March 31, 2011
Wheel Wisher seeks to understand 3 key topics facing our world.
Wheel Wishers is trying to understand 3 key topics: Impact of Corporate Social Responsibility on Community Based Organizations (www.csrtoday.org), Community Based Organizations (www.community-based.org) and Impact on disability on children in developing countries (www.childisabled.org)
The reasons why we are focusing these topics are:
The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that 650 million people globally live with disabilities, many of them children. We will investigate historical facts and trends as well as current events and activities which shape and define the lives of disabled children in developing countries. We will interview people in the field as well as active players in various countries. Our hope is to understand the challenges and opportunities of children with disabilities around the world.
Community Based Organizations or CBOs are defined in Wikipedia as civil society non-profits that operate within a single local community. They are essentially a subset of the wider group of nonprofits. Like other nonprofits they are often run on a voluntary basis and are self funded. Within community organizations there are many variations in terms of size and organizational structure. Some are formally incorporated, with a written constitution and a board of directors (also known as a committee), while others are much smaller and are more informal. On this web platform, we seek to understand how CBOs function in developing countries and its impact on their communities. We will investigate historical facts and trends as well as current events and activities which shapes and defines the CBO space. We will interview people in the field as well as active players involved with CBOs. Our hope is to identify and understand its great potential as well as its faults.
Corporate Social Responsibility or CSR in short is defined in Wikipedia as a form of corporate self-regulation integrated into a business model. On this web platform, we seek to understand how CSR policy functions within an organization in theory and practice and its impact in the world. We will investigate historical facts and trends as well as current events and activities which shape and define the CSR space. We will interview people in the field as well as active players in CSR. Our hope is to identify and understand its great potential as well as its faults.
May 29, 2010
Wheel Wishers Documents the Hopes and Dreams of Refugees.
Imagine fleeing your own country because of the endless war and violence. The violence perpetuated by your own neighbors or even your own government whose job is supposed to protect you. Imagine running away from your home with just few clothes on your back. Imagine looking back at faces of your family and friends who you would never see again. Soon after you find yourself in a sprawling refugee camp in a foreign country. Their populations are often hostile to you because they see you as a drain on their own country’s resources. And you spend next decade or two in this country.
Wasted time. Wasted life.
And if you are incredibly lucky, you may have an opportunity to be resettled to a new country far away. Life in your future country will be difficult. Your past education and achievements do not count anymore. You must start from the scratch. You must say good-bye to the friends you have made.
But after decades of suspended life, you may start living again.
And during those few moments before you embark on your flight, which will take you away from this living nightmare, your head fills with countless thoughts and your heart is torn by countless different emotions.
Such story is a reality for thousands of people everyday.
Wheel Wishers is creating short documentaries of such stories in support of UNHCR and IOM. Short documentaries are based on the interviews with the refugee at the few moments before the departure.
April 13, 2010
Driving Toyota Landcruiser around the World!... Breaks optional.
 Toyota has been getting some bad press lately. And from the sound of it, they certainly deserve some of them. But when you are driving around the world, covering tens of thousands of miles across the frozen steppe of Central Asia to the sandy sand dunes of the Gobi desert and Sahara, breaks are optional.
If you have ever lived in a country where the roads are covered with foot deep potholes every two meters, you know there is only one vehicle that can reliably take you to safety, Toyota Landcruiser.
Drive around the world, Save the world
Wheel Wishers Non Profit Organization is planning a major field visit of Community Based Organizations (CBOs) in countries along the way while driving from South Korea or Japan to South Africa next year. We plan to reach these CBOs by driving the entire route (except for the ferry ride from South Korea/Japan to China). And we cannot think of any other vehicle to bring us to safety other than a modified Toyota Landcruiser, 70 series, or also known as Troop Carrier.
Now I am certainly not sponsored by Toyota, but I am going to make a very blunt statement that I would like to be.
Imagine, HD documentaries of the most beautiful, exotic and harsh locations around the world. Documentaries featuring important local works done by people and for people to improve people’s lives, save the environment and the animal kingdom. And reaching these amazing locations with ________ (fill in your vehicle here) vehicle around the world. This vehicle will be equipped with solar panels to power tera-bites of computing power to create documentaries on the road. Plus bio-diesel? Possibilities are borderless.
This will not only help to save people, the environment and the animal queendom, but also demonstrate the superior engineering of your vehicle (of course as long as it does not break down too much, but then again, that can be edited out before broadcasting).
So if you are or you know of individuals in the CSR or Public relation department of THE Toyota car company, or any other car company for that matter, do contact us. :) Help us to Save the World.
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