Creative Humanitarian Approaches To Poverty Alleviation And Sustainability: Examples From The Field

Creative Humanitarian Approaches To Poverty Alleviation And Sustainability:

Examples From The Field

Dr Chris StoutCenter for Global

Initiatives & College of Medicine University of Illinois,

Chicago

Who’s here today?

Academics?Psychologist

s?Social Workers?Policy experts?People who like to raise their hands…?

My professional/academic journey here was a little curvy…

Books, Books, Books….

Today, I focus on global health.

On my first international medical mission, I saw what the disease of poverty look like…

Halong Bay, Vietnam

“Diseases of Poverty” refers to ills that are the result of neglect in poverty stricken communities.

As for prevalence…

~30,000 children die each day due to preventable diseases caused by

poverty.

500,000 children become blind each year from malnutrition.

1.8 million people die annually from preventable diarrheal diseases.

While we work to treat the ill, proven prevention strategies include:

Economic development Ending military conflictDeveloping education models – especially for

femalesTechnology leapfrogging and access to information (e.g., markets for goods)

Fostering sustainable development

My not-so-professional (accidental) journey here…

Tanzania…

There is no shortage of demand

It’s nice to see that supply is also increasing…

William Rosenblatt, MD

REcovered

Medical

Equipment

Developing Y (world)

for the

Sabriye Tenberken & Paul Kronenberg

Erik Weihenmaye

r

International Institute for Social Entrepreneurs

Soweto, South Africa

Saths Cooper, PhD

Geek CorpsEthan

Zuckerman

Sustainable Sciences Institute

.

Drs. Raj and Mabelle Arole

Shobha Arole, MD

Infant Mortality Rate Reduction 86.36%

Maternal HealthAntenatal CareSafe Delivery

Family Planning

0.5%

<0.5%<1.0%

100%100%65%

Children under 5 Immun.(DPT, polio)Malnutr. (wt for age)

0.5%40%

87%<1%

TB (prev./1000) 18 1.2

Changes in Health Indicators (1971-

2006)TB patients treated 9,621

Tube-wells for safe drinking water

198

Plant nurseries – villages 203

Check dams 223

Houses built for poor people 283

Women involved in credit program 6,064

Training in Community-Based Health (since 1983)

Persons from India Persons from other

countries

17,6611,911

Overview of Activities (1970 – 2006)

Institute for OneWorld HealthVictoria Hale,

PhD

Marie Charles, MD

Witness.

A word is worth 1/1000th of a picture…

Witness

Scojo Foundation.

Power of the small projec

t

Mother Theresa once said:

“If you cannot feed one-hundred, then feed just one.”

Bolivian Prisons (and Clark)

Sometimes you can at least solve part of the problem….

I was always frustrated with the disconnect of getting

helpful information and tools to those

that needed it.

So I have been doing some experimenting….

It’s about tools…

Accelerants…

It’s about:

Results…It’s about:

A kindergarten is born

Collaborations

It’s about:

POX of the untils…

THANKS

KEEP IN TOUCH

GO DO

For Having Me

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