Giraffe Heroes Database
Letter "L"
Entries beginning with "L"
David Levitt of Seminole FL was told that adults had already failed to get his school to donate unserved cafeteria food to homeless shelters. Undaunted, he took the idea to the school board and got agreement that all 92 schools in the county would donate. He continued to get donations, even telling guests to bring food donations to his bar mitzvah. Local reports of his work have brought him taunts from other students, none of which slowed him down.
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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Neil Levitt of Frederick MD blew the whistle on lax safety and security procedures at America's largest biological defense research laboratory. When the U.S. Army would not investigate the disappearance of a dangerous virus, Dr. Levitt quit in protest and joined a successful lawsuit to enforce tight safety regulations.
Home when commended: North America, US, Maryland Home now: North America, US, Maryland Gender: M (male) For more information, click on the Giraffe's name.
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Sue Lewallen, Marcia Clark and Tina Dierkes are conscientious Oregon teachers who insisted on getting toxic substances out of their school building despite administrative resistance to their efforts. They asked that dangerous, leaking light fixtures be replaced and the school decontaminated. When they were ignored, they alerted the EPA and the press. The entire district’s schools have now been cleared of PCBs and asbestos.
Home when commended: North America, US, Oregon Home now: North America, US, Oregon Gender: F (female) For more information, click on the Giraffe's name.
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Edie Lewis of Garland TX has taken in hundreds of "incorrigible" young people whom families and agencies have given up on. Going door to door to fund their upkeep, "Grandma Edie" helps the abused, abusers, drug addicts and drop-outs turn their lives around, refusing to give up on any of them.
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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Eddy Liedke of Kansas City MO and Virginia Allen co-founded the Good Samaritan Project, providing professional and lay volunteers to meet the needs of people with AIDS and HIV. Working 80 hours weeks with little financial support, Liedke and Allen gained wide support for the Project which, within a year, had 150 volunteers and a hospice for people with AIDS.
Home when commended: North America, US, Missouri Home now: North America, US, Missouri Gender: M (male) For more information, click on the Giraffe's name.
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Louise Lindenmeyr and Eliot Osborn of New York NY founded "Project Troubador", a diverse group of musicians, dancers and clowns who perform for free in Third World hospitals, orphanages, schools, refugee camps, leper colonies and shanty towns.
Home when commended: North America, US, New York Home now: North America, US, Connecticut Gender: F (female) For more information, click on the Giraffe's name.
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Dino Pacio Lindin of New York NY founded Solidaridad Humana, working seven years without pay to give free classes to Hispanics so they can find better employment. Lindin's "School in the Apartments" grew into an accredited degree program in its own building. A man with three master degrees and command of seven languages, Lindin was deported from Spain for teaching his University students to stand up for their rights and freedom.
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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Bill Lindsey of Fort Lauderdale FL, once the VISTA leader of a rent strike for improved conditions in public housing, became director of the city's housing authority. In that office, he created a pioneering plan that vastly improved public housing despite heavy flak from people who didn't want him rocking the boat.
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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Louisa Lindsey of Leesburg VA is a one-woman volunteer social service agency, taking in 30 foster kids and a similar number of displaced elderly people over the past 35 years, supporting them with her earnings as a part-time nurse.
Home when commended: North America, US, Virginia Home now: North America, US, Virginia Gender: F (female) For more information, click on the Giraffe's name.
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Andy & Katie Lipkis of Venice CA have devoted their lives to teaching people around the world how to work together to fight pollution, erosion, hunger and the greenhouse effect by planting trees. Their organization, TreePeople, has planted over 200 million trees and has inspired the American Forestry Association to plant over a hundred million trees in US cities.
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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Katie & Andy Lipkis of Venice CA have devoted their lives to teaching people around the world how to work together to fight pollution, erosion, hunger and the greenhouse effect by planting trees. Their organization, TreePeople, has planted over 200 million trees and has inspired the American Forestry Association to plant over a hundred million trees in US cities.
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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Andy & Katie Lipkis of Venice CA have devoted their lives to teaching people around the world how to work together to fight pollution, erosion, hunger and the greenhouse effect by planting trees. Their organization, TreePeople, has planted over 200 million trees and has inspired the American Forestry Association to plant over a hundred million trees in US cities.
Home when commended: North America, US, California Home now: North America, US, California Gender: C (couple) For more information, click on the Giraffe's name.
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Michael Lippman of Seattle WA, a physician who believes in fighting diseases at the source, was arrested for altering the wording on a cigarette billboard. Cited for destruction of private property, Lippman faced a possible sentence of a year in jail, but continued his battle to educate the public about the deadly results of smoking.
Home when commended: North America, US, Washington Home now: North America, US, Washington Gender: M (male) For more information, click on the Giraffe's name.
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Dennis Littky of stood up to community pressure in Winchester NH to better the education of the students at the high school where he was principal. The school board told Littky to stop rocking the boat with his innovative programs; parents and kids who were making progress for the first time in their lives stood with Littky—and won. The kids at his school started educating their community, running a very successful voter registration drive and embarking on other community projects.
Home when commended: North America, US, New Hampshire Home now: North America, US, Rhode Island Gender: M (male) For more information, click on the Giraffe's name.
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Patrick Long of Bellevue WA beat leukemia himself and spends hundreds of hours a year giving hope to young cancer patients and fundraising for the Leukemia and Cancer Societies.
Home when commended: North America, US, Washington Home now: North America, US, Washington Gender: M (male) For more information, click on the Giraffe's name.
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