Common Good Video Series: Rebirth in the Dominican Republic
Summary
TLDRThe video script highlights the Dominican Republic's natural beauty and acknowledges its social challenges. It introduces 'Zurza,' a non-profit entity focused on environmental sanitation, working directly with residents to improve their living conditions. The community in the capital's 'La Salsa' neighborhood, named after its three springs, is engaged in waste management, promoting a culture of refuse, reduce, and recycle. Funds generated are dedicated to programs for the elderly, fostering a sense of respect and community solidarity. The script emphasizes the importance of understanding the common good as a shared responsibility, not just an individual's or the leaders' concern.
Takeaways
- 🏝️ The Dominican Republic is a country with natural beauty, often known for its sun and beaches.
- 🌍 It is also a country with felt needs and problems, highlighting the complexity beyond its touristic image.
- 🌱 'Funciona' is a non-profit project that serves as a pilot model for what can be achieved with dedication and effort.
- 🤝 'Zurza' is a non-profit entity dedicated to environmental sanitation, working directly with residents to improve their living conditions.
- 🏘️ The community work is centered in the capital of the Dominican Republic, specifically in the 'La Salsa' neighborhood.
- 💧 The name 'La Salsa' comes from three springs in the lower part of the neighborhood, used for recreation and bathing.
- 🗑️ The main work involves managing solid waste and promoting a culture of refuse, reduce, and recycle.
- 💰 Money generated from the solid waste program is dedicated to a program for the elderly, addressing a significant demographic.
- 👵 The elderly participate in recreational, psychomotor, and cultural creativity activities, preserving traditions.
- 🎭 The foundation has fostered respect for the elderly in the community through cultural activities like poetry, singing, and dancing.
- 👫 'Pulsa Azul' focuses on solidarity, defining it as sharing the common good and identifying with the people.
- 🔍 The concept of the common good is emphasized, clarifying that it belongs to everyone and not just a select few or the leaders.
Q & A
What is the Republic Dominican known for besides its natural beauty?
-Besides its natural beauty, the Republic Dominican is known for having felt needs and problems, which the script suggests can be addressed through projects like the one mentioned.
What type of project is being discussed in the script?
-The script discusses a non-profit project dedicated to environmental sanitation, which works directly with residents to improve their living conditions.
What is the main activity of the Zurza community in the Republic Dominican?
-The main activity of the Zurza community is working with solid waste, promoting a culture of refuse, reduce, and recycle through a solid waste program.
How does the Zurza community generate funds for their programs?
-The Zurza community generates funds through their solid waste program, which is then dedicated to programs for the elderly.
What is the demographic that the Zurza community particularly focuses on with their programs for the elderly?
-The Zurza community focuses on an elderly population that was often forgotten and neglected, providing them with recreational and psychomotor activities.
What cultural activities are the elderly involved in according to the script?
-The elderly are involved in cultural activities such as poetry, singing, dancing, and transmitting cultural creativity.
How has the foundation managed to revive respect for the elderly in the community?
-The foundation has managed to revive respect for the elderly by involving them in community activities and recognizing their contributions to cultural creativity.
What is the concept of 'solidarity' as defined by the script?
-Solidarity, as defined by the script, is sharing the common good and identifying with the community, recognizing that it is a collective effort and not the responsibility of any individual or group.
What is the significance of the 'Barrio La Salsa' in the script?
-Barrio La Salsa is significant as it is the community where the Zurza's work is based, and it gets its name from the three springs in the lower part of the neighborhood, used for recreation and bathing.
How does the script describe the community's approach to environmental sanitation?
-The script describes the community's approach to environmental sanitation as a collective effort, focusing on reducing, reusing, and recycling solid waste, and creating a culture around these practices.
What is the role of the non-profit entity in the community's environmental sanitation project?
-The non-profit entity plays a crucial role in directly working with the residents, improving their living conditions, and fostering a community-based approach to environmental sanitation.
Outlines
🌴 Dominican Republic's Environmental and Social Initiatives
The paragraph introduces the Dominican Republic as a Caribbean nation with natural beauty but also acknowledges its social and environmental challenges. It highlights a non-profit initiative focused on environmental sanitation, working directly with residents to improve their living conditions. The initiative, named 'La Zurza,' is based in the capital's 'La Salsa' neighborhood, which is named after three springs used for recreation and bathing. The main work involves solid waste management and promoting a culture of refuse, reduce, and recycle. The program generates funds that are dedicated to an elderly program, supporting a significant population of older adults who were previously neglected. Through various activities, the foundation has managed to revive respect for the elderly within the community.
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Keywords
💡Caribbean
💡Dominican Republic
💡Non-profit
💡Environmental Sanitation
💡Community
💡Solid Waste
💡Recycling
💡Elderly Population
💡Cultural Creativity
💡Respect
💡Solidarity
Highlights
The Dominican Republic is nestled in the heart of the Caribbean with natural beauty.
It's a common misconception that the Dominican Republic is only about sun and beaches.
The country also faces significant needs and problems.
The Zurza non-profit organization is dedicated to environmental sanitation.
Zurza works directly with residents to improve their living conditions.
Community work in the capital's La Salsa neighborhood is highlighted.
La Salsa gets its name from three springs used for recreation and bathing.
The main work involves managing solid waste and promoting a waste reduction culture.
Money generated from the solid waste program is dedicated to the elderly program.
There's a significant population of elderly people who were often forgotten.
Elderly participants engage in recreational, psychomotor, and cultural creativity activities.
The foundation has revitalized respect for the elderly in the community.
Pulsa Azul works for solidarity, defining it as sharing the common good.
Solidarity is about identifying with one's people and working for the common good.
The concept of the common good is clarified, emphasizing that it belongs to everyone, not just a few.
The community, not just the leaders or partners, owns the common good.
Transcripts
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enclavada en el corazón del caribe con
belleza naturales
esa es la república dominicana
se ha dicho de república dominicana de
que es un país solamente de mucho sol
mucha playa no también república
dominicana es un país donde también hay
necesidades sentidas donde hay problemas
y por eso decimos que funciona es un
proyecto que puede servir de modelo
piloto de un ejemplo de que cuando se
quiere se puede
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usa zurza en una entidad no lucrativa
dedicada al saneamiento ambiental
nuestro trabajo
directamente con los pobladores
mejorando sus condiciones de vida
hacen su trabajo comunitario en lo que
la zurza la comunidad en la capital de
la republica dominicana
el barrio la salsa debe su nombre a los
tres manantiales en la parte baja del
barrio lo cual es utilizado para la
recreación y el baño
el trabajo principal defensas usar y
trabajar con los residuos sólidos
creemos crear lo que es la cultura de
matriz rehusar reducir y reciclar
con el programa del residuo sólido
generamos dinero que dedicamos al
programa de adulto mayores porque
tenemos una gran población de
envejecientes personas que eran
olvidados
ellos participan de actividades
recreativas de fuerzo psicomotriz de
generación de creatividad cultural
muchos conocen de poesía de canto de
baile que muchos de los más jóvenes no
conocemos y ellos están transmitiendo
eso y con ello la fundación ha logrado
renacer lo que era el respeto por los
adultos en la comunidad
pulsa azul se trabaja para la
solidaridad nosotros definimos
solidaridad como compartir el bien común
porque se identifica con su gente y para
ello trabajamos
con relación a lo que es el bien común
es un asunto de esta que hay que tener
el concepto claro en términos de que
quien es la persona que en el otro quien
es el prójimo
o sea esto es de todos
no es de nadie en particular no es del
equipo que dirige no es de los socios es
del barrio es de la comunidad
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