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Khaldun Bshara has dodged bullets to preserve Palestinians' heritageKhaldun Bshara heads RIWAQ, a West Bank architectural firm which renovates and preserves buildings that are part of Palestinians' cultural heritage.
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Jeremy Teicher helps young Africans tell the world 'This Is Us.'American Jeremy Teicher teaches youths in Senegal how to be filmmakers who tell their own stories.
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Ryan Clinton wants to make animal shelters 'no kill' zonesRyan Clinton helped make Austin, Texas, a 'no kill' zone for shelter animals. His next goal: The rest of the US.
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Gary White's goal: bring clean water to a billion people who lack itGary White cofounded Water.org with actor Matt Damon. His success secret: Making sure local people are deeply involved.
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Sze LaiShan helps the poor trapped in tiny 'coffin' and 'cage' tenementsSze LaiShan aids the vulnerable underclass who live in poverty amid Hong Kong's vast wealth.
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Tri Mumpuni Iskandar builds small hydro plants to bring electricity to Indonesian villagesA petite entrepreneur wants to bring hydropower to the 90 million Indonesians without electricity.
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Judith Heumann: from 'fire hazard' to top advocate for disabled peopleJudith Heumann learned early on that if she was going to be part of society she'd have to fight for the right.
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Paul Joynson-Hicks launches groups that empower Africa's poor and disabledPhotographer Paul Joynson-Hicks has a second vocation: He founds nonprofit organizations in Uganda and Tanzania that serve the needy.
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Karin Alfredsson travels the world to help stop violence against womenAuthor and journalist Karin Alfredsson founded 'Cause of Death: Woman' to investigate the worldwide epidemic of violent acts against women
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Ned Eames uses tennis to boost inner-city reading skills and graduation ratesTennis helped Ned Eames thrive during his childhood – now he uses it to help Boston kids improve their reading skills and stay in school.
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Ek Sonn Chan pipes something precious into the homes of Phnom Penh: safe waterResidents of Cambodia's capital city used to have little access to safe drinking water; now more than 90 percent of homes have it.
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Kyes Stevens and her prison arts project change women's livesThe Alabama Prison Arts + Education Project raises self-esteem and provides a creative outlet.
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Janet Siddall helps African families through 'Grandmothers to Grandmothers.'Ex-ambassador Janet Siddall works with those caring for those affected by HIV/AIDS through the 'Grandmothers to Grandmothers' project
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David Carroll tracks turtles to reveal what nature has to say to humansScientist David Carroll doesn't publish academic papers but tells turtles' stories through his art and writings.
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Walter Lewin is 'hands on' helping students grasp physicsWhether it's swinging on a pendulum or riding a rocket tricycle, the former MIT professor, now on YouTube, finds different ways to assist students as they study the laws of physics.
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Naomi Oreskes: fierce defender of climate change science – and scientistsNaomi Oreskes has become a leading voice in defense of the science underlying global warming and the scientists who are researching it.
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Muoy You, who escaped Cambodia's killing fields, now teaches self-respect and integrityMuoy You has opened Seametrey Children's Village in Phnom Penh to help restore Cambodia's culture.
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Cle Ross is bringing youth baseball back to an inner cityCle Ross is turning an eyesore in Kansas City, Kan., back into a baseball park to get urban kids off the streets and teach life lessons.
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She lost her brother, but found a life - helping kids in the PhilippinesHer brother's death inspired a foundation that supports an orphanage in the Philippines
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Refugee in U.S. educates 3,000 children back in South SudanDominic Deng Diing, who escaped the violence in Sudan, raises funds to help schoolchildren there.
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Pernille Ironside goes to war zones to free child soldiersAround the world children are forced to serve in military groups or as laborers or worse. UNICEF's Ironside has set some of them free.
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Saving monarch butterflies stirs the 'poetical soul' of Homero AridjisHomero Aridjis, one of Mexico's top environmentalists and poets, has led the battle to save the habitat of monarch butterflies, Pacific gray whales, and sea turtles.
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Larry Joe, who found his music behind bars, now inspires othersLarry Joe voluntarily turned himself in to police in South Africa, then found music in prison. He's turned his life around and now preaches against drugs and gangs.
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Why Tracy Cosgrove opened day-care centers in ThailandA plucky British ex-pat in Pattaya, Thailand, saw kids playing in the dirt while parents worked at a construction site. So, she set up day-care centers and orphanages for needy children.
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'Tinha' Carvalho uses martial arts to show kids from Rio slums a wider worldA celebrity gym owner in Rio de Janeiro teaches martial arts to entice kids from the favelas to stay in school.
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