节目资讯
刊物:空中英语教室
日期:2012-08-13
难易度:Low
关键字:justice, mission, prompt, nonprofit, volunteer, human trafficking,
HIV-positive, cooperative [co-op]
Welcome back, everybody.
Maybe you've heard the old proverb: Give a man a fish and you feed him for a
day.
Teach a man to fish and you feed him for life.
Well, the Trade Justice Mission is an organization that is using the "teach a
man a fish" principle to help women escape the trap of poverty.
Let's return to our reading now and find out how it works on line 13.
(Music).
The Trade Justice Mission.
Returning from Zambia, Eric started the Trade Justice Mission (TJM), a
nonprofit, Christian organization.
The organization helps women by training them to make and sell jewelry through
cooperatives (co-ops).
TJM now has co-ops in Zambia, Tanzania, Indonesia, Cambodia and the Philippines.
How does it work?
Susan designs most of the jewelry.
TJM buys and sends the needed materials to the co-ops.
Women work in small groups and create the beautiful pieces.
The jewelry is then sold by volunteers in the U.S. under the Okoa Jewelry line.
All right, friends.
Eric Rosenberg and his wife they were inspired to help these victims - women
that they saw that were in need and being sold as sex slaves.
That's right.
Eric and Susan had lived in the Philippines.
And Eric had also worked in Zambia.
Then returning from Zambia, so once he got back to United States, Eric started
the Trade Justice Mission TJM, a nonprofit, Christian organization.
OK. So this is when the organization got its start.
And here we see it is a nonprofit organization.
Now the word "nonprofit" simply talks about an organization that is not getting
a "profit" - and that means extra money that you are earning.
So all the money that the organization gets, they give back to the people in
need.
That's right.
His organization is not working to make a lot of money but to give back a lot of
money.
You know, Kaylah, another word we might use for a nonprofit is a charity.
Many organizations like this are called charities.
That's right.
Now his is a Christian organization as well.
Well, the organization helps women by training them to make and sell jewelry
through cooperatives, also known as co-ops.
OK. So here the word "cooperatives" is talking about an organization that is
owned or run by groups of people,
by many different people that are using that organization.
That's right.
We know the word to "cooperate" means to get along with and work together.
So a "cooperative, or a co-op," is when a group of people work together towards
the same goal.
OK. So these women instead of "being on the streets," as you might say, instead
of being... being a victim to human trafficking,
then they are now working to make these jewelry items that are then sold through
cooperatives.
Now TJM now has co-ops in Zambia, Tanzania, Indonesia, Cambodia and the
Philippines, all areas where women are definitely in need.
Yeah, these are areas where human trafficking happens quite often.
So how does this all work, Kaylah?
How does this actually help those women?
Well, Susan, Eric's wife, Susan Rosenberg, first designs most of the jewelry.
OK. So here she designs the jewelry.
She makes the concept for what it looks like.
And then TJM buys and sends the needed materials to make that jewelry to the
co-ops.
OK. So the... she designs them; they create a book telling them how to use it.
Then they buy all the materials, all the things needed and sends it to these
co-ops all over the world.
OK. So these women then in those co-ops work in small groups, and they create
the beautiful pieces of jewelry.
And you can see pictures in your magazines of some of these women working
together building and creating these jewelry pieces.
OK. So this is great, they are working.
That means they're not on the streets.
And Kaylah, we see later that all this work pays off.
They get paid for this jewelry they make because the jewelry is sold by
volunteers in the U.S. under the Okoa Jewelry line.
Now "volunteers" are people who do something without getting paid or getting
rewarded for it.
They are doing it because they want to help, and they're not expecting to be
paid.
So the money then doesn't have to go to paying someone, instead a volunteer does
it.
And you can buy this jewelry through the Okoa Jewelry line.
That's right.
You can go and buy some of this jewelry.
And the money that you spend will not go to these volunteers; it will go
straight back to these women who are working hard to make that jewelry.
And it is beautiful jewelry.
You can see some pictures of it on page 30 in your Studio Classroom magazine.
Now Ryan, we have a special video today talking about the Trade Justice Mission.
That's right.
We got to interview Eric Rosenberg.
And so let's take a look at what he has to say now.
(Music).
Trade Justice Mission exists to bring economic empowerment to the least and the
lost.
To those that are landless, assetless women with really no other way out of
poverty.
Which you have to understand is that in the developing world,
where the wage is a dollar or two a day, you can work 16 hours a day and never
have an opportunity to escape poverty.
(Music).
Trade Justice Mission began in 2008 after my wife and I and my family came back
from the Philippines.
We had moved to the Philippines to work, to stop the sex-trafficking of
children.
I was involved as an attorney; I went to work with an organization that worked
to help stop sex-trafficking.
And while in the Philippines, I would meet with the mayors and the governor and
other stakeholders, and they all basically told me the same thing.
That if you do not find an economic alternative for people who are hungry, they
would do what they have to do to eat.
(Music).
One of the things we do is we create okoa co-ops,
and these okoa co-ops are jewelry cooperatives that exist in Asia, Africa and
here in Ohio.
What we do is we partner with a Christian missionary group who is already in the
country.
This group is already working with endangered marginalized women.
So what we do is we put together a group of at least 5 women and they have to be
landless, assetless women who are marginalized for the same type of condition.
So that could be human trafficking, prostitution, it could be the fact that they
are single mothers, HIV widows, things like that.
So the women come together into this group, and then we come in and we teach
them how to make the jewelry that you would see at an okoan event.
The jewelry is largely designed by my wife.
Trade Justice Mission micro-finances all the investment costs to create the
jewelry,
we teach the women how to make the jewelry, and then we sell the jewelry, and
with the profits going back to the women who make the jewelry.
We're all-volunteer organization, so that's why we're able to do that.
(Chinese).
And we're running out of time again.
I'll see you tomorrow.
Bye-bye.
Thank you again, Michelle.
We appreciate that.
By the way, everybody, okoa, the name of the jewelry website, is an East African
word that means restoration,
a word that I think perfectly sums up the Trade Justice Mission's mission - to
restore value, restore hope,
restore confidence and dignity in women who have lost all these things because
of poverty, disease and human trafficking.
OK, friends. Please join us again tomorrow for more about TJM, the organization
that's providing hope, making a difference using jewelry.
I hope all of you have a great day.