Families
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We were asked to accommodate 100
families
that had been occupying illegally half a hectare in the center of the city of Iquique in the north of Chile using a $10,000 subsidy with which we had to buy the land, provide the infrastructure, and build the houses that, in the best of the cases, would be of around 40 square meters.
Due to the difficulty of the question, we decided to include the
families
in the process of understanding the constraints, and we started a participatory design process, and testing what was available there in the market.
Detached houses, 30
families
could be accommodated.
Row houses, 60
families.
["100
families"
] The only way to accommodate all of them was by building in height, and they threatened us to go on a hunger strike if we even dared to offer this as a solution, because they could not make the tiny apartments expand.
So the conclusion with the
families
— and this is important, not our conclusion — with the families, was that we had a problem.
And we thought we had to do with public money the half that
families
won't be able to do individually.
We identified five design conditions that belonged to the hard half of a house, and we went back to the
families
to do two things: join forces and split tasks.
If, in the process of not being expelled to the periphery while getting a house,
families
kept their network and their jobs, we knew that the expansion would begin right away.
So we went from this initial social housing to a middle-class unit achieved by
families
themselves within a couple of weeks.
Different designs, same principle: You provide the frame, and from then on,
families
take over.
It is actually — (Applause) It is actually not even with the
families
trying to find the right answer.
And the ALS patients, you know what their favorite ones are, and their
families'
?
Together, we analyzed the West Bank and picked 100
families
that are living in the most risky places: close to checkpoints, near army bases, side by side with settlers.
Every medication that we prescribe or that we've taken ourselves or we've given to our
families
has first been tested on an animal.
Did the people who ate that mastodon meat owe something to the hunters and their
families?
You know, I remember having a Muslim group from the U.K. going to the house of an Orthodox Jewish family, and having their first Friday night dinners, that Sabbath dinner, and eating together hamin, which is a Jewish food, a stew, just having the connection of realizing, after a while, that a hundred years ago, their
families
came out of the same place in Northern Africa.
Now the families, they want information.
We'll take that DNA and then we'll compare it with the DNA of the families, of course.
The only thing we needed now was the DNA of those four
families
So we went and we looked for them and we found them.
And we identified those six bodies and gave them back to the
families.
People that 533
families
are looking for.
Research done at the University of Pennsylvania found that white families, on average, have access to more help and more support from the child welfare system.
Research done at the University of Minnesota found that kids who went through foster care had more behavioral problems and internalized issues than kids who remain with their
families
while receiving help and support.
Let's imagine a child welfare system that focuses on partnering with parents, empowering families, and no longer see poverty as failure.
Let's work together to build a system that wants to make
families
stronger instead of pulling them apart.
We call it Honest Chops, and we're reclaiming halal by sourcing organic, humanely raised animals, and by making it accessible and affordable to working-class
families.
At that time, MSF and the treatment center there, they were seeing dozens of patients every single day, and these patients, these communities were becoming more and more terrified as time went by, with this disease and what it was doing to their families, to their communities, to their children, to their relatives.
He heard the heartbreaking stories about not just the damage that Ebola did to people, but what it did to
families
and what it did to communities.
The situation is heartbreaking for patients, for their
families
and for the doctors who want to do more.
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