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2. The Other Hundred is a unique photo-book project aimed as a counterpoint to the Forbes 100
and other media rich lists by telling the stories of people around the world who are not rich but
who deserve to be celebrated.
Its 100 photo-stories move beyond the stereotypes and clichés that fill so much of the world’s
media to explore the lives of people whose aspirations and achievements are at least as
noteworthy as any member of the world’s richest 1,000.
Selected from 11,000 images shot in 158 countries and submitted by nearly 1,500
photographers, The Other Hundred celebrates those who will never find themselves on the
world’s rich lists or celebrity websites.
Visit www.theotherhundred.com for more info

3. Carlos Enrique Marroquin runs Maya Pedal, a non-profit organisation that turns unwanted bicycles into
pedal-powered machines. Set up in 1997 in the small southern Guatemalan town of San Andrés Itzapa,
Maya Pedal’s products include blenders for making fruit drinks or grinders for processing corn. Some
are used in small businesses, others to make daily life less arduous.

4. One local women’s group uses a Maya Pedal
machine to make aloe vera shampoo. Sales of the
shampoo, as well as providing income for the
women in the group, have also helped buy
saplings for a local reforestation project. Another
group uses a pedalpowered pump to raise
drinking water in a 30-foot well.
Staffed by volunteers, Maya Pedal also puts
together fully working bicycles from donated
parts, selling them to local people at affordable
prices. With its tools and machines, the workshop
is also an important resource for local needs –
from sharpening a machete to mending a football.

5. Riley, 2, never seems to leave his
stroller as his mother, Brittany,
and stepfather, Nelson,
panhandle their way from street
to street and borough to
borough.
He eats little. Most of what he
does eat costs less than US$0.99
an item. That seems to be how
the family budgets: all food and
drink items must cost US$0.99 or
less. The rule doesn’t hold for
cigarettes or K2, a marijuana
substitute.
Nelson met Brittany at a shelter.
Because couples aren’t allowed
into shelters in New York, rather
than spend any time apart, they
decided to live together on the
streets with Riley. Riley’s stroller
is used to carry their few
belongings.

8. Cruzton, a small village in the Chiapas mountains of southern Mexico, is home to four families of the
Tzotzil people, one of several indigenous Mayan communities in the region. The families have lived in
the area for at least several generations, growing corn and raising pigs, chickens and turkeys.
Their homes have electricity, but the area has no medical facilities and its roads remain unmetalled.
The nearest town is two hours’ drive away, most of it along a dirt track. The families have two off-road
vehicles but seldom use them. Apart from in an emergency or for transporting a heavy load, they move
around by horse or on foot. Each year, after the corn harvest, they sell part of their produce in the
town’s market to earn a little cash to buy food and other necessities.

11. Every year on the second day of February, a large crowd gathers at Ramirez beach in the Uruguayan
capital, Montevideo, to celebrate the festival of Yemanjá, an African sea goddess who protects
fishermen, symbolises motherhood and owns all the sea’s fruits and riches. Many people bring
offerings to thank her and ask for her blessing and protection in the year ahead. Some of these are
placed on small altars lit with candles, others are put into small f loats that are then released onto the
sea.

15. Megan works at Crazy Mountain Cattle Company, a 2,000-acre ranch in Montana, near the small town of
Big Timber on the Boulder River.
Her job is to take care of the cattle. Every morning, she gets up early and lets the ranch’s 20 or so horses
out of their barns, then drives its herd of a few hundred cattle to fresh pasture. If she ever needs help,
Rick, the ranch’s owner, pitches in. She earns US$800 a month plus free meat and accommodation in a
trailer home.
Megan spends most of her evenings in the trailer making saddles, a craft practised by her family for
generations. She has only recently starting using a computer, and even now doesn’t have her own email
address. Occasionally her boyfriend comes to visit for a day or two when he has a few days off.

18. Hernán Pallo, 45, with Wellington, 3, one of his seven sons, at their family home 57 kilometres into the
woods of Ecuador’s Llanganates National Park. Hernán bought this spot in 1993, three years before the
area was declared a national park in 1996.
As well as farming, the family makes wooden spoons from alder. They sell these at a market in Salcedo,
the nearest town, some 65 kilometres away, which they travel to in the family truck. Three of Hernán’s
sons work with him raising pigs. The others go to school in Salcedo, staying there with relatives.

21. The Global Institute For Tomorrow – GIFT – is an independent pan-Asian think and do tank dedicated to advancing an understanding of:
The evolving social contracts that exist between the public, private, and civil sectors;
The shift of economic and political power from the West to the East;
The reshaping of the rules of global capitalism.
We ask the question - what does this mean for Asia? GIFT engages with future leaders through an exceptional approach to executive education. Our unique
action-learning programmes equip participants to lead effectively and succeed in a rapidly changing and globalised world.
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