lifestyle with a rich national cuisine, pleasant climate has plenty of room for improvement in this aspect. Many things are the reason for the slow growth of these sectors of the economy: the current political situation and the constant obstruction of various lobbies to lack of staff working on the promotion of tourism. I think that thereare a lot of ways that could enhance tourism in our country, and even to become the most profitable sector of the economy. Firstly, I think that should work on marketing. Picture of Bosnia in the world is such that people think that this country still at war and therefore we would need to work on marketing is not a problem today at the age of digital technology and internet, and would thus change the bad image of our country. It also should work on educating the local population, make them familiar with the benefits of tourism in their local communities and encourage them to involve themselves in projects. It also should work on the security situation in the cities, reduce the rate of street crime, so that the tourists feel safer. As I said, this could become the most profitable sector of our economy, and therefore I think it should be given enormous attention. Edin Orman60.0

"Just Imagine a University which accept no enterence exam but just u need to be diifrent"

I believe - Even un-practical approach of education system is also practical.

A boy in his school days, who is extremely dull in studies especially mathematics. He used to sit in a corner and talk to a only friend, about stupid things. His note copies was full of doodles and immproper drawings.(some were sadistic)His math's teacher  thought , he has got mental problem.
Obiously he fluncked. Didnt get a good college. 
        But now he entered into a institute (Art). He did same thing. But this time he was popular and topper.He was far better than others. He was named philosopher and wacky because of his maddness.(as a compliment)
.......................His stupidity becomes strength...................................
And he says - All I m here is because of my mathematics class. Every equation drived him crazy and look world in a different manner. Though he didnt had feel for equations but he had something in him which was different.

Their are lot of stupid people like him, who can change the whole perception of looking.

I want to form a University for these people and grow internationally.

And we dont need any resource for this to happen. Resourse is always there around us.
And for the above boy - unpractical approach of mathematics was the resource.

I want them to achive inner confidence and belief on themself.- This is the actuall moto if EDUCATION.
vr2310e100.0

Objectives

To enhance education in poor illiterate countries

And improve developed countries students' skills

and their desire to help for other needed people in the world

Education is a fundamental human right, every child is entitled to it, it is critical to our lives, and it helps us to accomplish successful and productive future, it ends poverty and enhances health, a lot of the poor countries children are out of school or simply they don't have educational resources

Each one of these children has dreams that may never be fulfilled, potentials that may never be realized, by ensuring that every child has access to be educated, we guarantee to protect these children lives and make them powerful survivors by their knowledge.

 

The right to receive quality education in a safe, healthy and protective environment, even during emergency situations –

these are recognized children’s rights incorporated in a range of international conventions and regional treaties. The Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989) functions as an ideological framework for UNICEF’s principles and goals.

 

In order to help these children, it came to my mind an idea which can improve the implementation of UNICEF principles, we as students in rich countries can participate in this major goal, universities in the developed countries send their students for a period of 3 months to be trained in teaching and education methods according to the principles of the UNICEF associations in a particular country, then they will be ready to participate to teach the children the basic education for another 3 months, of course standards should be determined by the schools in selection the students.

 

 

Farah.K.Eisa60.0

 One of the greatest tragedies in modern times is that the leading cause of death in many developing nations stems from a simple lack of access to basic health care. This is largely due to overworked health care system and a shortage of adequately trained health care professionals within these countries. Over the years there have been many commendable proposals to solve this growing problem such as clinical exchange programs and medical aid. However a majority of these solutions have been only short term fixes and in many cases patients still manage to outnumber clinicians 10,000-to-1.HealthCareWithoutBorders attempts to address this problem by focusing on building up the work force of health care professionals and promoting awareness.It achieves this via a portable device known as a Theseus that links affected regions up with partner universities. Volunteer teaching staff can provide training and awareness. ishjindal520.0

Some people can not live without facebook or online, is just that some people can not read or write? We worry about "that small part of people" that has not had acces to this knowledge, the idea is simple "I was reading, I share the knowledge"

CuceaTeam1110.0

United Through Universities is a social venture that connects universities around the world. At the end of every semester, students are often unable to return textbooks to their bookstores that have gone to a newer addition or are no longer in demand. UTU will collect those textbooks and add them to an international database. This database will be utilized by universities in need across the globe in order to give these books a second-life. This green-education initiative is essentially a recycling program that will allow universities in need to order textbooks through the international database to be used in their own educational institutions. Education is the key to alleviating poverty, and United Through Universities is the key to ending the book famine experienced by many developing countries. These universities would pay a fraction of the price the textbooks would normally cost and would be able to buy them in bulk, meaning they could provide entire classes the necessary materials to a proper education. Furthermore, the money generated through the project will be used for scholarships for students abroad. Where you live should not determine if you live, nor should it be the obstacle in the way to receiving an adequate secondary education. In order to reduce costs, UTU would work with the embassys of each individual country to serve as a source of shipping the books, which will create publicity for the embassy as well as the organization. cbrida3980.0

We are starting a social business that links undeveloped countries in Latin America with developed countries in Europe through sustainable tourism and digital technology.

By travelling to these countries in a sustainable way, travellers help protect environmentally threatened areas and contribute to sustainable economic and educational development of the local communities.
pcareaga90.0

VIDA ACADEMY is a dance academy, oriented to help children in poverty and special needs and people and people with desabilities, to make their dreams, come true and finding themselfs by the power and joy of dance. It is focus to give scholarship or fellowship to children in the elementary shcool level and high school level as well. It is going to be the first dance academy en Mendoza, Argentina to help this children because there are a lot of them that want to dance and do not have that chance to do it, because there is not a place specially for them. I also want to promote the academy by creating proffesional shows and with that help with the shcoolarship process. The show will be mostly ballroom dance combined with other styles like modern, jazz, ballet, hip hop acting , singing and  others to make sure that the sure is unique and totally atracts people. But i need some money to get started and follow this big dream to make it a reality. The idea for now is to make it in Mendoza but someday make it national and why not someday make it worlwide. Dance is VIDA! (life). lugavi90.0

They say knowledge is power, and it is this power that we have yet to explore to power our future. With schooling abundant in many areas, it is usually not a problem to go to school every day. For some, the reality is school may not be a possibility. Certain areas of even our own United States have seen more and more drop outs each year. Moreover, spreading education around the world is vital to enhancing our everyday lives. Who knows who will develop the next life saving drug, or next theorem in physics. By giving so many the gift of learning, we are aiding ourselves and future generations. The Virtual Classroom for a New World will be aimed at those who have not been given access to a classroom before, those who wish to continue their education who may have had to drop out of school, or those who further wish to educate themselves. Taking a look into MIT's open courseware, you see the progress that technology has been able to make in virtual learning. The goal of this project is to further push our technological envelope to develop a virtual classroom that anyone on Earth may easily access and acquire the knowledge they need to conquer the problems we all face today. Together, we can build a better tomorrow, with education shining the light.

timxpassaro550.0

Mission Statement:
Easy Access to use personal computer in third world countries like Pakistan, India, Afghanistan, etc where load shedding and electric shortage problem exist.

Support for Poor families, Offices, especially students:
In these countries million of people linked with poor and middle level families. The resources of these families are very limited especially in village areas and at student’s level. Due to shortage of electricity, high prices of I.T. equipment and education.. Our generation is very behind and weak in I.T. field.

These families, Small offices, Institutes and student have not resources to buy the laptop. Or do the arrangement of UPS or generator to save the work on PC during the at once light “OFF”. The undeclared load shedding and fluctuation are very harmful for this sensitive machine (CPU). My goal to help these effective people to continue their work and save the time and also save their importance work from the fluctuation of light during the working on PC.

Business Development Strategy:
I want to take an innovation in CPU (central processing unit) technology. I want to develop rechargeable dry cell or dry battery to build in power supply. During the load shedding the cell or battery save the work or keep “ON” the system for limited time .So people can save their work and do properly shutdown this device.

The cost of these battery or sell will be nominal under the 20$~30$. Noor Muhammad Qurashi90.0

Though much has been accomplished in recent years to make HIV/AIDS drugs universally available, poverty and malnutrition continue to undermine treatment effectiveness. HIV/AIDS treatment consists of an intensive, multi-drug regimen called anti-retroviral therapy (ART), which is very taxing on the patient’s body. Doctors recommend that individuals infected with HIV/AIDS increase their caloric intake by up to 50% and consume diverse nutrients in order to sustain the energy necessary for the drugs to work. Unfortunately, the majority of people infected with HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa have limited means to acquire the quantity or quality of nutrients needed for effective treatment.

 

Malnutrition not only increases drug side effects but also limits their absorption and effectiveness. It also weakens the immune system, hastening disease progression. HIV/AIDS, in turn, limits the labor productivity of infected individuals, pushing individuals and families further into poverty. Though not a substitute for ART, good nutrition helps people infected with HIV/AIDS to stay healthy longer, adhere to drug therapy, and maintain a better quality of life. Most nutritional support programs for HIV-positive individuals provide short-term food aid. We believe that this long-term disease requires a long-term approach to nutritional support.

 

Gardens for Health International (GHI) aims to enable people living with HIV/AIDS in Rwanda to develop a sustainable means of nutritional support for themselves and for their families. GHI provides a unique program that complements the country-wide availability of ART: legal support to form cooperatives, land advocacy, home gardens, seeds and tools, training in sustainable agriculture and nutrition. 

gardensforhealth1280.0

Embrace is a sustainable social enterprise that aims to save vulnerable babies around the world through a low cost infant incubator.  20 million low birth weight and premature babies are born every year, primarily in developing countries.   Many of these babies die or grow up severely ill because they are not able to regulate their own body temperature.  This problem could be prevented with an incubator.  However, traditional incubators in the U.S. cost up $20,000.

The Embrace Infant Warmer is an innovative device that costs $25.  Embrace uses a phase change material incorporated in a sleeping bag design to regulate a baby's temperature. The product requires no electricity, has no moving parts, is portable and is safe and intuitive to use. Our customers will be private and government hospitals, as well as NGOs who can help bring the product into a community setting. We plan to prove the product and business concepts in India, where the largest need for this product exists, and then roll out in the rest of the developing world.

One of the U.N. millennium development goals is the reduction of infant mortality by two-thirds by 2015.  The Embrace incubator will help families save their babies, and governments work towards this goal.  By 2013, Embrace aims to save the lives of 137,000 babies and prevent illness in another 780,000 babies.  This will lead to cost savings of $146 million to governments, and an increase in GDP of $1 billion due to improved health.

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