Making a Difference
Sure, Bono and Richard Branson can change the world. But there are millions of individuals making a difference who are not rich or famous. This section is for that unheralded community – “to honor the decency and courage and selflessness that surround us,” as Editor Richard Bergenheim described the Monitor’s journalistic mission in 2005.
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Difference Maker David Carroll tracks turtles to reveal what nature has to say to humans
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Difference Maker Muoy You, who escaped Cambodia's killing fields, now teaches self-respect and integrity
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Difference Maker Cle Ross is bringing youth baseball back to an inner city
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Difference Maker Marisol Lizelle Salvador lost her brother, but found a life – helping kids in the Philippines
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Difference Maker Dominic Deng Diing, a refugee in the U.S., educates 3,000 children back in South Sudan
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Difference Maker Pernille Ironside goes to war zones to free child soldiers
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Difference Maker Saving monarch butterflies stirs the 'poetical soul' of Homero Aridjis
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Difference Maker Why Tracy Cosgrove opened day-care centers in Thailand
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Difference Maker 'Tinha' Carvalho uses martial arts to show kids from Rio slums a wider world
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Difference Maker Bob Hentzen walks to help poor children across Latin America
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Difference Maker Hilton Kelley helps clean up Texas Gulf Coast town
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Difference Maker Abigail Falik wants students to take a year off doing good abroad
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Difference Maker Marc Gold travels Asia paying it forward through little acts of kindness
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Difference Maker In Pakistan, Asher Hasan brings innovation to health-care cost, at $1.80 per month
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Difference Maker David Shirkey matches the poor and disabled with a free wheelchair or prosthetic limb
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Difference Maker John Alston turns kids in hoodies into a choral band of brothers
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Difference Maker After the Haitian earthquake: saving priceless murals, artifacts, and other treasures
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Difference Maker Pewee Flomoku saw Liberia's child soldiers through a camera lens. Now he promotes peace
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Difference Maker Publishing children's books – and delivering them by elephant
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Difference Maker Using a wood chipper to save cheetahs, Africa's most endangered big cats
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Difference Maker He's raising hope in southern Sudan by boosting crop yields – and women's rights
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Difference Maker Turning Bolivian street beggars into proud performers
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Difference Maker A Nobel Peace Prize winner finds spiritual values in planting trees
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Difference Maker 'Girl Talk' youth program counters school bullying with mentoring
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Difference Maker Using hands-on philanthropy to bring Haiti relief
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