Topic: Difference Maker
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Sabrina Mahtani provides legal aid to female prisoners in Sierra LeoneSabrina Mahtani helps women in prison (often innocent) in Sierra Leone's rough, overcrowded prisons
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Bob Hentzen walks to help poor children across Latin AmericaBob Hentzen is walking nearly 8,000 miles across Latin America to find sponsors for needy kids and the elderly.
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War veterans get help from Rick Iannucci's 'therapeutic riding' programAt his New Mexico ranch, Rick Iannucci invites war veterans suffering from PTSD and other problems to work with horses and heal their wounds.
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Hilton Kelley helps clean up Texas Gulf Coast townHilton Kelley balances fighting air pollution with job creation and talking with chemical and oil companies in Port Arthur, Texas.
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Abigail Falik wants students to take a year off doing good abroadVolunteering abroad between high school and college in a 'Global Citizen Year' helps students learn teamwork and leadership skills
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Marc Gold travels Asia paying it forward through little acts of kindness'Shoestring philanthropist' Gold pairs tiny but powerful donations with acts of kindness
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In Pakistan, Asher Hasan brings innovation to health-care cost, at $1.80 per monthPakistan's low-income families can buy inexpensive health-care insurance through his Nava Jeevan (New Life) program.
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He helps Polish poor and disabled get wheelchairs and prosthetic limbsA visit to Poland gave David Shirkey an idea to become a one-man charity, giving the poor and disabled a wheelchair or prosthetic limb.
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John Alston turns kids in hoodies into a choral band of brothersAn after-school program in Chester, Pa., gives at-risk teenagers a music education – and much more
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After the Haitian earthquake: saving priceless murals, artifacts, and other treasuresCori Wegener is trying to save Haiti's treasures in a kind of Doctors Without Borders effort to preserve its "soul."
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Pewee Flomoku saw Liberia's child soldiers through a camera lens. Now he promotes peacePhotojournalist Pewee Flomoku captured images of child soldiers and the other horrors of war in Liberia. Now he's working on free and fair elections.
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Publishing children's books – and delivering them by elephantSasha Alyson hauls (sometimes by elephant) children's books in the local language to kids in rural Laos eager to learn to read.
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Using a wood chipper to save cheetahs, Africa's most endangered big catsLaurie Marker cuts down thorn bushes and gets farmers to change from herding dogs to guard dogs to protect cheetahs.
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He's raising hope in southern Sudan by boosting crop yieldsAs southern Sudan heads toward independence, Driuni Jakani works to promote peace, small farming, and the rights of women.
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Turning Bolivian street beggars into proud performersJohn Connell teaches skills from the circus, like juggling, to street kids in Bolivia. They earn money and go to school more.
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A Nobel Peace Prize winner finds spiritual values in planting treesNobel laureate Wangari Maathai, who founded the Green Belt Movement, says spiritual values are the key to healing ourselves and our environment.
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'Girl Talk' youth program counters school bullying with mentoringAs a teen Haley Kilpatrick felt the sting of school bullying herself. She started the youth program 'Girl Talk' to stand up to it.
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Using hands-on philanthropy to bring Haiti reliefMillionaire contractor James Ansara wanted to do something for Haiti, so he's building a hospital as his charitable work.
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Children who lend a helping hand show they can make a difference and change the worldWe highlight five kids and teens who are making a difference through volunteer opportunities, proving that helping hands can be child-sized too.
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She went to New Orleans to clean up after Hurricane Katrina – and stayed to start a charter schoolAfter Hurricane Katrina, Channa Mae Cook cofounded Sojourner Truth, a charter school with an emphasis on community service and social justice issues, to help lift up New Orleans' embattled school system.
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How a college president toppled the ivory towerPine Manor College was once a haven for privileged white women. Now its seeing a surge in low-income and minority students.
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'Super-librarian' figures out secret to getting kids to readLibrarian Cynthia Dobrez uses e-readers, bibliotherapy, and her own intuition in her middle school library in Michigan.
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Her guiding principle when working with at-risk teens: Never, ever give upThrough project Roca (Spanish for 'rock') Mary Baldwin reaches out to teenagers in Massachusetts to keep them off the streets and out of jail.
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Helping South Korea's foreign workers win fair treatmentUsing a message of love, Kim Hae Sung provides legal counseling, language training, and schools to help foreigners fit into a tight-knit society in South Korea.
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She uses paint, brushes, and volunteers to clean up graffiti and build communitiesIn Philadelphia, Jane Golden oversees the Mural Arts Program, which gets citizens involved in painting over graffiti while celebrating their history and culture.
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