Profiles

Inspiring stories about individuals who are changing the world.

Bringing People Together, One Snack at a Time

November 2, 2007

From The New York Daily News

by HEATHER ROBINSON

October 31 2007

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If people from different backgrounds can find common ground, according to Daniel Lubetzky, it’s food – and the desire to prosper.

The founder of PeaceWorks, a food and condiment company, Lubetzky, 38, has promoted over...

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‘I Don’t Know What I Can Give This City, But I’ll Do My Best’

October 3, 2007

From The New York Daily News

by HEATHER ROBINSON

October 3rd 2007

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It’s Wednesday afternoon, and Shadin Hossain is surrounded by people. A friend named Joe runs in to ask if anyone wants coffee.

Alam, Hossain’s brother and his co-manager of Galleria – an art and framing store in...

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I Want to Change the Power Dynamics in Relationships

July 4, 2007

From The New York Daily News

by HEATHER ROBINSON

Wednesday, July 4th 2007, 4:00 AM

Even after Dr. Mehret Mandefro had repeatedly warned them to always use a condom, girls and women would return to her office with sexually transmitted diseases. She was deeply disturbed and wondered...

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Living a Dream – Literally

June 12, 2007

From The New York Daily News

by HEATHER ROBINSON

Tuesday, June 12th 2007

Rev. Paul Vincent's dreams of a new life in New York have become a reality.

One night in 1995, the Rev. Paul Vincent dreamed his future. Then an undergraduate at the University of Ibadan in Nigeria, he saw himself arriving at Kennedy Airport and meeting a woman he had not seen in some...

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I Look at Medicine as an Instrument of Social Justice

May 3, 2007

From The New York Daily News

by HEATHER ROBINSON

Thursday, May 3rd 2007, 8:54 PM

An ordinary mortal can’t help but wonder how Dr. Philip Ozuah does it. At 44, Ozuah is physician in chief of the Children’s Hospital at Montefiore in the Bronx. He also is chairman of...

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Giving Generations of Sephardim a Chance at Higher Education

April 11, 2007

From The New York Daily News

by HEATHER ROBINSON

April 11, 2007

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During the early 1970s, Nina Weiner realized that if she were going to help Israeli Sephardim – Jews whose ancestors had immigrated to Israel from the Arab world, Asia and Africa – she would have to think outside the...

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Maybe God Has a Purpose for Me Here

March 22, 2007

From The New York Daily News

by HEATHER ROBINSON

Thursday, March 22nd 2007, 9:02 AM

When Bizu Riki Mullu was a girl, the people of her village of Mauri, in northern Ethiopia, would come out in January and sing to the storks crossing the sky. “The villagers knew the birds came...

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Building Hope

September 18, 2006

From The New York Daily News

by HEATHER ROBINSON

September 18, 2006

The dwelling had no electricity, no windows, no heat and little furniture. Inside were a mother, six children and a crippled father. Garo Armen remembers using the light of a camera’s flash to catch glimpses of the...

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Taking Courage

June 5, 2006

From the New York Daily News

by HEATHER ROBINSON

Monday, June 5th, 2006

“When I lost my arm, I thought, ‘That’s the end of my life,'” says Muctar Jalloh.

“My goals had been to attend school and to write. Sometimes I would think, ‘I don’t think it...

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Internal Riches

May 31, 2006

From The New York Daily News

by HEATHER ROBINSON

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Anita J. Raizman will never forget the day when, on her way to work at Project Ore, a kosher food bank, she saw someone abusing a homeless woman.

“I was coming to work here, and there was a black girl wrapped up in cardboard, sleeping by...

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