Geography make up quiz

Joy Prior
Otterstrom
Geography 120
Make up quiz
March 16, 2011 @3:00 to Jeffry Swindle on Sociology Functional Evaluation: a case study of choice humanitarians (Mexico)
Jeffery Swindle was apart of a program that tried to train the local people in rural villages on how to become independent financially. The first area was in Santiago and he was training one of the local men to travel around the village, record, and submit the cities progress to the company in the United States. The evaluations would come every 6 months, and as of lately the project seems to be a success. His second location was two towns in Mexico. The goal was to bring the entire community out of poverty by establishing goat cheese companies in the community. The entire village would work together to produce and sale goat cheese.
The two areas in Mexico were very interesting to me, because I realized that movement is a vital part of geography. Although both of the cities were in remote locations the one village was able to find a Holliday inn that they could sale their goat cheese to, because the village had movement out of their village they saw a more stable increase of their profit. On the other hand the second village did not organize their production, and tried to sale their goat cheese at local venders. Although both of the towns were able to produce goat cheese the first was village began to see a profit in large because their movement of goods and services was more expanded than the other village.
Another interesting point that the presentor made was that the villagers realized there is a value to having a certificate. He mentioned how the organization he was working with took who ever was interested into the large city for training. When the trained citizens came back to the village these were the people who the organization worked directly with. Jeffery Swindle noted that it was an entire alteration to the perspectives of the people as they encouraged their children to finish High School simply to have the certificate of completion.