Topic: Difference Maker - CSMonitor.com

Special topic: Difference Maker

Once a high-tech exec, he now shares his passion for reading in Asia and Africa.
After seeing Mumbai's slums bulldozed, he now works to save and restore them
Protecting women and girls in China, where one child per family is the rule 鈥� and a boy the preference.
Even rising drug violence won't stop him from helping Mexico's poor
Defying tradition in Syria to serve as a full-time surrogate mother
Helping migrant workers prove who they are 鈥� and avoid exploitation
'Wolf man' Doug Smith studies Yellowstone's restored predators
Teacher combats a Colombian youth crisis with dance
A business course that puts personal growth on the bottom line
A prosperous lawyer aids China's migrant workers
A horse rescuer who saves thoroughbreds headed to slaughterhouses
A passion for learning results in a school for India's poorest children
In Syria, the fight for women's rights means helping both genders
A missionary priest becomes a master builder in a booming Bolivian metropolis
A professor and writer finds ways for peacebuilding
Planting saplings in tree-starved Mumbai 'is the least I can do.'
A passion to clean up the Pacific Ocean's great 'garbage patch'
A California artist works to bring health care and education to nomads of Niger
One farmer acts to save environment from factory farms
Mary Hutton frees Asia's endangered bears from lives of torment
A Zimbabwe native helps refugees from her country in South Africa
One man's volunteer effort to plant trees in San Francisco
Teaching others how to give money
Helping young people champion religious tolerance
Mentoring juveniles before they become adult criminals