Topic: Difference Maker - CSMonitor.com

Special topic: Difference Maker

War veterans get help from Rick Iannucci's 'therapeutic riding' program
Hilton Kelley helps clean up Texas Gulf Coast town
Abigail Falik wants students to take a year off doing good abroad
Marc Gold travels Asia paying it forward through little acts of kindness
In Pakistan, Asher Hasan brings innovation to health-care cost, at $1.80 per month
David Shirkey matches the poor and disabled with a free wheelchair or prosthetic limb
John Alston turns kids in hoodies into a choral band of brothers
After the Haitian earthquake: saving priceless murals, artifacts, and other treasures
Pewee Flomoku saw Liberia's child soldiers through a camera lens. Now he promotes peace
Publishing children's books 鈥� and delivering them by elephant
Using a wood chipper to save cheetahs, Africa's most endangered big cats
He's raising hope in southern Sudan by boosting crop yields 鈥� and women's rights
Turning Bolivian street beggars into proud performers
A Nobel Peace Prize winner finds spiritual values in planting trees
'Girl Talk' youth program counters school bullying with mentoring
Using hands-on philanthropy to bring Haiti relief
Children who lend a helping hand show they can make a difference and change the world
She went to New Orleans to clean up after Hurricane Katrina 鈥� and stayed to start a charter school
How a college president toppled the ivory tower
'Super-librarian' figures out secret to getting kids to read
Her guiding principle when working with at-risk teens: Never, ever give up
Helping South Korea's foreign workers win fair treatment
She uses paint, brushes, and volunteers to clean up graffiti and build communities
Matching kids with adults who live their dream
Surviving floods, droughts, and poachers' bullets to save elephants