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intro[0] = '<h1><a name="intro" id="intro"></a>Who Are We?</h1><center><i>\
			"The mission of the Economic Self-Reliance Student Association is to provide\
			students knowledge and skills pertaining to global poverty and improvidence and	to\
			connect students with non-profit organizations for internship opportunities."</i></center>\
			<br>The goals of the Economic Self-Reliance Student Association are to:<ul><li>\
			Create awareness and educate students about global poverty.<li>Instill a sense of urgency\
			and need to do something about it.<li>Encourage student involvement and build leadership skills.\
			<li>Raise funds to support poverty-eradicating organizations.<li>\
			Send more students to complete internships for these organizations.</ul><br><br>\
			<center><img src="images/smallfortunes2.jpg" width="400" height"325"></img><br><br>\
			Come learn about internship possibilities directly from our non-profit sponsors.<br><br>';

intro[1] = '<h1>What do we do?</h1>\
			Some examples of past events include:<ul>\
			<li>Weekly discussions\
			<li>Special documentary viewings\
			<li>Panel discussions\
			<li>Guest speaker events\
			<li>Internship fairs\
			<li>Fund-raisers\
			<li>Interactive educational events\
			<li>Non-profit organization-hosted recruiting events</ul><br><br> \
			<center><img src="photos/j15.jpg" height=55% width=75%></img></center>';

intro[2] = '<h1>How is ESR SA different?</h1>\
			The field of international development is a broad arena dealing with issues from\
			public policy and communications to health and economics-to name a few.\
			Many student organizations work to promote development in the so-called Third World.\
			ESR SA is indeed one of these student organizations; nevertheless, it focuses primarily\
			on the economics approach to international development and poverty eradication.\
			Even within the economics field alone there are numerous ways of achieving these purposes.\
			ESR SA aims to support a grass-roots approach of development at the micro-level, \
			emphasizing principles of self-reliance among individuals, families, and communities. \
			Also, ESR SA works directly with numerous non-profit partners; thus, offering students \
			more opportunities to go on internships, get further involved, and make a real difference in the \
			world beyond the campus.<br><br> \
			<center><img src="photos/j14.jpg" height=55% width=75%></img></center>';

intro[3] = '<h1>How can students get involved?</h1><ul><br>\
			<li><div class="titleText">Become a member \
			<a href="https://marriottschool.byu.edu/login.cfm?url=marriottschool%2Ebyu%2Eedu%2Fclubs%2Fregister%2Fselect%2Ecfm">Join Us!</a></div>\
			Through your membership we can continue to:<ul>\
			<li>organize special events\
			<li>build networks between students and poverty eradicating organizations\
			<li>inform and connect students with internship opportunities from these organizations\
			<li>hold fund-raisers to benefit impoverished families across the globe\
			<li>create leadership among students\
			<li>build skills and knowledge among students pertaining to poverty eradication and economic self-reliance\
			<li>...and yes, the food at the events is all for you!</ul>\
			<br><br><li><div class="titleText">Come to our weekly events</div>\
			Each Friday at noon students, faculty, and outside professionals meet together \
			to present and discuss current research and other works related to poverty eradication \
			and economic self-reliance.  These informal meetings-simply called ESR Conversations-create \
			an effective dialogue and act as a catalyst for change.  Students have the opportunity to \
			network with those in the field as well as build knowledge and skills they can take with \
			them in their lives and careers.  Look at our schedule for upcoming ESR Conversations:<br>\
			<a href="http://marriottschool.byu.edu/selfreliance/brownbag.cfm">Weekly Events</a> \
			<br><br><li><div class="titleText">Come to our special events</div>ESR SA events are held at least once a month. Check out \
			our upcoming events! (link to calendar of events)<br><br>\
			<li><div class="titleText">Invite a friend to come to an activity</div>The fight against global poverty begins with\
			your friend! . . . oh ya, and you!<br><br>\
			<li><div class="titleText">Go on an internship with an ESR SA partner organization</div>Our student \
			organization has multiple sponsors seeking students who are interested in \
			interning with their organization. Check out some of the current internship \
			openings! (link to current internship openings)<br><br>\
			<li><div class="titleText">Join a committee</div>ESR SA has a number of committees to help successfully carry \
			out club events and organizational activities.<br><br>\
			<li><div class="titleText">Become a leader</div>ESR SA offers opportunities for students to hold positions of \
			leadership for club organization as well as club events planning.<br><br>\
			<li><div class="titleText">Enter the Business Plan Competition - Social Entrepreneur Category</div> \
			<a href="http://marriottschool.byu.edu/selfreliance/busplancomp.cfm?first_menu=l2555.l2565">Find out more about the \
			Business Plan Competition</a><br><br></ul>';
			
intro[4] = "<h1>How can non-profits get involved?</h1>\
			<h2>The dilemma</h2>\
			Many poverty-eradicating non-profit organizations are looking for \
			greater student participation, including sending more students on internships \
			with their organization. Likewise, numerous students are searching for \
			internship opportunities but do not know where to find them. <h2>Our solution</h2>\
			The	Economic Self-Reliance Student Association becomes the link between these \
			organizations and interested students. Become a sponsoring partner of the \
			Economic Self-Reliance Student Association! The benefits of partnership include \
			the following:<ul>\
			<li>Your organization's presence and representation at ESRSA events. \
			<li>Your organization's own on-campus, intern-recruiting open house opportunities.\
			<li>Your organization's eligibility to be a recipient of ESRSA fundraising projects.\
			<li>Your organization's participation in the ESR Internship Fair. (usual fee: $50, partner fee $0)\
			<li>Your organization's participation in the ESR Conference Action Fair. (usual fee: $50, partner fee $0)\
			<li>Your organization's active listing on both the ESR Center and Student Association websites-where\
			 you may post internship availabilities, ongoing research, and other organizational activities.</ul><br>\
			 <center><img src='images/smallfortunes3.jpg' width='400' height='325'></img><br><br> \
			 Your organization can recruit students directly.</center><br><br>";

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RelianceMethods[0] = '<h1>LDS Welfare and Humanitarian Services</h1><br>\
						"Since that beginning, the Church has learned a great deal about the principles of self-reliance.  \
						The Savior has commanded the Church and its members to be self-reliant and independent. . . . \
						To become self-reliant, a person must work. Work is physical, mental, or spiritual effort. \
						It is a basic source of happiness, self-worth, and prosperity. Through work, people accomplish \
						many good things in their lives. . . .   As people become self-reliant, they are better prepared \
						to endure adversities [and are] better able to care for others in need." -- Elder M. Russell Ballard\
						<br><br>The first three sections of this Church guidebook offer good insights on the LDS Church\'s \
						self-reliance approach to development.  Read them by clicking on the following link:\
						<ul><li>Providing in the Lord\'s Way\
						<li>Becoming Self-Reliant\
						<li>Caring for the Poor and the Needy</ul>\
						<a href="http://www.providentliving.org/pfw/multimedia/files/pfw/pdf/57686_ProvidingLordsWay_lo_pdf.pdf">\
						Church Humanitarian Guidebook</a><br><br>\
						Check out the humanitarian work done by the LDS Church:\
						<a href="http://www.lds.org/humanitarianservices/0,19749,6208,00.html">Humanitarian Services</a><br><br> \
						<img src="images/humanitarian.jpg"></img>';

RelianceMethods[1] = '<h1>LDS Perpetual Education Fund</h1>\
						"...these young men and women can rise out of the poverty they and generations before them have known. \
						They will better provide for their families. They will serve in the Church and grow in leadership and responsibility. \
						They will repay their loans to make it possible for others to be blessed as they have been blessed. \
						It will become a revolving fund." -- President Gordon B. Hinckley<br><br>\
						To read more of President Hinckley\'s remarks and to learn more about the Perpetual Education Fund, \
						click on the following link:\
						<a href="http://www.lds.org/ldsfoundation/presidentsreport/0,16721,3410-1-10,00.html">President Hinckley\'s Conference Talk</a><br><br> \
						<img src="images/pef.jpg"></img>';



RelianceMethods[2] = '<h1>Micro-credit</h1>\
						"One day our grandchildren will go to museums to see what poverty was like." --Muhammad Yunus, Founder of Grameen Bank<br><br>\
						Click on the following link to educate yourself on micro-credit-the history, current developments and issues, \
						and debates on the topic.  A short preview of the documentary, Small Fortunes: Micro-credit and the Future of \
						Poverty is also available.<br>\
						<a href="http://www.kbyutv.org/smallfortunes/">Small Fortunes Preview</a><br><br><br> \
						<img src="images/microcredit.jpg"></img><br><br> \
						Ana Helena Domingos, an Angolan wholesaler, gives change to one of her clients in Luanda, Friday Sept. 29,2006.\
						With a just small loan, Ana Helena Domingos is transforming her life. She used the loan to buy goods in bulk and graduate from small-time \
						peddler to wholesaler, doubling her income in 10 months and spending the proceeds to get her daughter into a better \
						school and start building a house. The source of what she calls "my salvation?" A microcredit bank. (AP Photo / Jose Silva Pinto)';

RelianceMethods[3] = '<h1>Microfinance</h1>\
						"At the most basic level, the key to ending extreme poverty is to enable the poorest of the poor to get \
						their foot on the ladder of development. The ladder of development hovers overhead, and the poorest of the \
						poor are stuck beneath it. They lack the minimum amount of capital necessary to get a foothold, and therefore \
						need a boost up to the first rung." --Jeffrey D. Sachs, The End of Poverty<br><br>\
						To answer every question you could possibly have about microfinance, click on the following link:<br>\
						<a href="http://www.microfinancegateway.com/section/faq#Q1">Microfinance Q&A</a><br><br> \
						<img src="images/microfinance.jpg"></img>';


RelianceMethods[4] = '<h1>Millennium Villages</h1>\
						The Earth Institute\'s Millennium Villages Project is a "bottom up" approach to lifting developing \
						country villages out of the poverty trap that afflicts more than a billion people worldwide. \
						The Millennium Villages Project plans to provide early successes on how to achieve the \
						Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) - clear targets for reducing poverty, hunger, disease, \
						illiteracy, environmental degradation and discrimination against women - by 2015.<br><br>\
						<a href="http://www.earthinstitute.columbia.edu/mvp/about/index.html">Earth Institute</a><br> \
						<a href="http://www.millenniumpromise.org/site/PageServer?pagename=mv_main">Millennium Promise</a><br><br> \
						<img src="images/millvillage.jpg"></img>';


RelianceMethods[5] = '<h1>Millenium Development Goals</h1> \
						The U.N. Millenium Development Goals include halving extreme poverty (defined as making less than $1 a day, \
						and in which condition over one billion people currently live) by 2015.  The Millenium Promise extends that \
						goal to ending extreme poverty by 2025. <br><br>\
						Here are some key practical recommendations on how to accomplish this goal.  \
						Included in recommendation # 2 is the following, "Outline . . . an income generation strategy for poor people."  \
						Self-reliance methods, including micro-credit, are proven means of accomplishing this.<br><br> \
						<a href="http://www.unmillenniumproject.org/press/press4.htm">The Recommendations</a>';


RelianceMethods[6] = '<h1>Millenium Project</h1> \
						The Millennium Project was commissioned by the United Nations Secretary-General \
						in 2002 to develop a concrete action plan for the world to reverse the grinding poverty, \
						hunger and disease affecting billions of people. Headed by Professor Jeffrey Sachs, the \
						Millenium Project proposes straightforward solutions for meeting the Millennium Development \
						Goals by the 2015 deadline.  These proposed solutions are found in \
						<a href="http://www.unmillenniumproject.org/reports/index.htm"> \
						Investing in Development: A Practical Plan to Achieve the Millennium Development Goals. </a> <br><br> \
						<a href="http://www.unmillenniumproject.org/who/index.htm">Millennium Project</a>';

RelianceMethods[7] = '<h1>Millenium Promise</h1> \
						Millennium Promise\'s mission is to end extreme poverty by 2025. In support of this goal, \
						Millennium Promise\'s unique focus is to build coordinated action and collaborations among individuals, \
						governments, corporations and non-governmental organizations to address the root causes and symptoms of extreme poverty.\
						Our work is guided by the Millennium Development Goals (the "MDGs"), eight globally endorsed objectives aimed at \
						eradicating the multidimensional sources of poverty. Our flagship initiative, the Millennium Villages project, \
						applies scientific research, economic analysis and international development expertise to the practical achievement \
						of these goals at the community level. This project is overseen by a Scientific Council of world-leading scientists \
						and development practitioners drawn from the UN Millennium Project and The Earth Institute at Columbia University, \
						and led by Jeffrey D. Sachs, Director of both organizations. A Board of Directors comprised of public and private \
						sector leaders lend their combined business acumen and extensive international development experience to building \
						effective programs with guaranteed delivery of results.<br><br>\
						<a href="http://www.millenniumpromise.org/site/PageServer?pagename=home">Millennium Promise</a>';

var PastInterns = new Array ( );

PastInterns[0] = '<img src="images/tylersouthamerica.jpg"></img><br><br>\
From May to August of this year, I worked in Honduras and Southern Mexico as a Client Research Fellow for FINCA International, \
one of the largest micro-lending institutions in the world that distributes funds to clients in 24 countries. My team and I conducted poverty \
assessment research by evaluating the economical impact the loans have on borrowers. Clients were asked a series of 115 questions regarding \
expenditures, access to health services, number of assets, and satisfaction with FINCA. The answers were recorded by each interviewer on Palm Pilots \
then imported to an Excel document at the end of each day. After all of the interviews were completed for each country, the impact was determined by \
analyzing the data between new clients and those having two years or more. Research findings were discussed with local and international staff, and \
changes were implemented to improve program efficiency and increase client satisfaction.<br><br>\
Overall, the clients who had more time borrowing from the organization were in a better economic situation to provide for their children, \
their families, and strengthen their businesses. Over 95 percent of the clients gave FINCA excellent ratings and were very pleased with the \
organization and rapidity with which the loans were delivered. One way in which all microlending banks and institutions can improve their \
practices is to encourage entrepreneurs to invest in new, uncommon products, eliminating threats of over saturation and slow growth. They \
can also offer incentives to clients who use profits from business to invest in education or healthier foods.<br><br>\
Each day I met wonderful people, enjoyed their ways of life, and learned of their successes and failures. I was able to see places that are \
mostly unknown to the rest of the world in need of assistance and continual caring. One particular evening, I noticed an older man in a rickety \
wheelchair pushing himself along the street. I entered the local office to pick up some personal item, and upon leaving, I noticed that the man \
had not moved but 50 yards. After obtaining his permission to be his chauffer, I pushed him through town to his final destination, which by \
himself would have taken a couple of hours. I noticed puzzled looks in the people\'s eyes as they witnessed the two of us glide down the main \
stretch in rural Honduras . The man knew where he was going and I was just helping him get there. And so it is with many of those living in \
poverty. They know where they are going, they just need a little help getting there.<br><br>';

PastInterns[1] = '<img src="images/aaronfelixetheopia.jpg"></img><br><br>\
My internship consisted of a myriad of objectives. My primary focus was small business instruction to Ascend\'s 115 village \
community workers as well as analyzing/assisting in the community worker teaching to more than roughly 2,100 mothers in village-mother\'s co-ops. \
These objectives were also coupled with other projects in the areas of health, technology and literacy. Beyond working in these areas, \
I also helped in the organization as well as assisted in administrating over three medical expeditions. Each expedition consisted of \
Americans from across the United States who came over for one or two weeks at a time in groups to provide medical aid to rural villages. \
In also volunteered my spare time to a local Seventh Day Adventist college as a senior level Social Work teacher and a sophomore level \
Business Management teacher.<br><br>\
Through out each day, I learned so many invaluable lessons. Early on during my time I was talking to a colleague and told him: \
"I believe that when I go home after this, I will have learned more myself than I will have taught others." One of the most poignant lessons \
I came to learn the joys and sorrows that come from teaching people. The moments where people resisted new ideas would pass fleetingly by those \
"light-bulb" moments when a mother or a student would comprehend the full reality of what he or she just learned.<br><br>\
One of my most memorable experiences was when I was in the far away village of Ashoka. I had visited the mother\'s co-op the week prior. \
Most of the mothers were familiar with their native language\'s written letters yet many had never learned how to write. \
I had promised the mothers that if they could learn how to write their names during the week that I would give them a pen-a value of 6 cents. \
Upon my return the mothers had all arrived accompanied by their children. I stood watching these mothers encourage each other \
as they wrote their names. I saw the children, who had attended primary school, sit with their mothers and help them practice and \
finally write by themselves their names. It is such a small thing to most of us - writing our names - we do it everyday and think nothing of it. \
For these mothers, their families and for me it was a most gratifying experience.<br><br>\
How can some one prepare for an internship like this? I think that being willing and wanting to go out to an internship like mine with the \
heart and mind to do anything and to rise to each task is what would help any person in their preparation. I had no idea prior to my departure \
how many hours I would spend digging latrines on hot muggy days in far off villages. So many NGO internship programs are undefined; \
one must go and fill in the gaps where the need is most prevalent.';

PastInterns[2] = '<img src="images/samuel2.jpg"></img><br><br>\
I have always wanted to travel to Africa, and have recently become interested in microenterprise as a form of poverty alleviation.  \
Last summer, these areas of passion intersected when I took the opportunity to work as an intern at the Yehu Microfinance bank.  \
My internship landed me in the heart of Coastal Kenya for the months of June, July, and August of 2006, and left me with a great tan, \
a passion for microfinance, and a new understanding of the world in which I live.<br><br>\
I set foot in Kenya with great expectations of redeeming Africa from its dire economic situation.  \
I soon learned that Africa is quicker to change its visitors than its visitors are to change her, but still I feel that I was able to \
make many meaningful contributions to the Yehu Microfinance bank.  Some of the projects that I worked on include computerizing the bank \
payroll system, conducting infrastructure research to establish a strategic expansion plan, training bank employees on everything from \
Jack Johnson to Excel, hiring employees, and researching legal reformation of the bank.  I worked with and learned from a variety of \
individuals in Kenya including a corporate lawyer, a high-level government official, and our bow-and-arrow-wielding night watchman.<br><br>\
The more I learned about microfinance, the harder I worked to improve Yehu\'s ability to effectively serve the women of rural Kenya, \
and the faster the time passed.  Before I knew it, it was time to board a plane back to the United States.  \
To my surprise, returning to the US was more difficult than leaving.  When I left, I left a land of opportunity to find a world of \
little hope and much deprivation, but I also found there was much I could do to change this.  When I returned, I left a land that I \
had grown to love only to find a land of opportunity that I had once taken grossly for granted.  I also found that there is not much \
I can do to transfer my overabundance of opportunity to my newly found friends in Kenya.  This is why I continue to stay involved in \
Yehu and microenterprise, it is one of the best ways that I know to share a fraction of my time, talents, and opportunities the people \
of Kenya that I have grown to love.';


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