Hun Questions for Langa

TREATMENT -

1. Where do you go if you are sick and what sort of treatment do you get there?  Do you feel the treatment is effective?  Are the conditions of the medical care/treatment acceptable (clean & sterile)?  How accessible are these places/people?  How affordable are they?

HEALERS -

2. Are healers a part of the culture in Langa?  If so, do you feel social/cultural pressure to  go to these rather than seeking other medical attention?

GENDER/AGE -

3. How is life different for men, women and children on a day-to-day basis?  Do any  activities specific to one or another increase their chances of contracting these diseases?

RESOURCES

4. Are there any issues with accessibility to basic resources other than medical care(food, clean water, clothing)?  If so, what is it the reason and what could be done to improve it?

COMMUNITY EFFECTS

5. What effect do you think HIV and other illnesses have on your community, both physically and psychologically?
6. What  is the biggest issue in your community other disease?

What do you feel would help your community as a whole?

Photo Requests:  any sort of healthcare facility/healer, the people with whom you speak, houses, schools, sewer systems, water supply, community gathering places

Problem Solving

In order to prime ourselves in terms of solving problems in a creative fashion we watched a couple of informative videos.  The first was regarding solving issues in the face of disagreement:

The next was an interesting look at some of the issues faced by people trying to solve the problem of global infectious disease:

After that we looked at a method of problem solving called design thinking:

Most recently we did a project called the "Marshmallow Challenge" which helped try to put design thinking into practice:

Although some of these videos don't have an exact correlation to global infectious disease we think it is important to step back and look at the process and some issues we may run into before we can get to the specific solution.

Article: Why The Tide Turned in The Fight Against AIDS: Melinda Gates

Why The Tide Turned in The Fight Against AIDS

Guidelines

NAIS's Challenge 20/20 program is based on Jean Francois Rischard’s book High Noon: 20 Global Problems, 20 Years to Solve Them. In the book, he articulates 20 global problems from which your team(s) will choose a global problem to work on identifying and proposing local solutions.

The following are steps each school should use as guidelines in getting you started and preparing your final submission:

• Proceed by contacting your partner school/s.
• Fill out the Agreement for Participation and return it to NAIS by September 30, 2013 for Term One and by January 27, 2014 for Term Two and/or after making initial contact with your partner school/s. Please download the Agreement from the Program Details page.
• Identify the participants in each school, trying for compatibility in terms of grade levels and global problem preference.
• Have each participant (students and assigned faculty) read Rischard’s book and go into a chat room mode or some other kind of teleconferencing for discussion of the 20 problems.
• Choose one of the global problems in full collaboration of all schools/classes within your partnership.
  The points at which collaboration must occur and be documented:
  

  • Sharing perspectives
  • Defining and clarifying the issue
  • Identifying interests
  • Generating ideas
  • Developing criteria for deciding on a plan
  • Evaluating options
  • Developing plan
  • Sharing implementation strategies
    
• Do further research on the chosen topic. Look for inconsistencies or categorical statements made by different theorists and scientists.
• Develop a proposal which identifies the problem, both perceived and real and which includes those things which might prove to be challenges. This must be a clearly defined research purpose or question that resonates well with both teams, that is feasible in terms of resources, and defines a local problem which is a good fit with the global concern.
• Produce as many ideas as possible over a period of several days, keeping the lines of communication open so that there is an incubation period.
• Generate and select criteria to evaluate solution ideas.
• Weigh the action ideas, using criteria to analyze and evaluate the most promising idea.
• Create your plan of action which should be based on combining and elaborating on the higher rated ideas. For a pilot project, we understand that solutions can't be implemented but there must be an implemental plan and evidence must be given by both schools that this will be continued beyond the submission date.
• Read any updates or new information submitted by NAIS through the Challenge 20/20 listserve/community.
• Create a website in collaboration with your partner school to present your solutions. In addition to a website, schools can choose to create supporting materials and programs such as PowerPoint presentations, posters, plays, scripts, journal entries, photographs, etc.
• Begin using the Challenge 20/20 Portal to create an account for your school, your Challenge 20/20 classroom and the collaboration space where you can invite your partner school/s to join so that you can share research, photographs, journals, links, resources, etc. Click here for more information and to download the Users' Guide.
• Submit the online report. (See tips in the Submit Your Report section) on your progress. The report must be submitted by the U.S. independent school faculty or by the primary team contact. There will be a paper version on the website that you can download and use to coordinate your answers with everyone in your team.
  
  Term One participants must submit their report by February 3, 2014.*
  Term Two participants must submit their report by May 9, 2014.*If Term One schools are having a great experience and wish to continue their work into Term Two, they may contact Ioana Suciu Wheeler at wheeler@nais.org about submitting their report by the Term Two deadline.

Send any photographs, reports, PowerPoint presentations, and other supplemental materials to NAIS by the report deadline. Read more about submitting these materials.