The Notes of the Podcast (Paul Polak, Tackling Global Poverty His Own Way)

Paul Polak is a founder of the nonprofit International Development Enterprises. And he has spent 25 years working to eradicate poverty in Bangladesh, India, Ethiopia, Zimbabwe and other countries in the developing world.

Instead, Polak teaches families and farmers — many of whom live on a dollar a day and own perhaps an acre of land — how to increase crop yields with simple technologies, such as cheap, foot-operated water pumps and inexpensive drip hoses for irrigation. He helped the farmers very well, and it's very useful. After Mr. Polak's teaching, the farmers actually knows how to schedule their own things about money, and so that they can give good academic.

Current Event- Global Warming is going to be a BIG problem

The world is a facing a big big problem, which is global warming. I know everyone knows what is global warming. But I am still going to explain it, just encase. A global warming is an increase of the earth's temperature by a few degrees resulting in an increase in the volume of water which contributes to sea-level rise. There are many things that shows the global warming is going to be very dangerous. Like there are mosquitoes in the summer, and it's not really cold in the winter, also it's extremely hot in the summer. We need to help to safe the earth now. Because if we don't, then we will die soon. Global warming will increase in the volume of water which contributes to sea-level rise. So like Taiwan and some other small islands will be gone, because we are too small. So then the ice mountain melt, and then the sea-level will rise and also submerge us. So there are many groups that are trying to help to safe the earth. And what they do is that they are teaching people from every single place in the world that how should we do to safe the earth. Like take more buses, to safe the dirty airs and also oils.

current Event- A Bomb Happened On a Bus

April 23, there is a bomb happened in a bus, I think this bomb is very big, , it kills 23 people, and 52 people are injured. And the bombing came two days after more than 100 Sri Lankan soldiers were killed and another 400 wounded during an advance on a Tamil stronghold in the northern Wanni region.

Student Outcome

This week we are still working on our Africa Project, for us which is the Liberia Project. And this time we have more and more researches from last time, because we went to many website. And this time Mr. Carpenter gave us some website that can let us to see some videos and also podcasts about our own country, and try to make it better and better. And the most important thing is that we need to know that how are we going to spend the money after we get it, so that the government will give us the money.

What we've Learn about Liberia so far with Mathilde

I went to this site :
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/6564773.stm

And it is talking about the way the IMF could improve the Liberian economy.
I really like their ideas:

The most important thing that I picked up was that since there is food shortage and that the prices are going up so much they could produce more agriculture. To improve that there could be money going into the improvement of tools (truck farming) and irrigation systems, fertile soil. Another thing that could be looked at is whether or not the land is divided equally between the farmers and the rich people. If the rich people own all the land and the poor people just are heired as slaves to work on the farms and are not well payed, then we could make the government tell the rich people to give land to the poor people. For that we might need to hire a consultant from the IMF, to work in the government to make sure that there is no problem with the way the government use the money. For example so that they don’t just give the money out to the rich people’s hands, and that when the members of the IMF ask what they have done with the money, anybody can just pull out the bill of what they used it for.
Another thing that might be good for Liberia’s economy is that Liberia produces iron and different types of metals. So if once again we could have a consultant, the mines will be safe (helmets, protections...) and well payed, people would come to work and so then we could sell that to other countries and make money. For that we will also need good transportation (roads, ports...) This is also another place the money will go.


By Mathilde + Jean
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Current Event- Peace Plan for Liberia Seeks to Demilitarize the Capital

West African leaders want to avoid full-scale civil war in Liberia. So they approved a broad peace plan. The capital of Liberia Monrovia restore the country's fractured governing council. Liberia's four principal approved the plan, they called for an immediate cease-fire. and remove all the weapons that are in the capital. They also need to return a $20 million worth of vehicles and equipment. This is really good for Liberia, because the leaders and the four principles stopped Liberia from a big scary war.

Notes of the podcast(world disaster)

The world is facing problems, like global warming and the world is going to be out of food. So in this podcast Dr. Sachs is talking about the bad things that the world is facing. The oil prices up, food prices up, many people ignoring the crisis, and pollution a lot in many countries, just like Taiwan, Taiwan is a very small country, but there are like a lot of people live there. After I listen to the podcast, I felt ashamed, because humans are those problems, we make the world look like this. I think if there are no humans in the world, then the world will be very clean and also "healthy."