Building a Youth Leadership Association in Rabinal, Guatemala
Six years ago, as a junior at UC San Diego, Michael Bakal received a student grant to coordinate a health fair in the indigenous community of Rabinal, Guatemala. Since then, Michael has returned to Rabinal 10 times and formed a non-profit organization. Named Voces y Manos, his nonprofit originally sought to improve health through … Continue reading “Building a Youth Leadership Association in Rabinal, Guatemala”
- Team Members: Michael Bakal, Kira Levy, Kimberly Vinall
- Global Poverty Alleviation
- UC Berkeley
- 2013
From Farm to People: Connecting People to Their Food Source
The establishment of innovative and sustainable farms is crucial to changing our current food system into a sustainable, environmentally friendly, and healthy system. From Farm to People will illuminate innovative farmers, producers of food, and food activists across the nation, shedding light on the people making efforts to create a new paradigm for how … Continue reading “From Farm to People: Connecting People to Their Food Source”
- Team Members: Lauren Tarver
- Art & Social Change, Creative Expression for Social Justice
- UC Berkeley
- 2013
Nossa Communidade, Nossa Historia: Our Community, Our Story
“Nossa Communidade, Nossa Historìa” (“Our Community, Our Story”) will bring a program of artistic expression to the youth of Brazil’s Rocinha favela. The program will take a group of twenty children, aged ten to fifteen, and spend four months providing them the opportunity to express their stories through different artistic modes with the goal … Continue reading “Nossa Communidade, Nossa Historia: Our Community, Our Story”
- Team Members: Lorna Porter
- Art & Social Change, Creative Expression for Social Justice
- UC Berkeley
- 2013
The Secret Life of Urban Animals
Often overlooked in urbanization are relationships between people and animals. This project will reveal how changing human-animal relationships are related to the development of global cities through artistic maps. By understanding the secret lives of urban animals in developing cities, the project will offer insights into how to develop Zoopolis, or cities where both people … Continue reading “The Secret Life of Urban Animals”
- Team Members: Rebecca Hui
- Art & Social Change
- UC Berkeley
- 2013
Facilitating Independence for Photo Capturing, Browsing, and Sharing for Blind People
Both sighted and blind people value having a photographic memento of a moment, a place, or an event. However, due to the visually oriented nature of photography and the lack of non-visual cues to indicate the content of the photo, the photographs taken by blind people are often lacking, sometimes missing the photo subject … Continue reading “Facilitating Independence for Photo Capturing, Browsing, and Sharing for Blind People”
- Team Members: Dustin Adams, Susumu Harada, Caitlin Hernandez, Sri Kurniawan, Daisuke Sato
- Information Technology for Society
- UC Santa Cruz
- 2013
ParkExperienceMap
To survive, California’s National Parks must become relevant to people of diverse cultural backgrounds. But even as California’s population continues to diversify, people of culturally diverse backgrounds have been less likely to use National Parks and other public lands than others. If the percentage of African Americans and Hispanics who visit, volunteer, donate and … Continue reading “ParkExperienceMap”
- Team Members: Luis Aguilar, Colin MacArthur, Eric Zan
- Information Technology for Society
- UC Berkeley
- 2013
Extending a Helping Hand as Volunteer Tax Preparers
In 2010, VITA@Berkeley, under the “Social Resources for a Healthy Community” project, successfully established its year-long program to assist students, community members, and community tax partners in collaborating around an effort to alleviate poverty through tax preparation. As a result, they helped secure $600,000 in tax refunds and credits to East Bay residents. “Extending … Continue reading “Extending a Helping Hand as Volunteer Tax Preparers”
- Team Members: Victoria Chu, Jorden Lam
- Scaling Up
- UC Berkeley
- 2013
GoodWheels
GoodWheels will be a UC Berkeley student-run market where students can buy used bikes. Beginning in summer, they will offer a location for students to buy bikes at a lower cost and in a safer manner than they would be able to buy used bikes from strangers online. Student’s purchases from GoodWheels will have … Continue reading “GoodWheels”
- Team Members: Nicholas de Raad, Christopher Ategeka, Alex Hayashi
- Scaling Up
- UC Berkeley
- 2013
Truth as Freedom: Promoting Human Rights and Accountability through Access to Information in Sierra Leone
In its current reconstruction phase, Sierra Leone has made valiant efforts to reckon with its past and develop rule-of-law, historical memory, and accountability for war crimes. However, Sierra Leone has a history of corruption and remains one of the poorest nations on earth. Today, citizens need food, healthcare, and education. But they also need … Continue reading “Truth as Freedom: Promoting Human Rights and Accountability through Access to Information in Sierra Leone”
- Team Member: Holly Dranginis
- Promoting Human Rights
- UC Berkeley
- 2013