Addis Birhan & Intercept Poverty Problem Solve

Addis Birhan Programme, Educates Youth at Risk about HIV/AIDS prevention and gives Life Skills. Intercept Poverty.org partners with Addis Birhan to gain financial support to expand the program.

This program problem solves and intercepts the trajectroy of life and death situations through youth education. It trains local African nationals, to teach others who teach others and so on. www.interceptpoverty.org

We are inspired at this Problem Solving Initiative on the ground in Addis Ababa, the brain child of our parnter, Connie Dandy, an Australian woman whose been living in Addis Ababa for 20 years.

Problem Solving Tips - Article by Tanya Lacy

Problem Solving Article Solutions Thinking Savvy: Ideas + Strategies to produce problem-solving people.

This article is chock full of tips appears in Business Franchise Magazine January/February edition - Business Solutions Section.
Written by Tanya Lacy, Resource Speaker, Founder Intercept.

One of the keys from the article is thinking in the gaps.

Having a look at what's missing and getting there by asking questions untill all roads lead to understanding what's missing. This gives you the clues on how to fill it and what the solutions need to be. Sounds simple, but common sense isn't always common.

Problem Solving Quotations

Henry Ford
There are no big problems, there are just a lot of little problems.
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Theodore Rubin
The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem.
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Albert Einstein
It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.
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Billy Graham
Hot heads and cold hearts never solved anything.
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Denis Waitley
Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.
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Unknown Author
Worry is like a rocking chair - it gives you something to do but won't get you anywhere.
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John Dewey
A problem well stated is a problem half solved.
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Norman Vincent Peale
How you think about a problem is more important than the problem itself - so always think positively.
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Norman Vincent Peale
Problems are to the mind what exercise is to the muscles, they toughen and make strong.
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Norman Vincent Peale
Believe it is possible to solve your problem. Tremendous things happen to the

Bill Gates - "Any tough problem can be solved"...

This is taken from a piece in the Telegraph UK. It is from Bill Gates commenting at a conference for Technology, Entertainment and Design Conference. Also known as TED. At this conference he released a swarm of mosquitoes into the audience.

"Malaria is spread by mosquitoes, "he yelled to the crowd before unleashing the insects, which were not carrying the disease. "I brought some. Here I'll let them roam around. There is no reason only poor people shoule be infected."

The organisers of the TED Conference said it was an "amazing moment" and provided the audience with "food for thought".

Gates said that more money was being spent finding a cure for baldness than developing drugs to combat malaria. "Now, baldness is a terrible thinkg and rich men are fflicted,"he joked. "That is why that priority has been set.

"The market does not drive scientists, thinkers, or governments to do the right things. Only by paying attention and making people care can we make as much progress as we need to".

He called for greater distribution of insect nets and other protective gear, as revealed that an anti-maleria vaccine funded by his foundation and currently in development would enter a more advanced testing phase in coming months.

"I am an optimist; I think any tough problem can be solved," he said

www.problem-solving-people.blogspot.com

If you go to www.problem-solving-people.com it should lead you here!

Problem Solving People - Lyrics

Problem Solving People*

(P) © 2008. T. Lacy [APRA] / R.Plant [BMI]
/ S.Rich [Pandora Mink Music/Sesac/APRA/admin. By Bug]

Ramsay - Hey! I want to solve this problem
Can you help me find a solution?
And be my souluution friend?
Adam - Sure my friend, tell me how we can share our brains?
Together - What can we do?
Yeah let’s do it!

Problem solving people, holding hands to make a chain
Problem solving people, holding hands to make a change

Together –
I want to start a human chain, a problem solving crew
Hey problem solving people, all ‘round the world
you know what to do!

Problem solving people, holding hands to make a chain
Problem solving people, holding hands to make a change
There really is enough on earth for everyone you see
The world is like a chocolate cake let’s spread the icing even-ly

Problem solving people, holding hands to make a chain

Together - Come on problem solving people
Put that brain to work
We can build a human chain
To help save mother earth

From Africa to Australia
and round and back again
Take my hand, make a plan
jump on the solution train!

Problem solving people, holding hands to make a chain
Problem solving people, holding hands to make a change
There really is enough on earth for everyone you see
The world is like a chocolate cake let’s spread the icing even-ly

Problem Solving People - Finding a solution
Problem Solving People –Ohh! Let’s start a revolution

Problem solving people, holding hands to make a chain
Problem solving people, holding hands to make a change

There really is enough on earth for all of us you see
The world is like a chocolate cake let’s spread the icing even-ly

Problem solving people, livin’ next door to you and me
We can be solutions friends, it’s not so hard you see
Problem solving kids, leaving a special legacy

Adam - Come on Problem Solving People
Put that brain to work
Ramsay - What can we do?
Can you help me find a solution
Together - Let’s do it!

*Childrens Version. There is a different version for adults as well
~Inspired by those who are enslaved by poverty in the world.
Designed to stimulate high impact problem solving for the good of the world in us all~

With very special thanks to Williamstown Primary School and the Families in the Williamstown Community!~Performed by The Mudcakes, with Tanya Lacy , Adam Lacy & Ramsay Plant

Tanya Lacy's Blog www.tanyalacy.blogspot.com

Check this out when you have a moment. Tanya's blog is designed to provoke thought leadership relating to social impact business and business models that are postive and high impact in the world.