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<font color=red>Place your group members in alphabetical order by last name. Type in your topic, and then a short description of what you want to address. Please follow our example (group 7) if you need any help with wiki editing.</font> | <font color=red>Place your group members in alphabetical order by last name. Type in your topic, and then a short description of what you want to address. Please follow our example (group 7) if you need any help with wiki editing.</font> | ||
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|Bringing technology for the creation of cooking charcoals from plant waste to indigenous communities in Mexico that are heavily affect by indoor air pollution and limited wood fuel supplies. | |Bringing technology for the creation of cooking charcoals from plant waste to indigenous communities in Mexico that are heavily affect by indoor air pollution and limited wood fuel supplies. | ||
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Place your group members in alphabetical order by last name. Type in your topic, and then a short description of what you want to address. Please follow our example (group 7) if you need any help with wiki editing.
Group | Members | Topic | Description |
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1 | Jose Gutierrez Abhishek Kashyap Susannah Payne Deepa Raghunathan Sudhir Shenoy |
Water Conservation Education | Inform populations about the importance of conserving water and finding feasible methods of cleaning water systems in developing countries (& finding alternate water resources) |
2 | Bill Rodney Andrew Horton |
Health and Poverty | Bringing technology for the creation of cooking charcoals from plant waste to indigenous communities in Mexico that are heavily affect by indoor air pollution and limited wood fuel supplies. |
3 | Jennifer Ge Spoorthy Gudavalli Stephanie Y. Orci Isis Trenchard |
Education/Literacy | Creating a self-sustaining education system for developing countries |
4 | Athra Kaviani Paul Rezvani Pouya Feizpour Kishore Khan Matthew K. Hogan |
Poverty | |
5 | Angela Hsiao Daphne Hao Jessica Rodriguez Kaitlin G. |
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6 | Cristina Garcia Clair Hollingsworth Melizza Rodriguez |
AIDS Healthcare | Creating awareness about the need for generic AIDS medicines and developing affordable solutions for treating and preventing AIDS |
7 | Huda Abdul-Razzak Jenny Nguyen Randi Voss |
Empowering Women | Help women achieve financial autonomy through fair trade clothing company |
Topic Interests
Name | Topic 1 | Topic 2 | Topic 3 |
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Abhishek Kashyap | refugees and related problems | slavery and caste system problems | lack of clean water |
Andrew Horton | human rights (Haiti, US's Cuban policy, military takeovers) | health (treatable diseases i.e. TB, AIDS, malaria) | environment (conservation) |
Angela Hsiao | clean up and protect natural resources | education for street/underprivileged kids | food and health for the poor |
Athra Kaviani | public health | child education | literacy |
Bill Rodney | shelter | hunger | education |
Clair Hollingsworth | rural public health | ||
Cristina Garcia | pharmaceutical corporations ethics (medical research on the poor, production generic medicines) | preventable diseases i.e. AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria (research, education) | world hunger and poverty |
Daphne Hao | pollution control | education and job opportunities for former criminals, drug users, etc. | homeless kids, orphans, neglected children |
Deepa Raghunathan | water systems (purifying water supplies, providing drinking water) | improving education (specifically literacy) | mental health concerns of first generation immigrants in the U.S. |
Isis Trenchard | cleaning water/improving sanitation | creating scientific infrastructure in developing countries (preventing "brain drain") | helping education systems in developing countries |
Jennifer Ge | children's rights | education | China care: healthcare, education, care for orphans |
Jessica Rodriguez | homeless children or children with parents that can't care for them effectively | second hand smoking | pollution and its effect on health |
Jose Gutierrez | education | environment | |
Kaitlin Goerner | AIDS in Africa | sex slave trade (children) in Thailand | starvation |
Kishore Khan | ending global poverty | children workers/abuse prevention | helping kids get through college |
Matt Hogan | poverty | social inequality | health education |
Melizza Rodriguez | healthcare for the poor (medications for the poor) | ||
Paul Rezvani | poverty | immigration | energy |
Pouya Feizpour | poverty | child slavery | waste and recycling |
Randi Voss | stop trafficking in people (sex trade using children - esp. thailand) | help women achieve financial autonomy through fair trade clothing company | art opportunities for everyone (maybe in austin) |
Spoorthy Gudavalli | illiteracy among children in 3rd world countries | women empowerment | impoverished children |
Stephanie Orci | promoting education in at risk areas | literacy for everyone (disabled, minorities) | microinvesting (esp. for women) |
Sudhir Shenoy | unethical labor practices | poverty | education |
Susannah Payne | education (increasing access to literature) | rural development | environmental education (global sustainability) |