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Abstract

This study examines how living with unsafe and degrading infrastructures leading to lead poisoning in Southern California is an embodied experience mediated by class, race, and late industrialism.

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“Risk”  - a term that is used by multiple actors in my fieldsite; public health officials, environmental scientists, school board members and parents all use this term when referring to lead p

Designating Late Industrialism

This document charts the ways this project develops our understandings of late industrialism, and in turn, how late industrialism, as an analytic, increases our understanding of lead poisoning.

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The Ushahidi Ecosystem has aimed to serve people that have limited access to the world, for example, areas around (East) Africa (“hard-to-reach places”).  One of the event the platform focused on is the post-election violence in Kenya 2008, whereas people have raised their voice to the world via the handy technological tools.  

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There are two (2) courses for this program. For age 19-40 yrs.

  1. Rehabilitation Technicians - Assistant Physiotherapists (18 months)
  2. Orthoprosthetic Technicians (2 years – 2.5 years)
  • Learnt to design and repair prostheses
  • Assist a physiotherapist etc.
  • Practical work experience in hospital and rehabilitation units (support by a tutor)
  • Learnt to face the reality situations and deal with them