Giraffe Heroes Database
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Entries beginning with "G"
Nurse Margaret Gallimore of Dallas TX rented the house next door to her own and opened it as Mathis House, a non-profit home for people with AIDS. Gallimore takes the people others don't—the alcoholics, the demented, the ex-cons. She and her family cook and clean and care for them, charging according to each "boarder's" ability to pay, which is often nothing. Gallimore takes on extra home-nursing jobs in the community when she needs more money to run Mathis.
Home when commended: North America, US, Texas Home now: North America, US, Texas Gender: F (female) For more information, click on the Giraffe's name.
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Ann Gardner of Mobile AL met a challenge to recruit and coordinate US volunteers to teach in the Czech and Slovak Republics, despite having no organizing experience and never having traveled abroad herself. Gardner worked around the clock at her dining room table to start Education for Democracy, sending hundreds of volunteers the the two republics as teachers.
Home when commended: North America, US, Alabama Home now: North America, US, Alabama Gender: F (female) For more information, click on the Giraffe's name.
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Barbara Seaver Gardner founded the Joint Educational Project (JEP), a USC program which recruits and trains university volunteers to work in the poor Hispanic and African-American communities surrounding the Los Angeles campus. As a forty-five year old displaced homemaker with a new PhD, she started the program working out of an office not much bigger than her desk.
Home when commended: North America, US, California Home now: North America, US, California Gender: F (female) For more information, click on the Giraffe's name.
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Cliff Garner and John Socky of Hepseba GA, construction workers at the Savannah River nuclear plant, reported a 200-gallon spill of heavy water, but the company recorded it as 20. The two men saw so many such safety problems that they pushed their superiors for adherence to safe-practices rules. When management refused to take action, Socky and Garner went to Giraffe Frances Close Hart's Energy Research Foundation and exposed the spill, leading to a federal investigation of the plant’s safety procedures.
Home when commended: North America, US, Georgia Home now: North America, US, Georgia Gender: M (male) For more information, click on the Giraffe's name.
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Ray Gatchalian of Oakland CA took time out of his job as a firefighter to go into the war zones in El Salvador and make a film about the war victims there. A former Green Beret who had been stationed in Central America, Gatchalian mortgaged his house to pay the costs of making the film and bringing it to Washington DC when he lobbied legislators against US involvement.
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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Jean and Tom Gaunt of Indianapolis IN have been foster parents to over 100 unwanted children in the past 15 years. They’ve endured threats and assaults to care for abused children just a placement away from institutionalization. The Gaunts, who have 6 children of their own, work to help other parents deal with special problems of foster kids.
Home when commended: North America, US, Indiana Home now: North America, US, Indiana Gender: F (female) For more information, click on the Giraffe's name.
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Tom and Jean Gaunt of Indianapolis IN have been foster parents to over 100 unwanted children in the past 15 years. They’ve endured threats and assaults to care for abused children just a placement away from institutionalization. The Gaunts, who have 6 children of their own, work to help other parents deal with special problems of foster kids.
Home when commended: North America, US, Indiana Home now: North America, US, Indiana Gender: M (male) For more information, click on the Giraffe's name.
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Tom and Jean Gaunt of Indianapolis IN have been foster parents to over 100 unwanted children in the past 15 years. They’ve endured threats and assaults to care for abused children just a placement away from institutionalization. The Gaunts, who have 6 children of their own, work to help other parents deal with special problems of foster kids.
Home when commended: North America, US, Indiana Home now: North America, US, Indiana Gender: C (couple) For more information, click on the Giraffe's name.
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Harry Gaynor of Orange NJ gave up a successful business career to devote all his time and his life savings to helping burn victims. Founder of the National Burn Victims Foundation, Gaynor organized a crisis team that flies to the scenes of fires, providing immediate, first-rate medical care for burn casualties.
Home when commended: North America, US, New Jersey Home now: North America, US, New York Gender: M (male) For more information, click on the Giraffe's name.
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Jim Geary of San Francisco CA revived a counseling service for people with terminal illnesses when it went bankrupt in the early 80's. Working more than 60 hours a week, Geary made the group a model support system for people with AIDS.
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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School Administrator Colman Genn of Ozone Park NY worked undercover for eight dangerous months to get evidence against corrupt school board members who were swindling the district of a million dollars a year.
Home when commended: North America, US, New York Home now: North America, US, New York Gender: M (male) For more information, click on the Giraffe's name.
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Nate Genna of West Roxbury MA is a member of Vietnam Revisited, a crew of veterans intent on rebuilding the country they once fought in. They began by removing land mines they laid 25 years ago, and went on to help supply medical facilities in Vietnam. (See also Robert Dalton, Bill Johnson, Frank Noe and Mike Wallace.)
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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Camille and Michael Geraldi of Kendall FL have adopted 15 children whose Down Syndrome and accompanying disabilities use all the Geraldis' skills as a pediatric nurse and a pediatrician, and Michael's earnings from his practice.
Home when commended: North America, US, Florida Home now: North America, US, Florida Gender: F (female) For more information, click on the Giraffe's name.
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Michael and Camille Geraldi of Kendall FL have adopted 15 children whose Down Syndrome and accompanying disabilities use all the Geraldis' skills as a pediatric nurse and a pediatrician, and Michael's earnings from his practice.
Home when commended: North America, US, Florida Home now: North America, US, Florida Gender: M (male) For more information, click on the Giraffe's name.
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Camille and Michael Geraldi of Kendall FL have adopted 15 children whose Down Syndrome and accompanying disabilities use all the Geraldis' skills as a pediatric nurse and a pediatrician, and Michael's earnings from his practice.
Home when commended: North America, US, Florida Home now: North America, US, Florida Gender: C (couple) For more information, click on the Giraffe's name.
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Principal Henry Gibbs and Coach Cleveland Stroud of Rockdale County High School in Georgia gave students an unforgettable lesson in ethics when they forfeited the state basketball championship after discovering that an ineligible Rockdale team member had played for 45 seconds in one of the games. The principal and the coach faced down enormous pressure from the community but they held their ground.
Home when commended: North America, US, Georgia Home now: North America, US, Georgia Gender: M (male) For more information, click on the Giraffe's name.
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