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Brad Corrigan:

Brad Corrigan:. Social Change Leader. Outline. Who is Braddigan ? I-4: Love, Light, and Melody. Background. Music Faith. I-4. Insight Initiative Influence Impact. Love, Light, and Melody. “Introduction ”: http://lovelightandmelody.org/introduction/. La Chureca.

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Brad Corrigan:

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  1. Brad Corrigan: Social Change Leader

  2. Outline • Who is Braddigan? • I-4: Love, Light, and Melody

  3. Background • Music • Faith

  4. I-4 • Insight • Initiative • Influence • Impact

  5. Love, Light, and Melody • “Introduction”: http://lovelightandmelody.org/introduction/

  6. La Chureca • Waste disposal site for Managua, Nicaragua • Largest open-air dump in Central America • 1000 work at La Chureca. • 50% are children under 18 • 115-180 families live in La Chureca.

  7. “Change Starts Here”: http://lovelightandmelody.org/videos/

  8. I-4 • Insight • “It starts with a person…being committed on an individual level” • Initiative • "When you walk with someone you're saying to them, 'I am with you.' We can walk in hell and not have fear." • Influence • “Building a family” • Impact • “Family becomes a movement…and a movement transforms”

  9. Insight • Benefit concert in 2005 • The disparity between Managua and La Chureca

  10. Initiative • Repeated visits • Illeana

  11. Influence • Formation of a team • Brad Corrigan, President, Founder • Scott Dever, Vice President, Director • Geoff Long, Treasurer, Director • Daniel Bain, Site Director, Nicaragua

  12. Impact • Formation of Love, Light, and Melody

  13. Sources and References • http://lovelightandmelody.org/ • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Chureca • Agencia Espanola de CooperacionInternacionalpara el Desarollo. (2009). Proyecto de Desarrollo Integral del Barrio AcahualinciaCuenta Con el Apoyo del Alcalde de Managua y es el ProyectoMas Grande QueRespalda la AECID en Nicaragua. Retrieved from http://www.aecinicaragua.org.ni/articulo/42-proyecto-de-desarrollo-integral-del-barrio-acahu • McMcrary, Jeffrey K, & Mark Castro, & Kenneth R. McKaye. (2005). Mercury in Fish From Two Nicarguan Lakes: A Recommendation for Increased Monitoring of Fish for International Commerce. Environmental Pollution. 141 (3), 513-518 • Athanasiadou, Maria, & Steven N. Cuadra, & Göran Marsh, & Åke Bergman, & Kristina Jakobsson. (2008).PolybrominatedDiphenyl Ethers (PBDEs) and BioaccumulativeHydroxylated PBDE Metabolites in Young Humans from Managua, Nicaragua . Environmental Health Perspectives, 116 (3), 400-408

  14. Cont… • Bergin, Kerry. (2008). Litter on the Path to Peace: The Causes and Consequences of Trash in Nicaragua. SIT Study Abroad. Retrieved from http://digitalcollections.sit.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1008&context=isp_collection • Cuadra, Steve, & Linda Linderholm, & Maria Athanasiadou, & Kristina Jakobsson. (2006). Persistent Organochlorine Pollutants in Children Working at a Waste-Disposal Site and in Young Females with High Fish Consumption in Managua, Nicaragua. Allen Press. 35 (3), 109-116. Retrieved from http://www.jstor.org/stable/4315700 • GrisbyVergara, William. (2008).The “New” Chureca: From Garbage to Human Dignity. RevistaEnvio. 321. Retrieved from http://www.envio.org.ni/articulo/3749 • Parello, F., & A. Aiuppa, & H. Calderon, & F. Calvi, & D. Cellura, & V. Martinez, & M. Militello, & K. Vammen, & D. Vinti. (2008). Geochemical Characterization of Surface Waters and Groundwater Resources in the Managua Area (Nicaragua, Central America). Applied Geochemistry. 23 (4), 914- 931. The Managua Quake: The Inevitable Happens. (1972) Science News. 102 (27). Retrieved from http://www.jstor.org.libproxy.uwinnipeg.ca/stable/pdfplus/3957507.pdf

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