tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-68742272358588506932024-03-07T22:35:01.173-08:00Design for ChangeAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03579843022835637318noreply@blogger.comBlogger20125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6874227235858850693.post-70678038675538660962015-04-08T03:40:00.000-07:002015-04-08T03:40:57.305-07:00<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b>Alfonso Romo - Mexico</b></div>
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<b>Taking the first step is famously the most difficult part of any journey. </b>However, by taking the first step, you begin to move in a specific direction. This movement is critical to success and to reaching your destination. Imagine a ship dead in the water. You can move the rudder all you want, but until the ship moves you’re not going anywhere. The same principle applies to setting and realizing a vision. Where there is movement a “success friendly” force is created. </div>
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Also key to realizing your vision is persistence. Persistence is the combination of conviction or passion for the cause (vision), and faith that a successful outcome is assured if only you don’t quit</div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none; text-decoration: underline;">So vision, taking the first step, and persistence enable “challenge conquering.”</span> When I asked Alfonso what his biggest Design for Change (DFC) challenge was, and how he overcame it, his response was definite.</div>
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“One of the biggest challenges I faced was to convince donors and allies that something that could be explained in four words could be so powerful and capable to generate a social change movement. I overcome it with conviction and hard work and a fair amount of luck. Now that we can show more than 15,000 stories of change is different.”</div>
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In the discussion, it was clear that Alfonso’s energy went a long way toward “taking the first step,” but his persistence brought the success. <i>Listen</i> for it in what he said.</div>
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“Even in the face of temporary setbacks and micro-failures, we remained determined in our desire to share with everyone.”</div>
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“Also, it is been very challenging trying to reach all the schools in Mexico that is something we are still working on. We believe that we can overcome this challenge by establishing strong collaborative relations with the private, public and civil sector, working with other organizations that from all sectors, share our passion about education and the belief that this is the way we can change Mexico… and the world.”</div>
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If passion is the sum of vision, energy, and conviction, then Alfonso certainly is a passionate man. He and his team have had great success in spreading the DFC contagion in Mexico. His passion has been aimed at finding financial support too.</div>
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I asked Alfonso how they’ve raised the needed funds. What has worked?</div>
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“We mainly receive donations from corporate foundations and corporations. Networking is very important, sharing what we do every time we have the opportunity, conferences, and business meetings, being willing to present the project, share the stories and evidence of the impact.” </div>
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Persistence and patience are needed.”</div>
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While he didn’t say so specifically, there is little doubt Alfonso has faith in a successful outcome. He is a true believer! He’s also willing to work very hard. To do what it takes. He and his team are dedicated.</div>
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“Stubbornness, you have to be very dedicated and push and push. You have to be willing to put not only strategy and intelligence but a lot of hours behind it to make it happen.”</div>
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Have you heard the phrase, “Many hands make light work?” Alfonso is not alone, and he relies on his team, and they him. He reaches out and recruits others to help too. </div>
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“Allies, we have to be able to align objectives and see in what we are the same and forget about small difference. You have to let go of pride and put the end result and objective of the project before anything else.”</div>
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Ultimately, our conversation drifts back to why. Why spend so much time and energy? Alfonso is quick to give inspiring examples. </div>
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Talking to the teachers in schools provides instant feedback: </div>
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“The most inspiring moments for the team are those that come from talking with the teachers leading “Design for Change” in their schools.” </div>
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“Reading those emails or receiving those calls where teachers share their experiences, challenges and above of all, the effort, work and commitment they have to facilitate a meaningful experience for their students. Those stories are always inspiring for all of us!” </div>
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Sometimes, incredibly inspiring moments grow out of one specific situation. A single little girl who is a true Superhero can shine as bright as a sun. </div>
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“A little girl form a rural school called our offices crying, we didn’t know what was happening, so we picked up the phone to ask her what was wrong, she told us that none of the teachers or her peers wanted to do DFC but that she really wanted to participated and asked/begged to let her do it by herself, of course we let her, next year the full groups from that school participated thanks to the courage and drive of this little girl… Goes to show, we only need one really driven person…</div>
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What’s next? I asked him what he is most looking forward to in the future. His answer was in two parts, beginning with the 2015 Be The Change (BTC) Conference.</div>
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<b><i>For now, Alfonso and his team are asking that we mark our calendars on September 25-26, 2015 for the BTC Conference. Following the Conference on September 27-28 the Partners meeting will be held. The host city will be beautiful Monterrey.</i></b></div>
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The second part is really where he began. With Alfonso’s customary vision he sees the DFC journey continuing. He has big plans and larger goals!</div>
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“I am also looking forward to increase the number of projects and schools that participate in “Diseña el Cambio Mexico”. We will do it with the collaboration of strategic allies and by implementing a communication strategy that will allow us to share the amazing stories of our students and teachers, inspiring more Mexicans to be part of this movement.” </div>
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Alfonso was born in Monterrey, a city in the northeastern state of Nuevo Leon in Mexico. He still lives in Monterrey. He attended the Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (better know as Tec de Monterrey) graduating with a degree in Agricultural Engineering. After graduating, he founded EducarUno. He has been President and CEO since the beginning. He has travelled extensively. He has journeyed to Japan, Australia, Singapore, Indonesia, Malasia, Tailandia, Macedonia, and several destinations in Europe. He has been the recipient of a number of highly prestigious awards including the Rockefeller Award Youth Innovator; Index: Design to Improve Life; Leaders in Action (CLASE); Universidad del Valle de México on Social Development. </div>
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Alfonso attended the 2012 and 2014 Be The Change Conferences in Ahmedabad, India. </div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none; text-decoration: underline;">Vision is the ability to think about and plan the future with imagination and wisdom</span>. It does several important things for us as individuals and for the organizations we belong to. <b>It points a direction and gives us a push to begin moving.</b> Within an organization it unites everyone’s efforts. </div>
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<i>“The plan is to scale the DFC Movement in India and work with the institutional partners. The end goal is to develop a bouquet of ‘design thinking’ products and services, and transit DFC India into a sustainable social enterprise.”</i></div>
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She related a plan to me that calls for the creation of a range of design thinking products and services. This effort is well underway. For example, the Design Thinking Guide (DTG) is currently in the pilot stage in the eighth grades of 60 schools across India. </div>
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<i>The DTG nurtures the natural ability of children and students to imagine. Using the FEEL-IMAGINE-DO-SHARE framework, it equips them with the tools they will use over their lifetimes to shape a better world. It will keep alive and grow what we know is true. Children are dreamers, and they have the vision to see the future completed in advance.</i> </div>
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“The single <b>most important lesson learned has been persistence</b>; to BELIEVE in the cause of DFC and to not give up despite multiple challenges. YES WE CAN!!”</div>
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<i>“</i>Funding! Funding! Funding! This has been the biggest challenge yet! The only way to overcome it is to keep making the pitches and get better at it. Also important is to seek feedback, refine one’s communication, and ensure that it is more outside in, more user centered.” </div>
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So, I asked her what DFC India has done to raise funds. What’s worked? Nandini described fundraising efforts in three categories: Domestic funding organizations, corporate sponsors and high net worth individuals. The greatest success has been with the second two. Recently, out of the second category, a three year sponsorship connection was made with an Indian corporation called Parle G. They are the world’s largest selling brand of biscuits and are a good example of a situation where the vision and mission of the brand aligned well with DFC. Out of the third category, a number of wealthy individuals have been generous with their resources. </div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none; text-decoration: underline;">The combination of vision, lessons learned and persistence often leads to inspiring results.</span> It did for DFC India in 2014. There is evidence. What do you get when you gather 500 students from 85 plus schools? In Nandini’s own words, </div>
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<i>“</i><b><i>Over the last year the most inspiring moment was to see the auditorium teeming over at the I CAN Awards 2014</i></b><i>! Over 500 students and teachers joined us. Some of the children had travelled out of their remote villages for the very first time to come to Ahmedabad to be acknowledged and facilitated as Superheroes of CHANGE!”</i></div>
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This year the combination of vision, lessons learned, and persistence was celebrated at the Entrepreneurship Development Institute of India (EDI). 1992 projects were submitted from across India representing the largest number received since the beginning of the DFC movement in 2009. <i>In the first year under Nandini’s leadership DFC India submissions were more than double the previous highest number.</i> 100 schools were invited to the I CAN Awards with over 85 attending.</div>
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<i>“On September 5</i><span style="font-size: 6.7px;"><i><sup>th</sup></i></span><i> which is celebrated as Teacher’s day in India, I received a call from a very enthusiastic teacher who was participating in the DFC I CAN School Challenge. She brought me to tears with her generous praise of the movement and thanked me profusely for helping her recognize the potential of her students.”</i></div>
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Yes, it was quite a year for Nandini and DFC Team India. Job well done! What’s next? The upward spiral continues. The vision is still there. Lessons will continue to be learned, and persistence will build more success.</div>
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She is a communication designer and graduate of the National Institute of Design (NID) in Ahmedabad.</div>
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Early in her career, Nandini was in advertising selling detergent and cookies. Before long, she heard the call from education. She answered that call and has been in education for sixteen years. Nandini has applied her energy and enthusiasm across a wide spectrum of education segments. She has designed e-learning for the Test Prep industry, and helped set up and scale an urban K-12 school chain. She lead the design and development of a “school in a box,” aimed at creating a workable social enterprise model for budget schools to serve the poor in rural India. More recently, in January 2014, Nandini joined Design for Change to lead the India effort, and is CEO of Design for Change-India.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">2015 looks to be a promising year for Design For change with a number of new partners kickstarting their operations on field and our existing partners working towards increasing their reach, support and impact. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">The 'Be The Change' celebrations bring together and provides a platform to young changemakers where their power to change the world around them is recognized and honoured. In 2015, Mexico gears up to host the 2015 Be The Change (BTC) Celebrations for the first time. In the past the BTC celebrations have been held in Ahmedabad, India. Going forward, these BTC celebrations would be hosted by a different partner country each year. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">With the implementation going on in full swing in 22 countries, training, setting up systems and processes in place are some of the main aspects that most countries will be focussing on this year. Fundraising being another crucial area in ensuring the project's sustainability. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">In 2014, the Design Thinking Curriculum was piloted in around 64 schools in India. The
year long immersive ‘I Can’ design thinking curriculum works towards developing and nurturing the required behaviour and skills both in students and in teachers as facilitators
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lead to larger school/ community level transformations. 2015 will see India implement this curriculum in 100 schools. Apart from this, few other countries are also looking to work with the curriculum in their respective schools. </span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03579843022835637318noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6874227235858850693.post-74270327563127278342015-01-12T22:57:00.001-08:002015-01-14T09:23:23.367-08:00Celebrations & Recognition<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The eventful year of 2014 saw two marvelous celebrations of the power of children, manifested in the “Be The Change” conference which took place in Ahmedabad, India and the “Sea Of Change” held in Taipei, Taiwan.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-LKiXL_DTUXc/VLTBfyo409I/AAAAAAAAD7k/oZPq7z5FjCw/s1600/Indian%2BChangemakers%2Bsharing%2Bthier%2Bpart%2Bof%2Bbeing%2Bcitizen%2Bleaders.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-LKiXL_DTUXc/VLTBfyo409I/AAAAAAAAD7k/oZPq7z5FjCw/s1600/Indian%2BChangemakers%2Bsharing%2Bthier%2Bpart%2Bof%2Bbeing%2Bcitizen%2Bleaders.JPG" height="212" width="320" /></a></span></div>
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">long as you believe that you CAN, change will happen. The average age of the child attendee at this 2 day conference was only 14 years, and the attendees came from 22 countries across the globe. All these inspiring superheroes lit up the stage with their magnificent presence, sharing with a crowd of more than 500 people the inspiration that drives them, how they dealt with the hurdles and what they took away from participating in DFC.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Both the days of the conference radiated ounces of energy, so much so that it was nearly impossible to spot a single face that left the space without a wide smile on their face or tears in their eyes. This year, Design For Change really proved the power of celebration and collaboration. To make this BTC grand, we saw masterclasses by some of the most brilliant personalities in their respective fields. The highlight would definitely be Abhijat Joshi (filmwriter), Jaaved Jaffrey (actor) and Arnab Choudhary (film-maker, animator) at the BTC celebration. The three of them shared how important it is for them to remember the “I Can” spirit especially because of the industry they work in. Despite tremendous failures and innumerable opportunities where they could have let of the “right” thing to gain a little more fame or wealth, they stayed true to their values. Although the three of them are really distinct personalities, the one thing they agreed on was how the kids at the conference have reignited </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">hope in them and how proud they are to endorse the spirit of Design For Change. The one thing we can all never forget, however, is Jaaved Jaffrey’s little stand-up comedy act that wrapped up that masterclass.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">There were endless more memories I’m sure - the tea break conversations, clicking selfies with the celebrities, marvelling at brilliant graffiti art in the making, the Parle-G installation that took various shapes and sizes, the mind blowing performance by Dhaaravi Rocks! </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Catch glimpses of the celebrations <a href="http://youtu.be/0SAli3HFSDw" target="_blank">here</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The first ever Sea Of Change conference was an unimaginable success. With a whopping attendance of 800 people, it was a “true celebration of children, culture and change,” says Kiran Bir Sethi. The stories that were highlighted in the conference were nothing but inspiring and DFC Taiwan made it marvelous by inviting some very inspiring personalities to interact with the attendees.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mr. Candle, who is a performer in Taiwan, shared with the kids the importance of grit and courage in anything they do. David Liu, who is an ex-animator from </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-1SMoDwEQjjE/VLTBv2hdOFI/AAAAAAAAD70/wTpV2JDF804/s1600/SOC.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-1SMoDwEQjjE/VLTBv2hdOFI/AAAAAAAAD70/wTpV2JDF804/s1600/SOC.jpg" height="213" width="320" /></a></span></div>
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Disney and has contributed to the production of The Lion King, Mulan and various other renowned films, shared with everyone the importance of imagination in the marriage of his passion, compassion and competence. Another important personality at this conference was Mr Lin, a Taiwanese educationalist, who truly exhibits the fact that action is the most important thing to create change. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A 113 children had the pleasure of attending this event, and truly learnt to appreciate each other as superheroes. At both, the BTC and SOC, every child was made to feel not only recognised for their talent, determination, creativity and good work, but they felt like real SUPERHEROES. Therefore my friends, MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03579843022835637318noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6874227235858850693.post-92090369327872016522015-01-12T22:12:00.004-08:002015-01-12T22:12:53.701-08:00Stories of Change<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span lang="EN-US">Some of the most inspiring Design for
Change stories of 2014 were -<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">BENIN
– Fighting Against Forced Marriage. <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Helene’s story has been one of the most
moving stories of change that DFC has received. In a village where girls are
forced to get married, Helene chose to take a stand for herself and her peers
and speak out against this practice. With the guidance of FAWE Benin and mentor
Tome Constant, not only did Helene successfully convince her own family and the
family to condemn this practice, but she also traveled all the way to
Ahmedabad, India to share her incredible story at the Be The Change Celebration
2014 and left the audience with goosebumps. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Watch her story <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVnzi0UUhKY" target="_blank">here</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">PORTUGAL
</span></b><span lang="EN-US">– <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">A Story
Tale for All</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">6<sup>th</sup> grade students of the Escola
Eugenio de Andrade in Portugal realized that the magic of listening to stories
was absent for their peers who could not hear. To bring this experience alive,
these students identified a popular Portuguese children’s story, narrated it in
sign language and recorded it on video, thus gifting the experience of
‘listening’ to a story to all their friends.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Watch the video <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2Yz8vyTNjE" target="_blank">here</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">COLOMBIA
– Where Our Culture Lives On<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Jean and his friends at the Etnoeducativa
Bilingue Inga Mocoa School were very sensitive of the fact that their
generation was losing touch with traditional Inga culture of their ancestors.
With all their collective 17-year-old optimism and determination, Jean and his
friends created systems and designed a curriculum through which their younger
peers could experience and inculcate their culture and language. As he shared
his story at the Be The Change Celebration with a unique wisdom and
sensitivity, the audience knew that the future of the Inga culture was in
incredibly capable hands. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Watch his story <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRYilrUz2Vc" target="_blank">here</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">CHILE
– A ‘CAN’teen for All!<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">11-year-old Daniela, Christian and their
friends from the </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family: "Lucida Grande"; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">George
Chaytor English College in Temuco, Chile, took on a problem that they faced in
school everyday – the older and taller students would monopolize the school
canteen and the younger ones would go back empty handed, not even reaching the
counter. In their wonderfully spirited re-telling of their journey at the Be
The Change Celebration, Daniela and Christian shared the most important lesson
they had learnt in the process – “In order to get respect, you must first give
respect.“</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Watch their story <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IS1qnVcHpkA" target="_blank">here</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">CAMEROON
– Having a BALL!<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Sister Vicki and her 5-year-old
kindergarten students at the Ecole Maternelle Saint Joseph Manyanet Yaounde-Cameroun
proved to the world with this fantastic DFC story that you are never too young
to be a design thinker! With a systematic, democratic process that many adults
could learn from, these children chose to address the problem of not having a
football to play with. With their wonderful brainstorming and prototyping, it
was only a matter of time before they succeeded!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Watch their story <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rp4rKd3oc3s" target="_blank">here</a>. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">DENMARK
– Come As You Are<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">15-year-old Astrid, Camilla and their
friends at Skorpeskolen in Helsingoer, Denmark found themselves feeling
insecure about how they looked because of the images of ‘beauty’ as portrayed
in the world around them. To show their friends and the world that real beauty
lay on the inside, they organized a fashion show encouraging the friends to
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">PERU
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<span lang="EN-US">“In reality, today, education has to do
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">In 2009, when Design For Change was first launched, over 700 stories of change impacting were submitted by children across the Indian subcontinent. The following year, Design For Change went global receiving a little over 2000 stories from children around the world. </span><br />
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Reported and posted by David Wygant.</div>
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This video clip appeared on my Facebook News Feed a week ago. Many thanks to Reena Ramanan for sharing what looks like an original post by Pranjali Madhur. As the video clip begins, a new teacher is entering her classroom for the first time and finds the students enjoying themselves a little too much. From that first meeting, she transforms the class and students by what she does next, and by what she doesn’t do. </div>
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I hope you enjoy this <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsApwK9khRo">CLASS OF ROWDIES</a>. </div>
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As this video shows and tells, the education-development of our students and youth is more about setting their spirits free in a safe space then it is about anything else. This is a universal truth that applies everywhere because all children are really the same. It is only in becoming adults that unimportant things, beliefs and biases begin to overwhelm the truth. What is the truth? The truth is simply that we are all cut from the same cloth. Yet, each of us have our own personal set of unlimited possibilities and potential. We can all fly if only no one will clip our wings!</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03579843022835637318noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6874227235858850693.post-67198838327727299032014-11-10T19:35:00.000-08:002014-11-10T19:35:29.461-08:00<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b>Global Catalyst</b></div>
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Story told by David Wygant</div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none; text-decoration: underline;"><i>Author’s Note</i></span><i>: It is always my privilege to write the Global Catalyst stories. Their stories are always amazing and inspiring. As Doug tells his story, I hope you enjoy reading it as much as I did writing it with him. </i></div>
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<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-T88db1Y98zc/VGGB82W-4yI/AAAAAAAABMM/bVvH9j04a_c/s1600/Doug.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-T88db1Y98zc/VGGB82W-4yI/AAAAAAAABMM/bVvH9j04a_c/s1600/Doug.jpg" height="320" width="175" /></a><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">We are thankful that our Design for Change (DFC) team is both blessed and challenged by the same things at the same time.</span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;"> </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">We are thankful because sometimes in life only the challenges come without the answers and blessings.</span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;"> </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">In our case, all of us on the DFC team are full time teachers.</span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;"> </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">Finding the amount of time we’d like to dedicate to the effort can be difficult, which is our challenge.</span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;"> </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">On the other hand, we are also blessed by our full time teaching status.</span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;"> </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">Through our instruction and example as teachers, we can blend the I CAN spirit and mindset into everything we say and do.</span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;"> </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">We never lose the opportunity to integrate the “design thinking model” into all of our moments.</span></div>
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At this stage our fundraising is modest, but sufficient. There is growth one step at a time, and there are blessings to count. Any money we can raise, or that we receive, we’ve donated back to the local nonprofit organizations to help those in need and to help fund projects. In our giving, we receive too. Our school district has given us “release time” so that we can meet and plan as a team. In all schools, time outside of the classroom is beyond precious. By spending this time together, our planning is clear and focused, helping us keep forward momentum as a team. Looking ahead, our goal is to find a way to raise enough funds so that we can bring a small group of people to Mexico for the 2015 Be the Change Conference.</div>
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Our most inspiring moment as a team was when we had a student showcase of all the I CAN projects designed and implemented by the students. It was in May of 2013 that over 200 Superheroes shared their stories of change. My most personally inspiring moments occurred when I visited Ahmedabad in 2013. At the Be the Change Conference that year I met children and adults from all over the world who shared a common inspiration, and were the most inspiring group of individuals I’ve ever met. </div>
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Now, our vision is all forward. We see future growth in the DFC-Canada program in our school community and beyond. We’ve recently ordered copies of the 2014 I CAN book and plan to share them across the school district in kits that will include the Feel, Imagine, Do, Share “design thinking model.” The kits will also include supporting documents that are meant to ignite inquiry, curiosity and design thinking around current issues like poverty, biodiversity, children's rights, and the power of the media. </div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Change can be difficult, but not for Design for Change (DFC) Superheroes. DFC Superheroes transform the world through the amazing and creative projects that they FEEL, IMAGINE, DO and SHARE. DFC is about watching the kids learn that “they can” so that each can say I CAN, and in the end say WE DID. These words mirror Maria’s words when she describes selecting winning projects in Colombia. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">“Every time we select the winning projects is an inspiring moment because each initiative is so amazing, creative and transformational. They help us believe in the change. For example, in 2012 our first year, the winning project was a project in which they recycled cooking oil from their school and turned it into handmade soap.”</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Maria tells that what they have seen in Colombia, she is sure must be happening around the world. During an eight month period of time she traveled around the world, and learned how inspiring it can be to discover and know other cultures, and how small the world really is. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">DFC offers many challenges and opportunities to grow. She has new friends who share the same passions for helping Superheroes create a better world. To gain all of these things, she has had to work hard. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">“Reaching out to many schools so that we can get a minimum number of projects has not been easy, but we have worked hard. It has been a constant learning process. “</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">“In Colombia we are inspired learners now. We are inspired by the children who are changing the world through DFC. Every year we have learned something new. There have been learnings about the projects, the calendar and timeline, and about our website and internet efforts.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; letter-spacing: 0.0px;">These days, Maria’s smile is a little brighter. When asked about the future, she says, “I want to be</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> a happy person, and do what makes me feel fulfilled professionally and personally.” No doubt, both Maria and DFC can look forward to a bright future.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Maria currently resides in Bogota, Colombia, and was born there. She is a lawyer with a Master in Human Rights. Her legal studies began at the Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá, Colombia. Maria then studied her Masters in Human Rights in Madrid, Spain, at the Carlos III University. While in Madrid, Spain she traveled extensively in the area. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Maria has broad international experience across several organizations including the International Organization for Migrations, the International Red Cross in Spain and the International Toledo Center for Peace.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Natalia used the 2012 Be the Change Conference as her launch pad for blasting into Design for Change. Indeed, Natalia brings the energy of a rocket to the effort and adventure, although, she credits other people for inspiring her. In her own words, “I decided definitely to jump on board with this incredibly talented, generous and sweet team of global partners.”</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">More words from Natalia:</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">“Our inspiration grows as the children bring results and success. When we received our first batch of videos we were moved and excited by the results.</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">It was inspiring to see what the children in Chile had done.”</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">“Apart from the winning story which Semanti has brilliantly called “A CANteen for All,” there was a group that organized a network of schools and municipal entities to care for the elderly in their neighborhood. A third group of children worked on finding a way to protect the environment in the gorgeous region of Chile where they live.”</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">When asked about the future, Natalia says, “How can I not think that the future for Design for Change and for Chile holds much promise? I really want DFC Chile to grow and become strong. I really am looking forward to achieving all the things I have in mind but still have not reached.”</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">In the end, she seems to just face forward and walk one step at a time. She uses simple words to describe her solid determination: “To be brave and to just continue doing what I’m supposed to do, when I’m in the face of difficulties.’</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Natalia was born in Santiago, Chile and currently lives in Washington DC. She is a teacher with a Masters in Aesthetics and a Masters in Literature from American University. Natalia worked as a teacher for 15 years in the classroom followed by several years at the Embassy of Chile in the USA. She has spent the past five years translating, including 2 years with Design for Change.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Natalia’s travels include much of South America, the USA, Italy and India. She has done some writing beginning with a grant to study for her Masters in Literature. An English textbook that she and two colleagues wrote won the Chilean Government call for bids and was widely published in the Chilean public school system.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Big accomplishments begin with big goals. Lydia is very definite when it comes to her goals. When asked what her Design for Change goal is, she replied, “To grow Design for Change in Harare, and spread it to all provinces so that it becomes an annual event in Zimbabwe.”</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Like other Design for Change programs, Lydia describes how they have to strategize and use low cost options when possible. She continues to push forward whatever steps to be taken towards having fully fledged Design for Change programs in Zimbabwe. A new step in 2014 is seeking various kinds of support from the corporate world.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Meeting challenge has made Lydia realize the need for being innovative. She has thus drawn many lessons of out DFC. She was also excited about how girls gladly joined the boys; took up the DFC challenge and did “male dominated tasks” holding the trowel and placing sharp glasses on the wall. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Lydia is quick to declare that she has learned that, “children can achieve more, and that communities where they live provide a lot of support and resources.” Lydia offers the following example: “When the rest of the school gathered to see the project that they had done, they found that the children had made a plan to ensure that the wall was not a passage way out of the school, no-one could jump over it or had easy access to leave the school through the wall. Everyone remained safe inside the school.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Inspiration feeds upon itself taking us higher and higher. It unlocks and unleashes the possibilities of human potential. To this end, Lydia tells that her most inspiring experience to date has been, “seeing children prioritize when there are many issues and options, but yet come up with a simple yet effective method to secure the school wall.”</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Lydia is currently the National Coordinator for the Forum for African Women Educationalists Zimbabwe Chapter (FAWEZI) in Harare, Zimbabwe. FAWEZI is an affiliate of the Forum for African Women Educationalists (FAWE), a Nairobi based pan-African non-governmental organization. FAWE is a network of leading African female educationalists and researchers, among them women Ministers of Education, education planners and managers, and university Vice Chancellors. FAWEZI’s mission is to promote gender equity and equality in education systems by fostering positive policies, practices and attitudes towards girls’ education. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">She was born in Mashonaland West Province, Zimbabwe. Lydia holds a Master of Science Degree in Development Studies from the National University of Science and Technology (NUST) in Zimbabwe. After 2008, Lydia joined FAWEZI and ever since, she has spent all of her time in development work. While she has other responsibilities, Design for Change is one of her key projects, and is fully integrated into her current position.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Lydia has traveled in the following African countries: Zambia, South Africa, Kenya, Mozambique, Tanzania, Burkina Faso and Morroco. She has also traveled to India, attending her first Be the Change Conference in 2013.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px; text-decoration: underline;">How do you find a person who wants to bring the I CAN spirit to every kid in China?</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> One that is willing to do their part in reforming the education process at the same time, thereby bringing basic education to the underprivileged kids, and reformation to a system of public examination that creates great pressure and stress.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><i>NOTE: While on this search, don’t forget that the “dimensions” of China are almost beyond comprehension. China is a country with a population 1.356 billion, a land area of 9,569,901 square kilometers, the third largest economy in the world behind the USA and EU, and approximately 211 million children attend school, primary through post secondary. </i></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px; text-decoration: underline;">Answer:</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> You let them find you. Indeed, thank our lucky stars that she found herself for us. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>Let me now introduce Carrie Tang.</b> </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Carrie is the Chairperson of the Design For Child Association and Associate Director of <a href="https://www.facebook.com/playtaohk?ref=br_tf"><span style="color: black; letter-spacing: 0px;">Playtao</span></a> Education. She publishes a free magazine called <a href="https://www.facebook.com/DreamMagHK"><span style="color: black; letter-spacing: 0px;">DreamMag</span></a>, and volunteers with <a href="https://www.facebook.com/sowergift"><span style="color: black; letter-spacing: 0px;">Sowergift</span></a> (to spread seeds of happiness) and “<a href="https://www.facebook.com/goinsidehk/timeline"><span style="color: black; letter-spacing: 0px;">Go Inside Cafe</span></a>” in Hong Kong (where deaf waiters are hired). Carrie has published two books. In 2011 she received the ATV Touching Hearts Campaign Award, followed by the Hong Kong Youth Social Entrepreneurs Award in 2013.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Carrie’s first contact with Design for Change (DFC) was at a MAD (Make a Difference) Conference in January of 2012. Initially, she was interested in what Kiran had to say about Riverside School, but that was soon to change. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">In Carrie’s own words: <i>“Yes, I first heard and met Kiran at the MAD conference in January 2012, but I didn't know anything about DFC. I was just attracted by her concept of Riverside school. At the conference, I didn't chat with her after her talk because of the crowd. However, later, I searched for Riverside School on the internet, and I watched her TED Talk. At that point, I knew I must spread both her school ideas and DFC in China!”</i></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">When I decided to bring DFC to China, several things spoke to me from my heart. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I’ve always wanted to make a contribution to the birth place (China) of my parents. We all owe much to our parents and it’s important to give back so that the “chain” isn’t broken. I also hoped that by catching children in China in the act of doing good I might help change the view of China in other countries. It is my hope that DFC will help build bridges with the world. It is also important to me that I fill my life with activities that are consistent with my Christian values. For me it feels like a “calling.” </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">The most important thing is what it does for the children. DFC builds empathy and teamwork (very weak in China) during the four steps, FEEL-IMAGINE-DO-SHARE. These are powerful life lessons for the children to learn.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">In China the education system is very resistant to change. The children are busy for many hours each day. It was impossible to add an extra class or find more time at school. However, because social media is very popular, we used it to reach teachers, social workers and volunteers who in turn brought FEEL-IMAGINE-DO-SHARE to the kids. Since the DFC program is “open source” and adaptable, we made it work. It was the virtual world that brought us together. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">The amount of support DFC received from the school authorities depended on the specific cities. We found that where they might reject a direct approach from us, if we focused on marketing and creating high quality materials, educators and policymakers would approach us instead. In the end, sometimes there was acceptance and support, and sometimes there wasn’t. Either way, we just kept moving ahead. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px; text-decoration: underline;">We “imagined” three steps to help us begin:</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> First, I designed the DFC China website, and wrote a long “sharing letter” about my feelings toward education. I wrote that I thought it was important to bring DFC to China. Second, I published the “sharing letter” in Weibo (which is like Facebook in China) to look for support and connections. I asked everyone to send me an email, and give me enough support so that I could visit them with a workshop. Third, I built my core DFC China team.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px; text-decoration: underline;">I always think of “Soup Bowl with a Prayer” when I think of our first story.</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> It was really called Red Bean Share, and came out of Shanghai. A bunch of kids thought that if the community would interact more, they would be more loving and caring. So, they prepared red bean soup and gave it to anyone passing on the street. When they gave the soup, they included a blessing. In the beginning, everyone was hesitant to accept the soup, but soon more would accept both the soup and the blessing. Through this act of giving, new connections were created. The highlight was when the students gave greetings and love to nearly 400 staff members of Yan Yiu Factory!</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">In the “DOing” we also faced challenges. The vague and complicated laws and accounting regulations for running non-profit projects in China were the biggest challenges. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Our first year strategy included several activities beginning with the four step process (FIDS) and a lot of passion. We trained volunteers and restructured some of the DFC guiding materials. Our focus was on the internet and social media. As a result, DFC has spread to the main cities. Now our attention has turned more toward the rural part of China. The energy for what we do comes from our sincere and devoted hearts, and from the examples of our actions. The energy to continue and grow has come from strangers we have met on Weibo during this entire adventure. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Our DFC China team has eight core members including me. We’ve recruited key volunteers as local contacts in cities (18+ now). These volunteers promote and support the DFC tools and coordinate workshops. One part time staff member, who is a passionate designer, is in charge of video, graphic design and promotion work. We have a bunch of regional volunteers to promote DFC for us too. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">My focus within the team is fundraising and DFC training. Again, through social media, our story has attracted local organizations to fund and support our annual prize presentation. Travel costs and expenses for workshops that we give are funded by the interested organizations.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Looking back now, the first six months of our DFC China effort was a high point. In spite of the fact that DFC China was new, many still supported me and my dreams. For example, after my first “sharing letter,” I received emails from over ten cities within a week. This was the first step in turning my dreams into the dreams of others. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I also learned that there is a very practical side. After the first DFC China prize presentation in 2013, we didn’t have enough money to pay all of our expenses. With big hearts, several of my core team members (adult superheroes) contributed enough to balance our accounts. It was a moving gesture and it drove my own dedication to new heights.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">In the story of DFC China, I feel that only several lessons are most important. Only several are most basic. It’s important to be passionate and to have faith. When you are doing something good for society and you work hard on it, support will come. </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px; text-decoration: underline;">Your hard work will earn it, and your faith will bring it. The more you believe in yourself and your team, the more contagious you all become.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">What do creative thinkers do?</span></b><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They explore and experiment in
what they can see around them, and inside the spaces of thought and
thinking.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Pedro is such a person.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Supported by his experience managing
international social and business projects, he has found a natural outlet for
his social innovation passion in his leadership of Design for Change (DFC) -
Spain.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Following his education and
experience as an industrial engineer and EMBA (Comillas), he has travelled the
globe to find programs in strategic intuition (Columbia), social
entrepreneurship (Stanford) and NGO leadership (ESADE).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Listen to how Pedro describes his introduction to
DFC.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">"It was in the summer of 2010. I was in
London when I heard about DFC through the HUB Network.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I contacted my friend Adrian who was leading
DFC in the UK.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He put me in touch with Kiran.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the meantime, unknown to me, he also
contacted Kiran about my interest in DFC.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Adrian and I would later have dinner together in Madrid where he
confessed that he had told Kiran she could expect great things from DFC
Spain.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now, that was my challenge."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">"Now everything in my life seemed to
align.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I had recently reflected on and
studied social enterprises.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I had
developed a passion to become a social entrepreneur.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I had met and experienced Kiran's charisma
and dedication.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I had seen the
opportunity to improve and reform the education system in Spain.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was ready to make the leap from an
international corporation where I had been an industrial engineer for eight
years to the social field that was my passion.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Listen to your own convictions</span></b><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Your experiences over time
are the echoes of truth. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="NL" style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ansi-language: NL; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Go deeper</span></b><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"> into an understanding of any problem by listening to the experiences
of others.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Don’t solve the wrong
problem. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Personalize, collaborate and experiment </span></b><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">by adding your voice and energy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Lead toward meaningful change through student I CAN initiatives.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Align cross sector collaborations.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Through our
efforts in Spain, we hope to become a relevant innovator in education. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Offer something different</span></b><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"> to students and the education program by demonstrating the
effectiveness of design thinking through DFC projects. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Put it together</span></b><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Take one idea.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Choose one week and put it into
practice.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then reflect on your action.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Align participation and cause</span></b><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"> with efficiency and impact.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Combine the best attributes of business and social organizations.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Match volunteer skills and passions</span></b><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"> with the needs of the organization. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">There is always money for good ideas and
committed teams.</span></b><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>In Spain, we have developed a funding method for the implementation of
Design For Change projects at schools.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Now we are focused on the core organization "Yo diseñ</span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ansi-language: ES-TRAD; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">o el Cambio"
Project.</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">First steps to forming a team</span></b><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At first I used my own
contacts to publicize the initiative, and the HUB Madrid Network to meet new
people interested in the project. We formed a couple of teams and collaborated
with a couple of design thinking organizations.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Then we decided to launch our own association that is called Yo diseñ</span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ansi-language: ES-TRAD; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">o el cambio. </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Today there are six team
members in DFC-Spain (Miguel, Mó</span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ansi-language: ES-TRAD; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">nica, Natxo, Natalia, Nuria y Pedro)</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In addition, there are
several practitioners who help us with creative processes for schools and
teachers, and a few other technology and creative partners.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Spreading the design thinking virus.</span></b><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Currently, the team is
considering a program in which kids would experiment with the basics of social
entrepreneurship. Whether this fits into an existing module, or stands alone
within a school program, hasn’t been determined.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It might fit differently in different schools
and classrooms.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In these schools and
classrooms, new tools for teamwork and leadership become available, and empathy
and collaboration become natural ingredients in the student learning
process.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The students will take their
lessons learned outside the school to their communities and their lives.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">"Who’s going to tell this?"</span></b><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"> I needed someone to transform these experiences into amazing stories
that could infect others.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Miguel, who is
a “Waker of Dreams” was that person.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">"Where might we carry out the first pilot
project?"</span></b><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"> Everything looked great. The next step
was to build a first prototype.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As the
first step, we wanted to take DFC to the schools.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So we created our first prototype for
children and teachers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We knew we needed
to give project ownership to the children.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Children should feel complete ownership of the project and the
process.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then they would make the right
decisions, and they would freely give the needed energy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The prototype also needed to help teachers
understand how to facilitate this result.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<b><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">“We wanted to reach out for best practices.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">What were the
other countries doing?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How had they
launched their project(s)?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On one side,
there was India and Mexico working with very large numbers, and on the other
side countries like the UK where the focus was on one or several schools in the
beginning.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As it turns out, the major
challenges to implementing DFC in schools were similar to those faced by the
children in their projects. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">"This is not about my idea.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">This is the most
common learning in children after their first DFC experience and one of the
biggest challenges we (adults) face today.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We are not used to teamwork. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Our first experience was in 2011</span></b><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"> at The Quercus, a concerted school of Boadilla del Monte in the
surroundings of Madrid, where Ana was a teacher in primary and secondary. There
we held our first DFC program with almost 50 children.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We launched the project telling the story of
Kiran as a mother and how she started Riverside school. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">During 2011, we sought to understand</span></b><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"> the DFC process and what it could bring to the educational world. We
set out to perform five pilot projects with different centers of
education.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Our aim was to explore how to
offer the opportunity to the largest possible number of children in Spain. To
do this we explored variety of schools and different levels of support to
teachers, and conducted the following experiences:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Three formal schools (Madrid, Tenerife and
San Sebastian), Cañada Real (Madrid) with a Social NGO as a Partner, and Casa
San Cristobal, partnering with a cultural organization, as an extracurricular
activity and facilitated entirely by our DFC Team.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">From the beginning, we’ve thought that teacher
support in the DFC process was key to success.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><b>A
toolkit</b> or teachers guide to facilitate DFC projects.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">The I CAN LAB</span></b><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"> where
teachers can explore and experiment one and a half days about how to facilitate
projects with children.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">A group of experts</span></b><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"> in the methodology to support schools that request our services.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<u><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Empathy</span></u><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"> (with teachers
and children) is the central pillar of a project.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Knowing that both <b>“learning by exploring”
and “learning by doing”</b> are critical, we set up laboratory
experiences.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><u>We don't teach</u>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As practitioners we seek to build
communities of teachers and sustainably expand the movement at the same
time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the future, we see an online
platform that will support and facilitate the creation of a sustainable DFC
Community.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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first stage.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However, the personal
growth of the team has been the highest point of the project.</span><b><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Lessons have sometimes been “<u>hard earned and well learned</u>.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">The project gives the leading role to
children.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They take responsibility for
their education.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Their commitment to
their community increases.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They become
different points from which the “virus” can spread.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They become CONTAGIOUS. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Their teachers are renewed and become
refreshed as both the children and teachers gain diverse and multi-cultural
viewpoints.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Teachers set the example of how to “BE THE
CHANGE.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Optimism grows and so does the trust children have
in themselves and their teams.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Real life
problems become solvable.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As they become
confident they become CONTAGIOUS.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In
turn, they set the example of how to “BE THE CHANGE.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">The quality of the projects, and their
sustainability over time, depends on the level of support teachers receive.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I CAN LABs for learning help teachers learn
to better facilitate and sustain DFC in schools. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Center stage is visual documentation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is key to generating stories and holding
attention in an exciting way.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><u>What
they can see in their imaginations they can become in real life</u>.</span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Trebuchet MS";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">What do we in Spain aspire to do in the future?<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">We want to be there, and do our share with DFC
World, in support of accelerating innovation and quality growth of the world
movement.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Create new models that teachers
and parents can use to facilitate DFC projects with Kids.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Start doing design thinking in schools on a
permanent basis. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Using DFC, create activities between schools that
foster learning and collaboration among their students.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Promote and support "DFCx" in
Schools.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Through better storytelling
(sharing) of DFC projects to increase the amount and quality of SHARING.</span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Trebuchet MS";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Find a way to bring the "I CAN bug" to
the employment sector to help create new jobs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Offer people a process and program whereby they can reinvent themselves</span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ansi-language: ES-TRAD; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">.</span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">DFC and the I CAN Lab have inspired us to design a “new Lab” that is aimed
at those who are unemployed in Spain, or those who are in a process of
professional change.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A safe place where
they can find support among their peers, and tools to help them explore new
possibilities.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A process that allows
them to experience a different way of innovating while pushing them to reinvent
themselves professionally. We want to create opportunities for those who
would like to make a difference in their lives.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We’d like to help them </span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ansi-language: ES-TRAD; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">build their creative confidence, and come up with new
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<b><u><span style="font-size: large;">The Coveted Global Catalyst Series</span></u></b></div>
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It had been a year since I visited The Riverside School, and
came back incredibly inspired by the many citizenship programs that its
students engaged with. It was on this visit that I got to know about Design for
Change. I was awe-amazed when I heard Kiran talk about the grand plan for DFC.
It was to run in hundreds of schools. I couldn’t quite wrap my head around the
size this idea would, and indeed has taken over. And then I heard Riverside’s 8<sup>th</sup>
grades talk about some stories of change, and I knew it was possible, and my
confidence grew. I was hooked! <o:p></o:p></div>
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Charity begins at home. Especially when it is the most
obvious choice to begin with. I knew that if these ideas empowered children at
Riverside, they were surely to work with my children at Early Learning Centre.
The first pilot project was entirely the students’ idea: “ELC says NO to
packaged food” Of the many problems that the children brainstormed into
existence, TRASH was what bothered them the most, and they were not afraid to
give up their favorite snacks to rid our school of it. <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: BN;">We went to work immediately by taking
three steps. First, we formed<span lang="BN"> the DFC Core </span>T<span lang="BN">eam
from among the teaching staff at ELC</span>. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Second, we introduced the <span lang="BN">idea
to my students </span>in grades three-through-six. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Third, we <span lang="BN">commence</span>d<span lang="BN"> the DFC process with the </span>seventeen<span lang="BN"> students who
volunteered to “make a change.</span>” W<span lang="BN">e were fired up,
enthused, and challenged to begin the process -- even though we weren’t quite
sure </span>how we would take DFC<span lang="BN"> beyond </span>the <span lang="BN">ELC! </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Nonetheless, that
first year, 2010, we <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">recruited nine
schools</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: BN;">From then on, there has been no going back. <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">We have worked hard to increase the rate of DFC participation in Bhutan.</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Most recently, our count has reached <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">eighteen schools</b>! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="BN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: BN;">Design For Change serves to
bring mindfulness to our school and our country by aligning </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: BN;">with</span></b><span lang="BN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: BN;"><b> the pillars of GNH in the <span style="mso-ansi-font-style: italic;">most</span> natural way</b>.</span><span lang="BN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: BN;"> As a case
in point, take our DFC Story of “Saying NO to Packaged Food”. Young children
leading the way in refusing packaged food aligns with Good Governance or </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: BN;">G<span lang="BN">ood </span>L<span lang="BN">eadership from a young age; when children replace packaged food with
indigenous food alternatives, cultural promotion is ascertained; when children
refuse to eat imported packaged food from neighbouring countries, and instead
promote their own farmers’ local produce, sustainable economic development is
secured.</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I<span lang="BN">t goes
without saying that environmental conservation was on the minds of the children
when they decided to get rid of trash or non-biodegradable waste in the first
place! <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="BN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: BN;">YAC, or Young Ambassadors of Change, ELC’s rural-urban
school partnership was established as an offshoot of Design For Change when our
rural schools began to show greater interest in DFC. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: BN;">These partnerships,<span lang="BN"> through the pure and true intention of making a difference, </span>have
allowed the ELC to experience the <span lang="BN">joy of giving</span>, and the
satisfaction of<span lang="BN"> creating “magical moments” for others</span>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: BN;"><b>The healing power of these moments means that there is no turning back for
us</b>. In addition to myself, there has been only one other adult working on
DFC.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Her name is Sylive Wolraven.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As a part-time DFC Coordinator, her efforts
with others schools in Bhutan, the Ministry of Education and DFC World
Headquarters in Ahmedabad have been key to our success.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sylive is from the Netherlands and recently
returned home.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She came to the ELC in
2011 and taught kindness and compassion as a volunteer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now, Ivor Hanson serves as our DFC
Coordinator (along with teaching part time).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Ivor comes to us from America.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So
there are still two of us working on DFC-Bhutan and we feel overwhelmed on a
regular basis, but we know DFC is here to stay. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="BN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: BN;">Overcoming fund raising challenges remains our biggest
hurdle to date.</span></b><span lang="BN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: BN;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: BN;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We have a key
endorsement from the <span lang="BN">Ministry of Education</span>, and we receive
<span lang="BN">contributions from various corporations and organizations</span>,
as well from <span lang="BN">personal friends and well-wishers</span>. Nonetheless,
<span lang="BN">these contributions are small. </span>W<span lang="BN">e need to
build on our </span>fundraising <span lang="BN">strategies</span>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We are confident in our ability to overcome these
challenges as we have in the past. We recently secured generous funding from
The Bhutan-India Foundation, which will help us attend the 2014 “Be the Change”
Conference.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: BN;">The DFC journey has been a remarkable one. <b>There is such gravity in the
program, that good things are bound to follow those who are willing to brave
the challenges</b>, even at the face of rejection, confusion and uncertainty. The
biggest learning through DFC has been my own ability to say, ‘I can’. After
all, how could I stay away from the power of self-belief DFC instills in
children? ‘I can’ make the world a better place, just like children in Bhutan,
as well as all over the world, are doing today!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><i>Bio of the Global Catalyst:</i></b> </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Deki</b>
lives in Thimphu, Bhutan where she is Principal and Proprietor of the Early
Learning Centre (ELC) which she founded in 1997. In 2009, 2010, and 2013, the ELC was declared
a top ten school in Bhutan.</span></i></span><i style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span></i><i style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="font-size: x-small;">She
has received a Bachelor of Arts from Columbia University in New York and a
Master of Arts (TEFL) from Reading University in the United Kingdom. </span></i></div>
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and mentor new teachers through programs of her own creation. She has education and child development
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03579843022835637318noreply@blogger.com0Thimphu, Bhutan27.4727924 89.63928629999998127.3600949 89.477924799999982 27.5854899 89.800647799999979tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6874227235858850693.post-67013738038972714992014-04-23T00:44:00.000-07:002014-04-23T00:45:38.396-07:00Getting Crazy with DFC<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<a href="http://www.dfcworld.com/">http://www.dfcworld.com/</a><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">The Crazy
Horse School in South Dakota participates regularly in the DFC challenge. Their
two main teachers helping to implement DFC are <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Jay Quarantello</b>, the history teacher, and <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Tara Harrington</b>, a Teach for America fellow.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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When Tara learnt about DFC, she was “really excited, because it takes a really
complex process that could feel overwhelming, and created it in a framework
that is very simplistic in the framing, without it taking away from the
complexity of the actual process.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">“Students
have witnessed a lot of people trying to create change, and then that not
coming to fruition, or there being a ton of barriers – those barriers being so
huge, that change does not happen,” she says. “So it is critical that students
in the FEEL stage feel empowered that change is possible.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">When Jay
met the students for the first DFC meeting, they went to a retreat. Why a
retreat? “We wanted something that definitely felt outside of
school. I wanted to provide something different and a little disconnected from school.
The second reason was that there are a lot of parts of their own community that
we wanted to explore, and I think removing ourselves from our comfort zone, and
taking a step back would’ve been interesting.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">However,
there have been challenges. “There are thousands of different solutions. They
have to critique their own solutions to understand what the potential change
would be’. They have to understand and be aware of different solutions – whether
change will be long term, or we’re dealing with a symptom and we may see
change, but it has to be sustained every year,” says Tara. “Further, at the DO
stage, teachers and students both need support in really knowing how to create
an action plan that will guide their action, and then to hold them accountable
for taking that action.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">When asked
how it had affected the students, Jay says, “I think its definitely
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young, enthusiastic change makers have a tough time in their community. Hopefully,
through DFC, they can make their lives much, much better. Best of luck to the
Crazy Horse School!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;">As told to David Wygant</span></i></span></div>
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<span class="s1">It was a gorgeous January day, 2009. <b>I was gathered in one of the Riverside School, </b> in Ahmedabad, India,<b> classrooms with many of the students</b>. I remember how excited the kids were. Kiran had just returned from Mexico and everyone knew she would have stories to tell. </span></div>
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<span class="s2">I’ll never forget the detail of my conversation with Kiran</span><span class="s1">.<b> </b>Through Design for Change, she has managed to combine education, social change, and design. These were all things that burned like fires for me. They ignited me. So, when she said, “Sanjli, you know I need a partner in the USA.” </span><span class="s2">I said, “Well you have me!</span><span class="s1">” </span></div>
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<span class="s1">At the time, it seemed like I was living my life waypoint to waypoint. I had conducted creativity workshops in Kenya and the Dominican Republic, but never would I have imagined that some of my contacts at Design Continuum in Boston would have placed me in front of Kiran at that moment in time. I was at Riverside School teaching students from the 6</span><span class="s3"><sup>th</sup></span><span class="s1"> grade, MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) inspired creativity workshops. Yes, I was really at Riverside School, I was talking to Kiran, and I had just committed to bringing DFC to America. </span></div>
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<span class="s1"><b>What to do?</b> The first thing I did was find a few people to join the team. We wanted to understand the educational environment in the USA. We wanted to understand the unique needs of American educators so that we could respond in a way that helped. Soon we piloted our first DFC project in a school so we could learn and fail quickly. We knew that if we learned as much as possible in the beginning we would succeed later. Two schools entered the Challenge that first year.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">Our first school was Pearl River Middle School in New York. Their project was to reduce negative messaging in the media. Their goal was to add positive ideas and messages. The project’s link<b>: </b><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_yfrZh9kS0"><span class="s4"><b>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_yfrZh9kS0</b></span></a></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><b>We started by approaching individual schools where we saw opportunity.</b> We quickly learned that it was hard to get schools onboard with little credibility and backing. We didn’t have an educator on the DFC USA team at the time to help us better appreciate the challenges teachers experienced when implementing such a program in terms of time and other resources. On the teacher side, they didn’t fully comprehend the value that DFC could bring to their schools – the idea of “design thinking” was new. Touching all of these pieces was the fact we were a team of volunteers. There were limits to the amount of time we could give individually, but we were very committed nonetheless. We are partnering with colleges and universities through our ‘Change Agent Initiative’ to recruit students who act as mentors tasked to support projects in their communities.</span></div>
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<span class="s1"><b>We drew energy from our belief in what DFC had to offer the schools and students who participated</b>. For example, the Share component gives students who are already changemakers a way to Share their accomplishments. Then inexperienced change makers could see the lessons already learned and move ahead more quickly with their projects. Share is a virtuous circle of support. </span></div>
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<span class="s1">Through the DFC curriculum, classrooms and schools can once again focus on service learning while they also work on and meet the required educational standards. The DFC curriculum is flexible and it easily overlays the core education content like reading, writing, math and many others. We created tools that can be used to document the academic accomplishments as the service project is implemented.</span></div>
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<span class="s1"><b>There have been high points and low points.</b> Without a doubt, the high point thus far has been watching a team from a very resource constrained community, work its way through the DFC framework to design and implement a project they are passionate about; and then go on to win the DFC-USA challenge. Look for them at the BTC Conference. They’ll be there! I’m not sure if it is a low point, but certainly one of our greatest challenges has been meeting the demands of all the schools and organizations we are working with – at a certain point, it becomes very difficult to customize our programs, given the limited size of our team – especially since we’re all volunteers.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">Another highlight going for us is the hosting of two major celebrations in Dallas and Boston in May, ’14. We are also piloting a DFC USA Online portal for teachers/ mentors/ students can fully engage with DFC resources and lesson plans. The feather in the hat has really been the fundraising of $150,000 for the DFC USA operations and hiring permanent staff; while simultaneously and rapidly growing our reach through partnerships with Ashoka, Teach for America, United Way and many others. </span></div>
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<span class="s1"><b>I think we’re learning our lessons</b>. </span></div>
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<span class="s1">Now we know building a team and organization is a continuing effort. So we continue to enlarge the DFC-USA team as our work requires, or, as we find dedicated people who bring a strong work ethic, a passion for the DFC mission, and a desire to do what is necessary to provide our students with the support they need. </span>It is essential to recognize and appreciate the challenge faced by teachers in their daily lives, and how we can offset those challenges through DFC. Find the right partners, whether they are schools or other organizations. As examples, we are currently working with Ashoka and Teach For America.</div>
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<span class="s1">Also, build a network of supporters who understand that you are a new, growing organization and are still learning and perfecting your model. </span>Know that there are a gazillion people out there who believe and support you – that’s what we realized through our fundraiser!</div>
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<span class="s1">We are learning how to ask for money. Recently, we raised $15,000 in eight weeks so that we could send the DFC team to India. As part of that effort, we conducted our first fundraising event. Next we are developing a compelling case to approach wealthy funders and granting organizations. </span></div>
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<span class="s1">We have learnt that visibility is important to inspire, and thus, lead change by inspiring others. With this in mind, we are creating our own DFC USA promotional film. Also, we are redesigning our website for launch in May ’14.</span></div>
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<span class="s1"><b> We have a lot to look forward to</b>. I am most looking forward to how DFC USA is going to grow and how the “I CAN” bug will continue to catch on here! We can already feel it, change is in the air and our students are going to lead that change across the country, and in the world!</span></div>
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<span class="s1"><b><i>Sanjli Gidwaney - Co-Director, DFC USA</i></b><i><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;">
Sanjli recently graduated from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, with a focus on curriculum design and non-profit management. As Co-Director of Design for Change USA, she manages a national team of designers, educators and technologists. Under her leadership, DFC has forged partnerships with notable organizations such as Teach for America, Strong Women Strong Girls, Ashoka, Harvard’s Good Work Team and Stanford Design School. Sanjli has also collaborated with research groups at MIT’s Media Lab, industrial design firms and various NGOs to develop and conduct several hands on creativity workshops for children around the world including India, Kenya and the Dominican Republic. She believes in a pedagogy embedded in experiential learning and cross-curricular approaches.</span></i></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03579843022835637318noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6874227235858850693.post-54201402141229553922014-03-27T02:46:00.000-07:002014-03-27T02:46:32.317-07:00Teacher’s Voices: Dallas, USA<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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“I was really excited about the opportunity, but I didn’t fall in love with it until we started working on it and sitting down with the curriculum and imagining with my kids” says Nicole Ramos, one of the people who is working with Design for Change in Dallas, USA.</div>
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“We were introduced to DFC by our professor, and he connected us to Alfonso Romo (DFC Mexico partner). We met him and we were so inspired about what he’d been doing in Mexico and how it started in India, and from there we said we have to find everything we can about this organization.” Inspired by the successes of Design for Change across the world, Nicole and her friends brought DFC to Dallas, Texas.</div>
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The 4 member team in Dallas is helping schools implement DFC. They are currently working with 4 schools and 12 teams, with students ranging from 2<span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">nd</span> to 8<span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">th</span> grade. Alan, a team member, says “luck had a lot to do with getting schools. Two said yes immediately, but the other 2 were hesitant.”</div>
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“One of the big challenges was getting students to trust us,” says Bethany, the third team member. “Another was trying to coordinate with teachers and explain to them what we are trying to do.” “Challenges are based on the kids themselves and how they receive what we try to give them,” Alan adds. “Discipline can be a problem. Not for the groups that come in once a week - they see us as these fun groups coming in. But the groups we see 3-4 times a week can be really challenging.”</div>
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But their efforts seem to have paid off. When talking about the impact they have seen on the students, Bethany says “we’ve told them from the beginning – these are projects you guys are going to do, you’re going to complete them! But as we were picking projects with them, almost in every single class we would have a kid raise their hand and say ‘wait, we’re really going to do this? We weren’t just imagining?’ And we say, yes you guys are going to do this! And then they all get excited and can’t believe it because they don’t realize that they can do this. And so watching that mind shift is really just beginning to happen with them and it’s a really big thing.” Nicole also observed a shift. “I was really frustrated the week before because I felt like some of the kids just weren’t getting it. When I heard them go all the way back, I realized that all of that stuff, they got it, they got everything I wanted them to get, and they were applying it now. They made those connections and they’re making them now as they look at their communities…that was one of those, ‘I want to do this for the rest of my life’ moments.”</div>
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We can’t wait to see the great projects the kids from Dallas come up with! Best of luck, DFC Dallas Team!</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03579843022835637318noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6874227235858850693.post-58567161553201860202014-03-27T02:45:00.002-07:002014-03-27T02:46:32.320-07:00Teacher’s Voices<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Over the past 5 years of our existence, Design for Change has seen some excellent stories of change. Problems as diverse as waste management to a long walk to school, with impacts from one person to entire communities, have been realized by kids from 6 to 18 years old.</div>
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We are now launching this series to commemorate and recognize the invaluable contributions of the progressive, passionate and idealistic individuals behind the scenes who kick-start the efforts, and provide a helping hand throughout: teachers. We would like to give a big cheer to the teachers and facilitators who work tirelessly to allow the children to realize their potential and, in the Gandhian spirit, be the change!</div>
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Their stories…</div>
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