All People Making a Difference
Born in prison, she's back behind bars on a missionDeborah Jiang Stein, author of 'Prison Baby,' created the unPrison Project to help women in prison find their self-worth and realize that they can set goals and change their lives.
Son of baseball great Jackie Robinson finds Sweet Unity in TanzaniaDavid Robinson's Sweet Unity Farms coffee co-op is farmer owned and operated. It's profits have been invested back into projects from solar panels for electricity to water management and irrigation.
Nicole Javorsky overcame challenges by doing, not complainingThe 18-year-old aspiring trapeze artist founded Cubs for Coping, which makes and donates handmade teddy bears to young people in hospitals, shelters, and clinics.
Toilet tech fair takes on global sanitation woesSome 2.5 billion people still have no access to modern sanitation. But beyond providing proper facilities future toilets may become profit-generating resources that create electricity, fertilizer, or fuel.
In Colombia, cows, crops and timber coexistAn ambitious program in Colombia shows that mixing grazing, agriculture, and trees can coax more food from each acre, boost farmers' incomes, restore degraded land, and make farming more resilient to climate change.
Difference MakerFernando Garcia bridges the gap between residents and law enforcers in El Paso, TexasHis Border Network for Human Rights doesn't just point out problems but proposes solutions. It could become a national model for dealing with immigrant rights.
Shai Reshef is bringing the university to the peopleThe founder of the nonprofit University of the People, an online, degree-granting institution, wants to educate the world 鈥� for free.
Razia Jan fights to educate girls in rural AfghanistanReturning to Afghanistan from the US, Razia Jan stood up to opposition and founded the Zabuli Education Center, which now has a roster of more than 400 girls in kindergarten through ninth grade.
A rainbow for China鈥檚 orphansThe Rainbow Program is a groundbreaking partnership between the Chinese government and international nonprofit groups that's helping China reimagine its entire child welfare system.
In Kenya, selling human waste could revolutionize sanitationWorking directly with residents of Mukuru, one of Nairobi's largest slums, Sanergy has developed a promising new method to improve sanitation through low-tech, low-cost toilets that create organic fertilizer.
Gloria Shin works to end modern-day slaveryShe left her full-time marketing job to join the global fight against human trafficking and modern-day slavery.
Difference MakerAndrew Stoloff's Rubicon Bakery gives a second chance to ex-consRubicon Bakery, a moneymaking business owned by Andrew Stoloff, employs 105 full-time staff, some with only a sixth-grade education and many having served time in prison.
Turning over a new leaf in the rainforestUnder intense pressure from customers and conservation groups, forest-products giant Asia Pulp & Paper has embarked on a series of changes that could significantly reduce deforestation in Indonesia and serve as a model for forestry reform.
Local advisers deliver products and profits to Cambodia's rural farmersLors Thmey, which means 'new growth' in Khmer, teaches local entrepreneurs how to advise small farmers by providing farming necessities and technical know-how that boosts incomes.
Teenage advocate of native education in Canada becomes comics superheroShannen Koostachin, a teenage activist in Canada who died before ever seeing the results of her work, has inspired a new hero in the DC Universe.
Krochet Kids knits together sustainable jobsKrochet Kids teaches textile skills like crochet or knitting to women in Uganda and Peru, helping the women create a livelihood and escape poverty.
Mariano Rivera's latest 'save' is a churchRetired New York Yankees relief pitcher Mariano Rivera was instrumental in restoring a 107-year-old church for Refugio de Esperanza, or Refuge of Hope, the Pentecostal 海角大神 congregation led by his wife, Clara.
Impassioned evangelist David Burstein urges millennials to get involvedActivist, speaker, and filmmaker David Burstein says being fearless about learning new things is the place to start.
Difference MakerHajime Shiraishi's tiny but influential OurPlanet-TV keeps focus on Japan's nuclear disasterThe web-based journalist is one of the few in Japan who continue to visit the region around Fukushima and give a voice to those who have been affected.
The Malala Fund spotlights need to educate child refugeesThe Malala Fund, co-founded by Malala Yousafzai, the teenage girl from Pakistan who was shot by the Taliban for promoting the education of girls, is working to put refuge children from Syria back into school.
