But her university degree has led only to a poorly paying job helping dispense money to assorted charities, and she and her husband, Michel, a hairdresser, find themselves counting every penny.
Using all the marketing channels you can think of, Ruiz helped dispense knowledge about sanitary issues to impoverished populations -- from books and leaflets to local shout outs and women's groups.
During monthly-meeting days, the CHWs gave hypertension education talks, led group discussions, helped dispense medications, took BP readings, and asked a set of triage questions of each member to help prioritize which members should be seen by the group physician.
Mr. Malek was the White House personnel chief in 1972 and helped dispense patronage for major Nixon donors as well as serving as deputy director of Creep.
For three decades, after receiving his M.B.A. and a doctoral degree in business from Stanford, he taught at Harvard Business School, trained business managers in Africa and Central America and helped dispense financial aid in Asia.
In addition, accounting for different facets of functionality helps dispense with intuition-based specifications of cognitive phenomena.
Mr. Obama has said, for example, that he objects to a last-minute Bush administration rule that grants sweeping new protections to health workers who refuse to help perform abortions, dispense contraceptives or provide other care because of their "religious beliefs or moral convictions".
But they are all united in their urge to help, to direct and to dispense their plentiful and often sound advice.
New York City's penny harvest will live to see another year of children collecting a small fortune in stray pennies and then discussing how to dispense it to help the sick and the bereft.
