Jan.1 Technology: Carol Brown sent me this article through my blog. It's called "10 Innovative Schools Allowing Smartphones in the Classroom." The article mentioned Edmonton Public schools as #5. It talked about how each school let the students use smartphones and it helped them learn more and get good grades.
http://www.onlinecollege.org/2011/12/11/10-innovative-schools-allowing-smartphones-in-the-classroom/
Post Secret: I read this one. It resonated with me. It has a picture of an African child in the 3rd world country.
"You hate your life while children like this dream of having it."
Jan. 2 Job: Yesterday was busy because it was New Year's Day and today was busy too. I thought people were at work, but they're still having fun by going to the restaurant.
Giving birth: I was watching 20/20 on Dec. 16, 2011. They did a piece called "Giving Life: A Risky Proposition." A girl who gives birth in Afghanistan has a 1 in 10 chance that she will die after giving birth. Far more people die in childbirth than Taliban bombings. There are a lot of child brides because the younger the bride, there is more chance she's a virgin. A lot of people will pay more money if she's younger.
A girl's pelvis is not fully formed to give birth. JHPIEGO is a charity that teaches women to be mid-wives. It went from 1 in 11 women dying after giving birth to 1 in 50. I looked up the website:
http://www.jhpiego.org/
Hemorrhaging is the common cause of of death in childbirth. In Sierra Leone, 1 in 24 women die. The hospitals are dirty because they aren't sterilized. There's an anti-hemorrhaging drug that could help save lives. The drug is called Mioprostal. This old white woman who was in her 60s, she donated enough drugs to save 50,000 women.
A white woman named Erin who's a mom and is also a dr. She goes to Sierra Leone to help the women. She gives basic education and life support skills.
They profiled one woman at the hospital who is bleeding. She couldn't get blood because there was no blood in the blood bank. Her husband tried to buy blood from strangers. Then he found his sister, and she donated blood.
Model Christy Turlington gave birth and began to hemorrhage. She made a film called No Woman, No Pride. The US ranks 50th in the world for Maternal Health. It's because of obesity and diabetes. Some women get prenatal care 2 months in, or not at all.
BRAC USA is a charity that helps women in Bangladesh. 50% of all people in Bangladesh have cellphones. They learn about vitamins through their cellphone. 215 million who want birth control, can't access it. Here's BRAC USA:
http://www.brac.net/content/about-brac-usa?_kk=brac%20USA&_kt=00af63bd-f71d-47ed-ace5-47091ae9ec2e&gclid=CMDQrpDqsq0CFcYbQgodMjbImQ
In Mexico, there is a woman who got a college degree and teaches about contraception. Julio Frenk, the Mexico Minister of Health says that every 20 yrs, the population in Mexico doubles. In the 1970s, the average family had 7.2 children. Now 2.2 children is the average.
Charity: Then 20/20 did a piece about how $1.5 million were donated last year after an ep they did. I wrote about it before on this blog.
Clean water: Scott Harrsion created the non profit Charity: Water to get clean water for 3rd world countries. $40,000 is donated to get clean water in Bangladesh. Here's some info:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Harrison_%28charity_founder%29
Malnutrition: Viewers donated $200,000 of Plumpy Doz that helps fight malnutrition for chidren in 3rd world countries.
http://www.nutriset.fr/en/product-range/produit-par-produit/plumpydoz.html
Viewers also gave $250,000 do fight measles.
They mentioned Embrace, this blanket that warms babies and is used in 3rd world countries. Here's the website:
http://embraceglobal.org/
Abortions in India: This was on 20/20 on Dec. 19, 2011. In India, 50,000 female abortions occur every month. Since the 1980s, 40 million unborn women were aborted. There's an Indian woman president. Women are expensive with a dowry when they get married. Families don't want to pay so their daughter could get married. Dowries are illegal, but it's ignored.
Sex selection abortions are due to ultrasounds. It's not for the poor and uneducated who get abortions. It's the rich and educated. They interviewed Dr. Korana who is an Indian woman pediatrician. She didn't want to do a sex selection ultrasound. So her husband and mother-in-law fed her eggs in a cake, and she had an allergic reaction. They took her to the hospital to get an ultrasound to see if the baby is going to be okay.
She's going to have twin daughters. She refused to abort. Her husband and mother-in-law beat her up. Dr. K ran to her parents and gave birth.
There is "demons in white coats" that are doctors, who does sex selection ultrasound and the dr. tells them about it. It's a sting to give to cops. The doctors are arrested, but the ultrasound machines are taken away. The video was put on Youtube. I like watching undercover sting operations that are put on the internet and TV.
Dr. K then sued her husband about domestic violence. It's hard to find brides in India, so women get trafficked. There's an orphanage in India where baby girls are abandoned. A woman who runs it call Mama. She was an orphan herself. Her real name is Prekashcar won't let the girls be adopted so won't get hurt. The place is called Unique Home.
When the girls are old enough to live on their own, they will move out. They all share the same birthday since they don't have a birth certificate.
The Listener: This show is coming back on CTV in a couple of weeks, so keep an eye out for it. CTV has been playing reruns for the past couple of weeks. A few months ago, I was watching CSI with my little brother. I then recognized the woman.
Me: It's Michelle McCluskey!
Her real name is Lauren Lee Smith. I was going on imdb.com to see her credits, and the thing is, I can't believe it. I have seen her quite a few times, but I didn't recognize her. She played Jerry's girlfriend Erin on the TV show 2gether about that fictional boy band.
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