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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
DrChrisStout.com
Great Things…!
