# G’Day World #318 - Bill Liao
# G’Day World #317 - Jeremy Toeman, Geeks Doing Good
# G’DAY WORLD #311 - Geeks Who Care, inaugural meeting
# G’DAY WORLD #304 - Social Activism update
# G’DAY WORLD #297 - The Need For Leadership

This week, after an introductory chat with Scott about Kenya and the challenges in Africa, Cameron chats with Lalita Ari, co-founder of Oasis Africa. During a visit to Kibera (Kenya) in June 2005, Lalita’s friend Kim Winter discovered a community of 100 orphans learning in a dark, small sewage-ridden, unsafe iron shed. After seeing the need first hand, Kim and Lalita decided to start ‘Oasis Africa - The Kibera School for orphans Project’ to raise awareness and funds to help create a better future for these children by providing food, education, shelter, safety, health services and essential trauma counselling they require to make a difference.

We think Lalita and Kim deserve a heap of attention for taking action and demonstrating what one or two regular people can do to make a better world if they just make a decision to have a go. I’m sure you will all get inspiration from listening to Lalita’s story.

You can support Oasis Africa’s work by buying a copy of Lalita’s CD (profits of this CD will go to the care and running of a school) and you can directly support Oasis Africa with financial contributions by going to their site.

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Our theme music for this episode is:

“Shag Carpet” (mp3)
from “Downright Upright”
by Brian Bromberg
(Artistry Music Group, LLC)
More On This Album

The inspiration for the show is R. Buckminster Fuller’s lifelong experiment to discover what one person what do to improve humanity’s condition that large organizations, governments, or private enterprises inherently could not do.

In this first episode, Scott and Cameron discuss their individual motivations for wanting to make the world a better place.

Links:

Our theme music for this episode is:

“Shag Carpet” (mp3)
from “Downright Upright”
by Brian Bromberg
(Artistry Music Group, LLC)
More On This Album

You’re so busy. All day long, you work a full time job. Maybe a half-time one, too. You have kids, or other family, or friends you need to be with, or take care of. There are household errands to complete, the car needs servicing, the computer goes on the fritz. There’s laundry and doctor appointments, a dog to walk and bills to pay. What about that movie you want to see or the book you’ve been meaning to read? Then there’s that hobby keep meaning to get to: You want to write, or take pictures, paint or play guitar.

Maybe you do some of those things. Maybe you do them all. But no matter how much you work, how fast you run, there’s never enough time. There’s so much to do.

But as you dash through your days and labor and love and struggle and thrive with every important and trivial thing that occupies your time, there’s a noise in the background telling you that everything isn’t quite right.

There are troubles out there. Maybe they don’t affect you right now, maybe they seem like someone else’s problems, but they seep into your consciousness nonetheless. They’re things you hear about on the news or see on the web.

Global warming. A crisis in someplace called Darfur. Abuse of animals. AIDS in Africa. Human rights violations, genocides, poverty.

They all sound so terrible. So overwhelming. Someone should do something. But who?

How about you?

The Better World Show is about what you can do to make the world a, well, better place. A kinder, fairer, safer and healthier planet on which all of us can live.

Every week (or so) we’ll give you just enough information to get the broad strokes of what’s going on out there. We’ll have interviews with experts who understand these issues and who can explain them in ways that will move, enlighten and empower you.

We’ll also give you information on what you can do to make a difference. You don’t have to quit your job, leave your family and join the Peace Corps to be part of the solution. There are little things you can do, change or give that will help make a big difference.

It’s a tough world out there. Join us on our journey to make it a better one.

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