LESSON 2:

MAKING
A
DIFFERENCE
Objective:

1. Interpret the message

conveyed in the material viewed.
Study the poster and evaluate its
message.
Melinda Gates
 Nationality:American
 Advocacy: Combat
disease, famine, and
education for the les
fortunate.
 Melinda Gates is co-
chair of the Bill &
Melinda Gates
Foundation.
 She has seen first-
hand that empowering
women and girls can
bring transformational
improvements in the
health and prosperity
of families,
communities and
societies
Ghalib Khalil
 Nationality: Pakistani

 Advocacy: Improve the

lives of the youth and give
hope that they can
become significant
citizens.,
 Ghalib Khalil is a teenager
from Pakistan who is most
known for founding the
Rescue Pakistan Youth
Foundation, an
organization that aims to
make a positive change in
the country by focusing on
improving the lives of the
youth and giving them
hope so they can become
significant citizens of their
country in the future.
Efren Penaflorida
 Nationality: Filipino

 Advocacy: Educate
street children
through a cart
classroom.
 A teacher and social
worker. He offers
Filipino youth an
alternative to street
gangs through
education,
recreating school
settings in
unconventional
locations such as
cemeteries and
trash dumps
Mark Hyman
 Nationality: American

 Advocacy: Treat a
diabetes-common
illness of people in this
processed food
generation.
 Ten-time #1 New York
Times bestselling
author, and an
internationally
recognized leader,
speaker, educator, and
advocate in his field.
Arnel Pineda
 Nationality: Filipino

 Advocacy: Rose above poverty

and hunger through his
singing talent
 Arnel Pineda is a Filipino artist
who once lived in the streets
of Manila—homeless and
hungry. He lost his mother to
a longstanding disease and his
siblings were given up for
relatives’ adoption by his
father. Arnel worked out a
living by singing for friends
and joining singing contests.
His biggest break came when
Neal Schon of the American
band Journey heard him do a
cover of Faithfully on YouTube.
He was called for auditions
and has since then became
the band’s vocalist. Journey
found their Steve Perry in
Arnel.
Evans Wadongo
 Nationality: Kenyan

Advocacy:
 Provide light to Kenya
 One of CNN’s Top Ten
Heroes
 A hero to his people in
Nairobi, Kenya. He serves
as their light—literally and
figuratively. This promising
engineer created what is
now called “Good Light”
or MwangaBora. More
than lighting up a house,
Evans lit up dreams of kids
and parents through his
Use Solar, Save Lives
initiative made possible by
Sustainable Development
for All-Kenya.
Narayanan Krishnan
 Nationality: Indian

 Advocacy: Help the

homeless, the poor,
and mentally ill
through
philanthropic work.
 he has served over
1.5 million meals to
India’s homeless,
mostly people
abandoned by their
families, either
suffering from
mental conditions or
too old to care for
themselves.
Julia ‘Butterfly’ Hill
 Nationality: American

 Advocacy: Preserve
the natural
environment,
especially the old
tress.
 For 738 days Julia
Butterfly Hill lived in
the canopy of an
ancient redwood
tree, called Luna, to
help make the world
aware of the plight
of ancient forests.
Cris Kesz Valdez

 Nationality: Filipino

 Advocacy: He invests both his

time and energy educating
street kids about health,
nutrition, and hygiene.
 Kesz’s message of hope, love
and education on the essential
topics of hygiene and health
along with his annual giving
street children a “Gift of Hope,”
combined with his Wealthy
Healthy Outreach Programs
have helped treat over 3000
children’s wounds and handed
over ten thousand toothbrushes
to children since its start in
2005.
A. Questions:
 1. What qualities make these people
extraordinary?
 2. What has prompted them to make a
difference in other people’s lives?
 3. What impact have they made on the
people around them?
 4. Simple people like Arnel Pineda, Efren
Penaflorida, and Ghalib Khalil have
become extraordinary. Does it mean you
can also be an extraordinary person?
Explain.
Group Activity:

You have learned about these

extraordinary people’s advocacies
that made a significant impact on
others.
Make your own ADVOCACY. As a
student, what can you do to inspire
others in our own school.
Choose a reporter to present your
work.
B. What have you realized?

On a ½ sheet of paper.
Based on the message
conveyed from the material
that you have just viewed, how
can you become an
extraordinary person in your
own school or in your
community?
Rubric

Content--------------10%
Organization---------5%
Grammar-------------3%
Vocabulary------------2%
Assignment:

Read the essay “For

Conversation, Press
#1” in your Book on
page 265-266.