Giraffe Heroes Database
Letter "F"
Entries beginning with "F"
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The over 80 volunteers who joined the Family Helpline risk their personal safety to set up communications between the community and the street gangs in South Central Los Angeles. (See also Leon Watkins)
Home when commended: North America, US, California Home now: North America, US, California Gender: G (group) For more information, click on the Giraffe's name.
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Lisa Faruolo and Michele Vignola decided that Lakota activist Leonard Peltier had been railroaded into prison. They left their families and jobs to move to Kansas and work on the Peltier defense campaign, tirelessly meeting with support groups, coordinating benefits, doing legal research and speaking out for Peltier's release and for justice for all Native Americans.
Home when commended: North America, US, Kansas Home now: North America, US, Texas Gender: F (female) For more information, click on the Giraffe's name.
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Psychologist Bob Fathman of Dublin OH set out to stop corporal punishment at his daughter's school and wound up dedicated to seeing it banned nationwide. Working at his own expense, Fathman has seen 25 states ban the practice. He reports abuse to the media, acts as an expert witness, speaks nationally, and provides free therapy to victims.
Home when commended: North America, US, Ohio Home now: North America, US, Ohio Gender: M (male) For more information, click on the Giraffe's name.
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David and Falaka Fattah of Philadelphia PA have opened their hearts and home to at-risk boys for decades, putting both of their careers on hold to meet the needs of these boys. The courts routinely send chronic, violent offenders to the Fattahs, whose family grew to fill 24 houses.
Home when commended: North America, US, Pennsylvania Home now: North America, US, Pennsylvania Gender: M (male) For more information, click on the Giraffe's name.
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David and Falaka Fattah of Philadelphia PA have opened their hearts and home to at-risk boys for decades, putting both of their careers on hold to meet the needs of these boys. The courts routinely send chronic, violent offenders to the Fattahs, whose family grew to fill 24 houses.
Home when commended: North America, US, Pennsylvania Home now: North America, US, Pennsylvania Gender: C (couple) For more information, click on the Giraffe's name.
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David and Falaka Fattah of Philadelphia PA have opened their hearts and home to at-risk boys for decades, putting both of their careers on hold to meet the needs of these boys. The courts routinely send chronic, violent offenders to the Fattahs, whose family grew to fill 24 houses.
Home when commended: North America, US, Pennsylvania Home now: North America, US, Pennsylvania Gender: F (female) For more information, click on the Giraffe's name.
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Dorothy Feldman braved threats from violent men to start the first battered women’s shelter in Seattle, rescuing women from dangerous households, and opening the shelter doors despite a lack of funding. All endangered women were welcome, instantly, with no red tape.
Home when commended: North America, US, Washington Home now: North America, US, Washington Gender: F (female) For more information, click on the Giraffe's name.
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The bond of friendship between Ples Felix and Azim Khamisa is strong, resolute, and born out of shared tragedy—Felix's grandson shot and killed Khamisa's son. Now Felix and Khamisa work together to end youth violence and to reform the criminal justice system because when children kill, "there are victims at both ends of a gun."
Home when commended: North America, US, California Home now: North America, US, California Gender: M (male) For more information, click on the Giraffe's name.
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Bill Fero of Whitewater WI, a Vietnam vet who lost both legs in that war, began to deal with his anger and depression by taking families of Vietnamese refugees into his home. The autoworker used his vacation time to make six trips to Vietnam, taking with him donated medical supplies.
Home when commended: North America, US, Wisconsin Home now: North America, US, Wisconsin Gender: M (male) For more information, click on the Giraffe's name.
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Trevor Ferrell of Ardmore PA started distributing blankets to the homeless when he was 11. Since then hundreds of volunteers have joined Trevor's Campaign for the Homeless, which expanded to 15 other cities. Trevor and his family have given up their suburban comforts to work endless hours for the homeless.
Home when commended: North America, US, Pennsylvania Home now: North America, US, Pennsylvania Gender: M (male) For more information, click on the Giraffe's name.
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Sarah Fields-Davis of Ashokie NC was threatened by the KKK when she was organizing in the coal fields of West Virginia, and she continues to be harassed in North Carolina's "Chicken Kingdom" as she teaches the unskilled, female employees of the chicken factories how to work together to improve their abysmal working conditions.
Home when commended: North America, US, North Carolina Home now: North America, US, North Carolina Gender: F (female) For more information, click on the Giraffe's name.
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Lowell Fisher, a rancher in Spencer, Nebraska, formed an association with 27 of his neighbors to stop the siting of a five-state radioactive waste dump in their county. Fisher went on a long hunger strike at election time. His goal: to make the governor stand by her promise to not green-light the project without local approval.
Home when commended: North America, US, Nebraska Home now: North America, US, Nebraska Gender: M (male) For more information, click on the Giraffe's name.
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Ernie Fitzgerald, a civilian analyst at the Pentagon, blew the whistle on $2 billion in cost overruns on the Lockheed C-5A transport plan in 1968. Fired for his revelations, Fitzgerald was later re-instated and Congress passed legislation to protect government whistleblowers in the future. Fitzgerald went on to protect the interests of the US taxpayer time and again.
Home when commended: North America, US, Virginia Home now: North America, US, Virginia Gender: M (male) For more information, click on the Giraffe's name.
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Will Fitzhugh gave up his job as a high school history teacher and used every penny he had to create The Concord Review, a journal of history research articles, all written by high school students. Publication in the Concord has become the scholar’s equivalent of the varsity letters awarded to young athletes—just as Fitzhugh dreamed it would.
Home when commended: North America, US, Massachusetts Home now: North America, US, Massachusetts Gender: M (male) For more information, click on the Giraffe's name.
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Joe Flakne of Lurton VA may have been born in 1901, but you won't find this elder in a rocking chair. More likely, you'll come upon him speaking up at a meeting of the Fairfax County Parks Authority, or teaching a group of teens to build and maintain the county's many miles of wilderness trails. Since he retired in 1964, Flakne has worked full time without pay, with young people, in the parks, on women's issues, and for dozens of environmental causes.
Home when commended: North America, US, Virginia Home now: North America, US, Virginia Gender: M (male) For more information, click on the Giraffe's name.
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