About SID

Students for International Development is a club for students interested in learning more about poverty alleviation efforts globally and locally. Our club activities include group discussions, guest speakers, panel presentations, film viewing, organization presentations, and on-campus awareness. We see injustice and inequality in the world, people who aren't allowed the dignity and self-respect that are human rights, and we want to be a part of the solutions that empower them in a healthy, sustainable way.

We see international development in a holistic, process-oriented sense. Rather than proposing one single solution to other people’s problems, our club explores approaches which draw on all disciplines and cultures. Consequently, our club welcomes students from all majors on campus, regardless of past experience or future plans in the field of international development. We recognize the universal human need for community building and mutual assistance; we seek to be introspective about our own needs as well as the needs of others in our own community, country, and world.

Our largest club project is planning and executing the Annual Hunger Banquet fund-raiser during the winter semester. Hunger Banquet 2008 is scheduled for Friday, 14 March and Saturday, 15 March. Funds from the banquet are donated to various development organizations working around the world.

SID requires no club dues or fees for membership. Just show up and be a part of our community.

Meetings
Thursdays, 7:30 P.M., 238 HRCB (Kennedy Center conference room). Come get involved!

Contact Information: Send an e-mail to be added to our weekly e-mail listserve containing meeting announcements and other current development-news.

Club Faculty Advisor
Professor Ralph Brown
Department of Sociology

Club Co-Presidents
Mary Baker
Social-Cultural Anthropology
(423) 262-7727

Eric Darsow
Social-Cultural Anthropology & Business Management
(507) 358-9130

James Stewart
Exercise Science
(801) 243-0317

 

Anthropology

Eugene Mendonsa, anthropology

Dave Shuler, anthropology
Teaches IAS 220, Introduction to Development. Majority of experience is in India.

Education

Brad Cook educational leadership and foundations
Don Holsinger, educational leadership and foundations
Vance Randall, educational leadership and foundations

We have created two courses and a master's emphasis related specifically to education and development:

EDLF 362 (International and Comparative Education)
EDLF 363 (International Development Education)
Master's (MEd) emphasis.

Lynn England, sociolgy
Works with Laubach Literacy (including projects in Egypt, India, and Lesotho)

Parker Fawson, teacher education
Reading and Literacy

Environment

Gary Bryner, political science

• served on the committee that formulated the development minor, and serves as an advisor to political science majors interested in the minor.
• advised public policy majors interested in development policy as their substantive area of interest. 
• taught IAS 220 once a year for the past four years.
• taught a course on global environment and development issues with Sam Rushforth since 1990 that included a class expedition to Latin America to work with a local group on development projects; we have done projects in Bolivia, Peru, and Mexico; we have worked with the Andean Children's Foundation in Bolivia, Peru, and Mexico, and with the Tarahumara Foundation and the Catholic mission in Creel, Mexico.
• some writing on development and currently working on a project that applies theories of policy analysis to assessing grassroots development projects.

Sam Rushforth, botany

• Teaches course on global environment and development issues with Gary Bryner.
• Went on expedition to Latin America, including: Peru, Mexico, and Bolivia.

Geography

Chad Emmett, Middle East Studies/Arabic Coordinator
(political and cultural geography)

Health

Lora Beth Brown, food science and nutrition

• worked for four years with Mexican–American families in South Texas
• spent six months in Tonga writing health lessons to be used in the Church schools in the South Pacific
• took undergraduate students to Mexico and Guatemala for basic outreach nutrition, health, homemaking, gardening, and self-reliance instruction in wards and branches
• went to Mexico on sabbatical in 1992–1993 (children in tow) to assist in a Benson Institute village outreach and development project there
• advise students on nutrition or health internships (IAS 494 projects); tailors readings and observations to help guide learning; requires report of experience; available for contact through e-mail during internship
• works similarly with students going with the Benson Institute to Latin America
• works with the Benson Institute as a consultant on some of the thesis projects they fund for Latin American college student—reads students' prospectuses, and last summer went to Ecuador and Bolivia to give additional input and guidance
• Chair-elect of the Division of International Nutrition Education, Society for Nutrition Education.

Others in the Department of Food Science and Nutrition have had experience with local and state agencies that serve multicultural and poor populations. Some faculty have also participated in research in other countries, but most of it has not involved undergraduate students or development.

Shirley Cox, social work
Ethical issues, international field practice

Gregory L. Pettys, social work
Mental health: children and youth

Renata Forste and Tim Heaton, sociology

• studying family interaction and child health in Colombia and Bolivia
• working with a professor at the University of the Andes in Bogota, Colombia, collecting information on health and family decision making and family violence, from mothers with preschool-aged children in Bogota and some surrounding communities
• preparing to do the same study in La Paz and Cochabamba, Bolivia
• working in conjunction with the Benson Institute to improve health and nutrition in communities in Bolivia. The Benson Institute has communities in Guatemala, Ecuador, and Bolivia in which they have been studying nutrition and agriculture for a few years. 
• will study family interaction and decision making, health practices, and education in these communities with the intent of developing intervention programs in the future that will provide resources and facilitate development within these communities in an integrated way

John Seggar, sociology

• In April of 1998, two students, Chelsea Jensen and Annett Orlando, went to Romania under the sponsorship from their classmates to work in two orphanages in Iasi.
• six students went the following fall semester and worked at three facilities.
• Seggar was invited by Dean Clayne Pope to visit the sites.
• Subsequently, we have continued to send students and are working primarily in a dystrophic center using the Denver Two Developmental Task Program.
• As each group has prepared to go the amount of preparation has been increasing, accountability more clearly defined, and program objectives refined.
• Seggar went to Romania 17–29 March 1999 making site visits, meeting and networking with key people.
• The goal is to try and establish a sustainable presence from a multidisciplinary approach, including political science, sociology, recreation management, pre-physical therapy, PE/dance, ESL, social work, and nursing. There are approximately 100,000 children in facilities in Romania and we are serving about 200. We are presently expanding connections with Romanians to involve them in our activities.

Carol Ward, sociology
Race, ethnicity, education, community, ethnography

History

Gary Burgess, African history
Swahili and Tanzanian Field Study

Science

Richard Kellems, animal science

• 1991 went to Hungary as a Fulbright Scholar and was involved in both research and teaching relating to modern dairying at two universities
• had the opportunity of returning and presenting "Dairy Nutrition and Management" short courses to agricultural leaders in several Central European Countries
• 1994 went to Albania to conduct a dairy assessment survey for USAID
• 1995 returned to Albania to conduct another survey and teach dairy leaders management principles
• 1997 spent two weeks in Central Mexico training small dairy producers
• 1998 went to Turkey to do dairy nutritional consultation with dairy producers; also went to Ecuador and taught a short course on dairy heifer replacement development to faculty and graduate students at an agricultural university
• 1999 took three BYU students to Bolivia to train at a university and conduct a survey in two indigenous indian villages

Roy Silcox, animal science

• development work sponsored by the Benson Institute
• aimed at small village development in Latin America
• consists of technical training (artificial insemination of cattle) in Guatemala, and teaching (reproductive management of cattle) and research (increasing milk production of dairy cattle through supplemental feeding) in Ecuador
• provided training opportunities at BYU for visiting students and scientists, collaborative research (improving reproductive performance in cattle), and presentations at symposia and universities in Brazil.  

Clayton White, zoology

• working in Fiji for twelve years on endangered species, most recently with Kula EcoPark in Sigatoka (including informational material for schools), mainly about the peregrine falcon
• produced eight pairs of falcons in captivity in the U.S., from stock taken in Fiji in 1987, which are now in the EcoPark in Sigatoka for breeding
• intend to eventually have young to release in the urban enviroment, where death from shooting should be reduced
• working in Vanuatu on the same species, making biological comparisons—food availability, cyclone patterns and times, etc.

Social Change

Chris Meek, organizational behavior
Labor management cooperation

Warner Woodworth, organizational behavior
Microcredit, industrial democracy, worker ownership

Woman's Issues

Donna Lee Bowen, political science

Valerie Hudson, political science

International Development

CARE
Seeks to relieve suffering, provide economic opportunity, build capacity for self-help, and affirm the ties of human beings everywhere.

Cross Cultural Solutions

Foundation for Sustainable Development

Grameen

Institute for International Cooperation and Development (IICD)
Sends volunteers to travel and work in seven countries of the world: Angola, Brazil, India, Mozambique, Nicaragua, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.
iicd1@mail.berkshire.net

Institute for Global Communications
Also home to EcoNet, PeaceNet, ConflictNet, and LaborNet.

International Development Network
Offers news, discussion forums, editorials and other tools for the evaluation and promotion of international economic development.

Peace Corps
Fights hunger, disease, poverty, and lack of opportunity.

RESULTS
Responsibility for Ending Starvation Using Legislation, Trimtabbing, and Support

Volunteers For Peace

Local Development

Environmental

Peacetrees Plants trees, rebuilds parks, and works with various cultures while learning about conflict resolution. (801) 273-1975

Humanitarian

CHOICE (Center for Humanitarian Outreach and Inter-Cultural Exchange) Focuses on humanitarian projects and expeditions. Community Action Food Bank Gives food and basic materials to local destitute. (801) 373-8200 Food and Care Coalition of Utah County (801) 373-1825 The Good Shepard Association Volunteers give animal-assisted therapy to care-giving facilities. (801) 235-1900 Habitat for Humanity HART (Humanitarian Aid Relief Team) Work in Ghana to help cure the buruli ulcer. (801) 375-5283 (Mike Hatch) Oulessobougou Work in Mali in association with Salt Lake City. (801) 978-2452 Results United Way (801) 374-6400 Water for People

Literacy

Project Read Adult literacy training. (801) 379-6654

Women and Children

Center for Women and Children in Crisis Rape prevention and recovery, abuse intervention, and safe house. (801) 377-5500 Voice

Previous Students

Africa
Heidi left for Zimbabwe in fall 1998. Surviving a semester in Kwe Kwe, she taught a youth development program, "Life Adventures," to the students of Camelot Schools, age four to seventeen. Her work in Zimbabwe helped her complete her requirements for a Rec Management and Youth Leadership internship through Michael Phelan, as well as take a course in Organizational Behavior from Lora Cook and complete research through Tom Catherall. She also helped prepare another group of students go to Zimbabwe the following spring/summer.

Steve went to Tanzania in the fall of 1998. He also did a study on kinship relations in the vilage of Kizimkazi Dimbani, Zanzibar. Although socially, he had a good time (he was star of the village soccer team), he also spent time taking Anthropology courses from Dave Shuler and learned Swahili from Gary Burgess.

Emily went to South Africa in the fall of 1997. She worked with the Belhar Library in Cape Town two days a week to get a youth center started. The rest of the week, she worked with the University of Cape Town doing a needs assessment on the health care of a squatter camp, where she was fondly referred to as umlungu,or white person. When she found a spare moment, she worked on her historical research for Gary Burgess and Elizabeth Sage, as well as International and Area Studies courses. 

Marrianne went to Zimbabwe in the fall of 1997. At Camelot Schools she wrestled with the job of teaching 20 crazy gremlins, also known as 7th graders. She taught art and science and "coached" swimming, loving every minute of it!! Although somewhat concerned with her sanity, she managed to survive, explore Zimbabwe, and even complete her student teaching.

Asia
Shahram went to India in summer and fall 1996 and lived to go to Syria in summer 1997. He led the India field study while looking at traditional governance systems at the local level. He has also studied Arabic and Middle Eastern history and culture. He loved it there so much that he convinced his wife to travel to India for their honeymoon. While away from BYU, he coordinated classwork with Gary Bryner, Dan Peterson, and Dave Shuler.

Dave and Jennifer, a married couple, have been to India twice, once in winter 1994 and again in fall 1996. Jenn worked on studying the life of women in the village and research on the family. Dave Shuler oversaw her Anthropology courses. Her husband Dave did a neurological development study with preschool children and research on literacy and education.  Dr. Erin Bigler from the Psychology Department worked with Dave on his BYU credits. Dave and Jennifer took their young son Joshua on the second trip.

Byron and Tera went to Japan in the spring and summer of 1996. Although not even engaged when they left, they did end up getting married! They both worked on producing a paper on the homeless. Dave Shuler oversaw their anthropology coursework and they have a very interesting paper on file in the ISPI office, including photos of some cardboard box "homes."

Europe
Diana had a great learning experience in Romania during fall semester 1998. She worked to help developmentally delayed children in orphanages. Dr. Ehlert, Dr. Stimpson, and Dave Shuler oversaw coursework for her. Diana served her mission to Romania, so it was great to go back as a student and use her language skills.

Chad went to Ireland in winter 1997. He was fascinated by two totally unrelated topics—ceramics and psychology, and managed to work with both during his internship. He worked with a youth center in Clondalkin teaching ceramics and doing an apprenticeship. He took a visual design course as well as a psychology 459R class.

Latin America
Brandon went to Guatemala and Mexico several times in 1996, 1997, and 1998. He worked with a literacy program in Mexico, land tenure in both Mexico and Guatemala, and social organizations and legal systems in Guatemala. Brandon's coursework was overseen by professors Gloria Melendez, Dave Shuler, and John Hawkins. His research provided the information necessary to finish his honors thesis.

Kristy went to Guatemala spring and summer terms of 1998, where she did ethnographic fieldwork in a village called Santa Catarina Ixtahuacan. Her research focused on women's roles within the home and community, and she participated in some of their activities, such as literacy classes and basket making. Along with her interviews and observation, she learned about some of the factors that influence women's participation in local development groups: religion, leadership, machismo, and economics.

Malcolm went to Guatemala in fall 1998, working in the same village as Kristy. One of the nicest Argentine men around, he did an ethnographic field study on education and researched the Maya Revitalization movement. Just one more apple on the tree, Malcolm took a course from Dave Shuler along with taking Spanish courses from Gloria Melendez and John Hawkins.

South Pacific
James went to Kiribati, Fiji, Samoa, New Zealand, and Australia during 1996–1998. He has worked on a field study, a Kiribati-English dictionary, development projects, a literacy program, and most recently, James also worked with students on an education project in Fiji. James worked with Lanny Britsch, John Robertson, Joe Ostraff, and Dave Shuler.

Brett went to Samoa in spring 1997. While there, he researched the influence of tradition on health care. With the help of local doctors, he administered a survey to those seeking medical help and interviewed some "bigwigs." Dave Shuler oversaw two anthropology courses.

Resources

Internet
Global System for Sustainable Development is a knowledge networking system designed to provide efficient access to quality-controlled and cross-referenced URLs related to sustainable development. Mainly aimed at policy makers.

International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISDnet) identifies issues, sets goals, and compiles information on sustainable growth for the Great Plains and beyond.

Sustainable Development Network Programme offers assistance in establishing connectivity to national networks and the Internet, content provision and aggregation, and user training in forty developing nations and thirty-six, small-island developing states.

World Wide Web Virtual Library: Sustainable Development includes links to resources, organizations, events, projects, discussion groups, libraries, journals, databases, and documents.

Journals
International Journal

International Journal of Education Development

International Journal of Sustainable Development and World Ecology

Journal of the Society for International Development

Monitors: A Journal of Human Rights and Technology

Book

	Development
		One Hundred Years of Solitude—Gabriel Garcia Marquez A classic of world literature for all time—and probably Marquez's most famous work. "The first piece of literature since the Book of Genesis that should be required reading for the entire human race . . . with more lucidity, wit, wisdom, and poetry than is expected from 100 years of novelists, let alone one man." —Washington Post Book World The Harmless People—E.M. Thomas In the 1950s, Elizabeth Marshall Thomas became one of the first Westerners to live with the Bushmen of the Kalahari desert in Botswana and Southwest Africa. Her account of these nomadic hunter-gatherers, whose way of life remained unchanged for thousands of years, is a groundbreaking work of anthropology, remarkable not only for its scholarship but also for its novelistic grasp of character. From field trips in the 1980s, Thomas has now updated her book to show what happened to the Bushmen as the tide of industrial civilization—with its flotsam of property rights, wage labor, and alcohol—swept over them. The result is a powerful look at an endangered culture as well as a provocative critique of our own. "The charm of this book is that the author can so truly convey the strangeness of the desert life in which we perceive human traits as familiar as our own. . . . The Harmless People is a model of exposition: the style very simple and precise, perfectly suited to the neat, even fastidious activities of a people who must make their world out of next to nothing." —The Atlantic "A study of primitive people which, for beauty of . . . style and concept, would be hard to match." —The New York Times Book Review The Mountain People—Colin Turnbull "What is this that dwells in us that makes such wretched men?” This book is “a voyage in quest of the basic human and a discovery of his potential for inhumanity, a potential that lies within us all.” Turnbull tells the disturbing story of the Ik. My response at first was disgust for these foreign people, and yet as I read on, I began to see further into myself. I cried, and my view of the far-reaching grace of God has gravely deepened after reading this book." —Nelson Martin (medssnm@ttuhsc.edu), 6 January 1999 Doctor to the Barrios—Juan Flavier Development in Theory and Practice—Jan Black Go to the People—James Mayfield Listen to the People—Lawrence Salmen
	Economics
		Small is Beautiful—E.F. Schumacher Small is Beautiful is the perfect antidote to the economics of globalization. As relevant today as when it was first published, it is a landmark set of essays on humanistic economics. The 25th anniversary edition brings Schumacher's ideas into focus for the end of the century by adding commentaries by contemporary thinkers who have been influenced by Schumacher. These contemporary thinkers analyze the impact of his philosophy on current political and economic thought. Small is Beautiful is the classic of common sense economics upon which many recent trends in our society are founded. It is economics from the heart rather than the bottom line. Changing Political Economy of the Third World—Dorraj
	Education
		Pedagogy of the Oppressed—Paulo Freire I read the Pedagogy of the Oppressed and I finally realized that I am not crazy. Mr. Freire speaks of a world in which people treat other people like things. I often wondered why a mild-mannered person who basically got along with all his co-workers turned into a demon of the worst kind once promoted to a supervisory position. After reading the Pedagogy of the Oppressed I finally understood. Freire says it best when he says, “It is a rare peasant who, once promoted to overseer, does not become more of a tyrant towards his former comrades than the owner himself.” Thank you Mr. Friere. This little book is powerful, full of insight for all cultures to digest and pass on to the future (children) so they can begin to build a better, hunger-free, color-blind world. —ainolass43@erols.com, 15 December 1997 Worlds of Literacy—May Hamilton
	Health
		Dancing Skeletons: Life and Death in West Africa—Katherine Dettwyler This is the story of a fieldworker among malnourished children in West Africa (Mali). It involves research on infant feeding and health care and explores such diverse topics as ethnocentrism, population control, child care, female circumcision, and women's roles in patrilineal societies. The Politics of International Health: The Children's Vaccine Initiative and the Struggle to Develop Vaccines for the Third World This book traces the history of the Children's Vaccine Initiative (CVI) and examines its successes and failures in promoting the development of new and improved vaccines for the Third World.

NEWS

Thursday, 21 February, 6:00–8:00 P.M., 238 HRCB (note the time change)
We will be continuing our inquiry into the phenomenon and immense human challenge of human trafficking with a panel presentation on the topic internationally and in right here in Utah. This will also be a joint meeting with the Amnesty club on campus. Panelists will be:

Jini Roby, associate professor of social work, BYU
Susan Ritter, executive director, Utah Health and Human Rights Project
Gina Bellazetin, Utah Health and Human Rights Project
Ingrid Guzman, director, Centro Hispano, Provo
Matt Colling, sociology graduate student
Zachary Davis, political science major

 

Internship Fair
Friday, 4 April
9:00 A.M.–2:00 P.M.
WSC ballroom
Mark your calendars now!!!

 

How to use the SID E-group:

In order to improve communication between those involved with international development projects, we have started an e-group at egroups.

If you want to become a member of the e-group, type your e-mail address into the box on the front page. You will then receive an e-mail message with instructions on how to set up your account and password.

What can you do if you join our group?

• Keep in touch with the international development community wherever you are in the world, whatever you are doing, whenever you want. E-mail that you send to sid@egroups.com gets sent to everyone participating, in a forum atmosphere.
• Participate in our opinion polls.
• Share files.
• Check our database for people with your interests.
• Chat online.

Whether you are serious about international development, or just want to see what it's all about, joining our e-group is a great way to get involved.