节目资讯
刊物:空中英语教室
日期:2012-08-14
难易度:Low
关键字:profit, poverty, escape, take care of, red-light district, orphanage
Hi, everybody.
Welcome to Studio Classroom Worldwide.
My name is Steve.
You know, I think people are basically the same wherever you go in the world.
We all want to live in a safe environment.
We all want our children to go to school and to grow up to be big and strong.
We all want to feel that we have value.
And we all want to eat.
Unfortunately, for billions of people in the world, these desires and dreams are
crushed under the heavy weight of poverty.
And that's where the Trade Justice Mission, or TJM, comes in.
Its goal is to empower women to break the chains of poverty through making
jewelry.
Let's learn about how the TJM works on page 31.
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The Trade Justice Mission.
One hundred percent of the profits are returned to the women.
They keep half of the money, allowing each woman to make around US$50 a day.
The rest is kept in the co-ops, and each one uses its money in different ways.
Some groups have bought chickens and pigs, and some have peanut butter
businesses.
Most people in these countries earn US$1 a day.
The money from TJM provides the women with a way out of poverty.
Hello, friends.
Thank you so much for joining us right here in the studio.
My name is Kaylah.
My name is Ryan.
And we are back in our ORGANIZATIONS article.
And as you know from yesterday, we're talking about the Trade Justice Mission.
That's right.
Now right before we ended the day yesterday, we took some time to interview Eric
Rosenberg, the founder of the Trade Justice Mission.
He was talking about his idea of starting it and how the company works.
Well, Ryan, we get to continue watching some of that interview right now.
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The women in our co-operatives in last year were making between $50-$70 a day on
the project.
If they could get work in their own countries, most of them would be making
between $1 or 2.
So they can make more in a day than they could make in a month.
So the money that they earn is paid to them both individually and collectively
as a group,
so they have to take that money and re-invest it into some other ways to make
money.
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Many of us give to churches, we give to organizations,
but unless you put in place a structure that allows those people to take care of
themselves, they can never escape poverty.
The people that we work with are not looking for a hand-out; they're looking for
a hand-up.
The people in the co-ops are just like me, they just happen to be born in a
different place.
They have the same goals, they sure have the same desires, they... they're just
as intelligent,
it's got nothing to do with any of that, it's just because they were born there
and I was born here.
It's the difference.
And we at Trade Justice Mission believe that we have to do everything we can to
help lift up people into a sustainable life.
Nobody wants, they don't want to get rich, they just want to eat.
They just want their kids to go to school.
And that's what okao jewelry allows them to do is live safely outside of
exploitation to be able to say no to the pimps,
and no to the brothel owners, to hold your head high and say "I can lead this
lifestyle." And it's... it's liberating.
But beyond just the money that they're making,
what the beautiful thing to watch is that the women seem to experience healing
in making some beautiful jewelry.
When you watch them, you know, they get together at the table and they're making
the jewelry,
and they're putting together something beautiful that they have never been able
to do before in a culture that's often sometimes diminishes women and their
value,
and then they get to try on the jewelry.
It's just... it's transformational to watch a woman from beginning to end,
as she enters the co-op and at the end of the training when she is now
economically empowered,
she's made some money, she's made beautiful art, she's felt valued,
and it happens no matter what part of the world I'm in.
What I've learned was that if you feel that the only thing you have to sell if
your body, and nobody is buying anything else, that's what you sell.
And that has to make God weep.
And it makes me weep to know that somebody could get to a point where they think
that that's all they have to do.
That's the only thing they could ever do.
And we at Trade Justice Mission believe that we need to do whatever we can to
empower people to be able to take care of themselves.
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OK. So now let's get started in our second day of this article.
One hundred percent of the profits are returned to women who make the jewelry.
That's right.
Now Eric does talk about this.
We did see this in the video.
We're going to go through and look at some of the details of how this really
works.
And our first detail is the one hundred percent of the profits, or the money
that is earned, is returned to the women.
OK. Now Kaylah, we're using the phrase "one hundred percent." How much is that
actually talking about here?
All of it.
All the money!
All of it! All of the profits.
And like you said, money.
The "profits" is the amount of money that you make on top of how much you
already spent.
That's right.
That's how much you gain from working.
So the women actually get paid for it.
Then they keep half of the money.
The women get to keep half, allowing each woman to make around US$50 a day.
Ryan, that is a large amount of money, especially considering where these women
live that usually they're only making about $1 a day.
Yeah. That's actually quite a good profit, and especially in this area of of the
world, like you said, Kaylah.
And the rest of this money - we know the women keep half - the rest is kept in
the co-ops, and each one of those co-ops uses its money in different ways.
That's right.
So each woman gets her payment.
And then inside their cooperative, they can then do something else with the
other half.
Now Ryan, the fact that they're getting this much money will allow them to not
only have a better life now but also work their way out of poverty,
to provide more for their children and their families.
Exactly. They can do what we call "investing." That means you spend money to get
more money.
And so here, how do they do that?
Well, the way they are investing their money in the co-ops is some groups have
bought chickens and pigs, and some have a peanut butter business.
So they're doing more business on the side to create more income, to create more
profits.
OK. So they're spending this money on things like chickens and pigs; and those
can be sold for things like eggs and meat.
And also, some of them started a peanut butter business.
Now most people in these countries, as we said, only earn about US$1 a day.
So their families, their husbands, their neighbors are only making US$1; and
they are making US$50!
Right. So these women are doing well.
And Kaylah, since they're starting businesses in that country, they're helping
the economy in that country too, so it will also help other people.
Well, the money from TJM provides the women with a way out of the poverty.
Now when we say "a way out of something," what does that mean?
Well, that means you're providing an escape.
And that word "escape" means that you can get out of something that is
potentially harmful or dangerous.
So you need to find a way out, find an escape from something as bad as poverty.
Now "poverty" means the state of being poor or having a lack of comfort.
Usually if you are living in poverty, you don't have all that you need.
You don't have enough food or water; or your water is dirty.
You live in a very unclean environment; and then you suffer from diseases.
So this is offering them a way to get out of these situations.
Exactly.
So maybe if you're in poverty, that means you probably have enough to survive
maybe, but you definitely don't have enough to be comfortable.
And so this is giving these women a way out of that.
They now have more.
And they can take care of themselves and potentially take care of others too.
Well, we're going to talk about what this does for the women, not just giving
them money but what also it can provide in their lives after we watch today's
skit.
So the Trade Justice Mission is nonprofit.
That's right.
One hundred percent of the profits are returned to the women.
So they keep all the money?
Well, no. Actually, they keep half.
Each woman makes around $50 a day.
What about the rest of the money?
Well, the rest is kept in the co-ops.
It's used in different ways.
Different ways?
Yes. Some money is used to buy chickens (Background Noise) and pigs (Background
Noise).
Chickens and pigs!
Yeah. And some is used for the peanut butter business.
Peanut butter.
Yes. It makes peanut butter better.
Most people in these countries only earn $1 a day.
Only $1?
Yes. But those working with TJM make around $50.
So money from TJM provides women a way out of poverty.
Yes, yes. Some women have worked in the red-light district.
How sad.
But TJM provides them a way to escape their old lives.
TJM brings hope.
Right.
Others come from poor families with more children than they can care for.
Well, what happens to them?
They end up in orphanages.
But the jewelry co-op helps them dream of a better future.
So your jewelry is helping needy women everywhere.
That's right. TJM, we bring jewelry and hope.
Maybe I can help.
Oh!
That is really lovely.
And I really like that. Maybe I can buy that.
Yeah! You can help and buy my jewelry.
Yes. How much?
How much do you sell?