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

This was an invited presentation for the Inaugural Thought Leaders Conference in 2016 for the Academy for Overcoming Global Poverty. This presentation will begin by addressing the diseases of poverty from a global health perspective. Examples and statistical data will then give way to a number of stories about various humanitarian organizations that are as innovative in their approach as they are successful in their outcomes. Inspirational stories as well as practical tools will round out this rich and engaging presentation. The embedded links may not work in SlideShare, so please feel free to email me for a copy at DrChrisStout@gmail.com and/or to be added to our email list. You can join our Facebook Group and interact with over 21000 likeminded individuals at: https://www.facebook.com/groups/CenterForGlobalInitiatives/ And if you’d like to support the Center’s work with a tax deductible donation, that would be fantastic(!) and do a great deal: http://centerforglobalinitiatives.org/donateNow.cfm Cheers, and thank you for your work, Chris Http://CenterForGlobalInitiatives.org

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

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  1. Creative Humanitarian Approaches To Poverty Alleviation And Sustainability: Examples From The Field Dr Chris Stout Center for Global Initiatives & College of Medicine University of Illinois, Chicago

  2. Who’s here today? Academics? Psychologists? Social Workers? Policy experts? People who like to raise their hands…?

  3. My professional/academic journey here was a little curvy…

  4. Books, Books, Books….

  5. Today, I focus on global health. On my first international medical mission, I saw what the disease of poverty look like…

  6. Halong Bay, Vietnam

  7. “Diseases of Poverty” refers to ills that are the result of neglect in poverty stricken communities. As for prevalence…

  8. ~30,000 children die each day due to preventable diseases caused by poverty.

  9. 500,000 children become blind each year from malnutrition.

  10. 1.8 million people die annually from preventable diarrheal diseases.

  11. While we work to treat the ill, proven prevention strategies include: Economic development Ending military conflict Developing education models – especially for females Technology leapfrogging and access to information (e.g., markets for goods) Fostering sustainable development

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

  13. Tanzania…

  14. REcovered Medical Equipment Developing Y (world) William Rosenblatt, MD

  15. Sabriye Tenberken & Paul Kronenberg

  16. Erik Weihenmayer

  17. International Institute for Social Entrepreneurs

  18. Soweto, South Africa

  19. Geek Corps Ethan Zuckerman

  20. Sustainable Sciences Institute

  21. Drs. Raj and Mabelle Arole . Shobha Arole, MD

  22. Overview of Activities (1970 – 2006) Changes in Health Indicators (1971-2006) 9,621 TB patients treated Infant Mortality Rate Reduction Maternal Health Tube-wells for safe 86.36% 198 drinking water Plant nurseries – villages 203 Antenatal Care 0.5% 100% Check dams 223 Safe Delivery <0.5% 100% Houses built for poor people Women involved in credit program 283 Family Planning <1.0% 65% Children under 5 6,064 Immun.(DPT, polio) 0.5% 87% Training in Community- Based Health (since 1983)  Persons from India  Persons from other countries Malnutr. (wt for age) 40% <1% 17,661 TB (prev./1000) 18 1.2 1,911

  23. Institute for OneWorld Health Victoria Hale, PhD

  24. Marie Charles, MD

  25. Witness.

  26. A word is worth 1/1000thof a picture…

  27. Witness

  28. Scojo Foundation.

  29. Mother Theresa once said: “If you cannot feed one-hundred, then feed just one.”

  30. Bolivian Prisons (and Clark)

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

  32. I was always frustrated with the disconnect of getting helpful information and tools to those that needed it.

  33. So I have been doing some experimenting….

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