Topic: Difference Maker
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Difference Maker John Bergmann runs a special zoo for older, exploited, and abused animals
John Bergmann manages Popcorn Park, a special zoo in New Jersey that gives a home to distressed wildlife and exotic and domesticated animals.
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Difference Maker Steven Amstrup says it's not too late to save polar bears – and ourselves
'We know the answer to what it takes to save' polar bears, says environmental prize winner Steven Amstrup, who has gone to the Arctic to study the bears for 30 years.
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Difference Maker She pours her wealth into getting books to India's poorest children
When she found herself suddenly wealthy, the Indian philanthropist founded Pratham Books, a nonprofit publisher that uses innovative ways to put low-cost books in the hands of millions of kids.
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Difference Maker She offers ex-cons in Chicago a honey of a second chance
Sweet Beginnings, a growing business on Chicago's West Side, provides just released prisoners with job experience making honey and other products.
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Difference Maker Bruce Lasky trains young lawyers in Asia to defend the poor and powerless
The New York City native quietly champions legal reforms in Southeast Asia, a region where the rule of law is often weak and governments are criticized for their human rights records.
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Difference Maker A knitting group for male prisoners opens up their world
A retired salesperson saw how the act of knitting, and a supportive environment, could calm inmates and even help them give back to society.
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Difference Maker Danielle Gletow lends a helping hand to children in foster care
She started One Simple Wish in her home to help people grant 'wishes' to kids in foster care.
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Difference Maker She made a poor township school into one of South Africa's best
The secondary school principal helps her students not only excel in science and technology, but become respectful, mature young adults.
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Difference Maker They give inner-city kids an educational camp experience
On northern California's spectacular coast a free camp for low-income children provides hands-on science education and team building – along with 'nonstop fun.'
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Difference Maker Volleyball for all on a famous Rio beach
Roberto Bosch's volleyball school was getting nowhere. Then he invited kids from the slums to join for free.
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Difference Maker Scott Neeson left Hollywood to save destitute children in Cambodia
He sold his mansion, Porsche, and yacht and set off for Cambodia to provide food, shelter, and education to destitute children.
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Difference Maker One-time skinhead Arno Michaels helps youths respond with compassion
His Kindness Not Weakness outreach program challenges diverse audiences to show the kind of 'warrior' strength needed to practice nonviolence.
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Difference Maker After surviving Colombia's mean streets, he helps others do the same
Hip-hop, graffiti, break dancing, and journalism programs give teens in Colombia a safe way to express themselves – and avoid violence.
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Difference Maker Son of an anti-Nazi hero uses family estate to teach teens
Helmuth Caspar von Moltke, son of an anti-Nazi hero, uses the family estate in Poland to teach teenagers about democracy and protecting human rights.
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Difference Maker Walter Dean Myers writes books troubled teens can relate to
Juvenile book author Walter Dean Myers writes stories troubled teens can identify with. He knows their world because he once was one of them.
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Difference Maker Violence in a Rio slum turned a suburban pastor into an activist
Antônio Carlos Costa was happy as a pastor in suburban Rio de Janeiro. But violence in a city slum changed his life forever.
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Difference Maker Family-to-Family links well-off families to others in need
Pam Koner started a nonprofit group that helps families who want to aid less-fortunate families.
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Difference Maker India's feisty – and effective – environmental champion
Sunita Narain has learned that being an environmentalist in India means being an advocate for the poor – and for immediate action.
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Difference Maker China's Great Leap Forward: One man's quiet crusade to remember the disaster
Mao Zedong's Great Leap Forward campaign aimed to launch China into a Communist utopia. It ended in famine that killed tens of millions – a disaster that Beijing is still reluctant to acknowledge.
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Difference Maker From the good life to digging up land mines in Cambodia
While living in Palm Springs, Calif., with retirement looming, Bill Morse chose to move to Cambodia to help activist Aki Ra rid the country of land mines that kill and maim.
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Difference Maker Mae Azango exposed a secret ritual in Liberia, putting her life in danger
When journalist Mae Azango wrote about a secret women's circumcision ritual in Liberia, she received death threats.
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Difference Maker Jean Enock Joseph teaches self-help to lift Haiti
Pastor Jean Enock Joseph doesn't shy from Haiti's toughest problems. His message: Haitians have the ability to help themselves.
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Difference Maker A little book has a big impact on how to run a charity
Mario Morino wrote a little book that's had a big effect – urging nonprofit groups to prove that they're really doing what they say they're doing.
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Difference Maker They opened their home – and hearts – to South Africa's abandoned babies
Christo and Lanie de Klerk have founded the Baby Moses sanctuary for abandoned babies in South Africa.
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Difference Maker An engineering mom leads effort to save an old-growth Russian forest
Yevgenia Chirikova found out a national forest was quietly being sold off. What she did to try to save it may change Russia forever.
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