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Change the World

Unlike Bill Gates, most of us don’t have a billion bucks to fight the challenges facing our world. For ordinary folks who want to make a difference, it’s a matter of being creative with our limited means.
 
We hope this “$100 to save the world” contest will spur you to imagine the impossible: Catalyse positive change with a tiny spark.
 
How it works
• Entrants are to come up with ideas to change the world using just $100.
• Their proposals will have to state a plan of action.
• 3 winners will be chosen based on the creativity and feasibility of their proposals.
• Winners will each be awarded S$100, which MUST be used to enact their proposals.
• They will maintain a journal of their efforts over a 6-month period, through text posts, pictures or videos on a blog, set up on their behalf by nuabs.
• At the end of the 6 months, the one deemed most successful will receive an extra S$100 for his/her cause.
• All entries must be sent via email to change@nuabs.com by 28 February 2009.
• Results will be announced on 15 April 2009; winners will be notified via email.

Prizes
3 winners, each receiving a pair of nuabs sandals + S$100 to kickstart their plan to change the world.

  
     





Today, about 180,000 people around the world will leave the countryside and move to a city. Humans are becoming urban creatures at an accelerating speed. The United Nations calculates that London's population took 130 years to grow from 1m to 8m. Bangkok, Thailand took 45 years. Dhaka, Bangladesh 37. And Seoul, South Korea just 25. In much of Asia, rice is the essence of survival. Poor people in both cities and rural areas spend 1/2 to 3/4 of their incomes on rice - and only rice. Millions of resource-poor farmers eke a living on small parcels of land in remote, mountainous or arid regions. Yet it is estimated they produce as much as 20% of the world's food - largely without the benefit of modern agriculture. Majority of the world's resource-poor farmers are women. They produce more than 1/2 of the food grown around the world. In some regions, as much as 80%. If a girl gets at least 6 years of education, her childbirth survival rate in adulthood will dramatically and consistently improve. The world's poor actually own trillions of dollars' worth of assets. But their houses, plots of land and businesses lacked formal title - and so can't be used to do all the things that people in wealthy countries do to turn a little money into a lot of money. Establishing property rights is a necessary first step.
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