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Matching kids with adults who live their dreamChris Balme puts together at-risk teens and business-world mentors who show them a brighter future.
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Surviving floods, droughts, and poachers' bullets to save elephantsFor four decades Iain Douglas-Hamilton has been an advocate for elephants, the endangered giants of Africa.
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He invites suicide jumpers for a cup of teaDon Ritchie moved to a house outside Sydney, Australia, for the clifftop view. But soon he was stopping suicides by inviting potential jumpers inside for a cup of tea.
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Hitting a high note by helping high school musicians in Seattle shed limitationsOrchestra leader Marcus Tsutakawa and jazz band conductor Clarence Acox inspire music students at Seattle's Garfield High School.
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She recruited Facebook friends to save Gulf Coast's hermit crabs.When park ranger Leanne Sarco saw oil-covered hermit crabs on the Louisiana beaches, she started her own project to clean and save them.
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Liberia's only woman newspaper editor packs a 'Punch'Ora Garway runs the tiny newspaper Punch, which despite its modest size has exposed the need for reform in Liberia, a West African country still recovering from a civil war.
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He teaches inner-city kids how to be smart about moneyDouglas Coe has founded the Bulls and Bears summer camp, where kids can try being a stock analyst – and learn how to handle their own finances too.
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Jimmy Pham went back to Vietnam to help lift others out of povertyHis training program in Vietnam pulls poor youths off the streets and sends them into good jobs at hotels and restaurants.
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Once a high-tech exec, he now shares his passion for reading in Asia and Africa.John Wood has turned his love of books, reading, and education into more than 10,000 libraries through 'Room to Read.'
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After seeing Mumbai's slums bulldozed, he now works to save themCrews once bulldozed thousands of slum homes in Mumbai, a metropolitan region of about 16 million people in India. Santosh Thorat sees a better way: Help residents fix them up.
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Protecting women and girls in ChinaChai Ling was a leader of the 1989 student uprising at Tiananmen Square. Now she wants to help women and girls in her native China.
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Even rising drug violence won't stop him from helping Mexico's poorJerry Quick has been visiting Juárez, Mexico, for a decade, building houses and setting up job training programs.
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Defying tradition in Syria to serve as a full-time surrogate motherFawzia al-Thiab has left behind the idea of having children of her own to be a foster mother to orphans – more than 35 of them so far.
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Helping migrant workers prove who they are – and avoid exploitationWhen Haitians cross into the Dominican Republic to work, they often lack official documents that can help protect them from abuse. That's where Johnny Rivas steps in.
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'Wolf man' Doug Smith studies Yellowstone's restored predators'Nature without wolves is not nature,' says the field biologist and project leader
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Teacher combats a Colombian youth crisis with danceInternationally known dancer Alvaro Restrepo returned to his native land to help slum-dwelling children discover their potential and change their lives.
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A business course that puts personal growth on the bottom lineSomething of a rock star among business school teachers Srikumar Rao offers a class that gives his students broader perspectives on their lives.
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A prosperous lawyer aids China's migrant workersLiu Pifeng, the wealthy founder of a law firm, spends part of his time defending the rights of China's poorest: migrant workers. His ultimate goal is to fix China's faulty legal system.
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A horse rescuer who saves thoroughbreds headed to slaughterhousesNear Philadelphia, Erin Hurley finds adopted homes for retired race horses, saving them from a trip to the slaughterhouse.
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A passion for learning results in a school for India's poorest childrenBabar Ali, just a teenager himself, has started a free school in his parents' backyard for the poorest children in his village in India's West Bengal region.
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In Syria, the fight for women's rights means helping both gendersBassam al-Kadi heads the Syrian Women's Observatory, which aims to change the way both the government and the culture regard women in Syria.
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A missionary priest becomes a master builder in a booming Bolivian metropolisFor decades, missionary priest Sebastián Obermaier has built churches, schools, and clinics in the poor Bolivian boom town of El Alto.
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A professor and writer finds ways for peacebuildingConflict negotiator and writer John Paul Lederach has spent decades seeking new paths to peacebuilding.
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Planting saplings in tree-starved Mumbai 'is the least I can do.'Satish Vijaykumar's The Sapling Project wants to plant 10,000 trees in Mumbai, where trees are losing out to rapid economic development, and then expand to the rest of India and beyond.
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A passion to clean up the Pacific Ocean's great 'garbage patch'Avid sailor and educator Mary Crowley is recruiting help to clean up the North Pacific Trash Gyre, a 'garbage patch' of plastic and other trash in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.
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