Daisy Balingit (Filipina Entrepreneur)

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A housewife struggling to live with her husband and her 3 children, she did not hesitate to get a business off the ground thanks to UN micro-financing. She leads now other women and men in her thriving smoked-fish business. Via Irin

Xavier Helgesen (US Entrepreneur)

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While in college, with 2 friends, he founded a company around selling books and made it  into a successful business. But this business is centered on funding world literacy efforts and being carbon neutral. Via BetterWorldBooks

Fadumo Mohamed Hassan (Somalian Mother)

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She is extremely poor. She has 7 children and she is stuck in an area of intense fighting in Mogadishu. But she does her best to provide for her family. Via Irinnews

Zachary Bonner (US Student)

by on January 5, 2009
in Awareness, Teens

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He started helping homeless people, especially kids, at age 7. Four years later, he is going strong not caring about adult cynicism who think an 11-year old cannot raise so much money and gifts. Via ABC News

Yohannes Gebregeorgis (Ethiopian Librarian)

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He came to the US as a refugee but he went back to his homeland. He felt he had to do something to raise the level of literacy among Ethiopian children. Via Tadias.com Video via Youtube/VOA

Carey Barrett (Canadian Organ Donor)

by on December 31, 2008
in Awareness, Family, Selflessness

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Pay it forward seems to be his motto. He gave one of his organs to a complete stranger as part of a program aimed at making waiting lists of organ donation shrink. Via TheCitizen.com Donation program TheNead.com

Leading by Example

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With his wife, Indian Doctor Anjali Ashokan took the most difficult decision of his life and raised the awareness of organ donations in a country that is not used to do it. Via indianexpress.com

Spencer Brodsky (US Highschool Student)

by on December 29, 2008
in Awareness, Teens

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He is a teen living in Maryland helping women half a world away in Darfur. As he says, it is a story about the power of one. The power of change and that we can all make a difference. Via cnn.com

Alberto Cairo (Italian Therapist)

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He has been living in Afghanistan for almost 20 years. How come? His answer: “If you can improve the life of a person it gives you so much joy.” Afghans love him too. Via Msnbc.com

Esihle (South African orphan)

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Sometimes I don’t want to honor someone for what they did but for what we could do for them. A very touching story from Martin Fletcher. Via msnbc.msn.com

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