October 2017 – Student Portfolio

The Island Foundation

Alua Telemtayeva Global Perspetives October 4, 2017 0 Comment

What are the most significant challenges facing the Orang Suku Laut?

How are The Island Foundation programmes addressing these challenges?

Main challenges that Orang Suku Laut have to face are: lack of access to clean water, poor diet, and limited access to good medical expertise. In order to teach their students preventative health education, The Island Foundation started the organic farm where they constantly experiment with growing different vegetables and plants, introducing organic food to the people of Orang Suku Laut. Now, their students are able to identify organic and inorganic food. As for health care, the programme provides students with football classes, keeping the people active and showing them what team spirit is.

Which programme interests you most and why?

The programme that interests me the most would be craft entrepreneurship. I would love to help people of Orang Suku Laut understand how to start entrepreneurship from simply being crafty and creative. This is the area where I could help people learn about business and of how to start it effectively.

Gapminder: relationships between indicators and their effect on countries’ development

Alua Telemtayeva Humanities October 3, 2017October 3, 2017 1 Comment

As you can see in the graph above, income per person and life expectancy have a positive correlation between each other. As the income per person grows, life expectancy increases as well. This is because with more money, people tend to have a higher chance of survival. For example, money buys us food, shelter, and other necessities that are required for survival.

This relationship between the two indicators, life expectancy and mortality rate, is straightforward and very simple to understand. With less baby deaths, life expectancy increases. With a higher life expectancy, the mortality rate falls. In simple words, one causes the other.

In this situation, my indicators do not really correspond to one another. CO2 emissions of a country is not being affected by the population of a country. By the graph, you can notice that countries with the highest poppulations are not necessarily the ones with the highest CO2 emission rates, and that works the other way round as well.

I think that one of the main strategies that might help the countries in their development is education. With good quality education, people have a higher chance of being qualified for well-paid jobs, therefore bringing money and profit to their countries. This will definitely boost up the development of the countries that are lagging behind.