Giraffe Heroes Database
Letter "M"
Entries beginning with "M"
Balbir Mathur of Wichita KS gave up a profitable business to dedicate his life to fighting hunger through planting trees. Mathur is the founder of "Trees for Life," an organization that has planted almost a million food-bearing trees in India, and now supplies trees to other countries as well.
Home when commended: North America, US, Kansas Home now: North America, US, Kansas Gender: M (male) For more information, click on the Giraffe's name.
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Adah Maurer of Berkeley CA, a former school psychologist, has devoted her life to outlawing corporal punishment in our schools, winning protective legislation in 19 states.
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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Percell Maynard of Upland CA overcame a lack of financial resources and his own addiction to drugs to assist others in beating addiction. After studying counseling, he founded Community Oriented Drug Education, a broad-service rehab center that helps addicts clean up and restart their lives.
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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Ewing Mays of Heber Springs AR lost his legs in World War II and used his retirement years to run the New Hope Center, providing other catastrophically injured people with one-on-one counselling and job training.
Home when commended: North America, US, Arkansas Home now: North America, US, Arkansas Gender: M (male) For more information, click on the Giraffe's name.
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Veronica Maz of the District of Columbia resigned her professorship at Georgetown University to start a soup kitchen. She then added a women's shelter, children's programs and a traveling soup wagon. Because Maz does not approve of charity, people pay for their meals with aluminum cans or with small amounts of coins.
Home when commended: North America, US, Washington DC Home now: North America, US, Pennsylvania Gender: F (female) For more information, click on the Giraffe's name.
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When he was in the seventh grade, Franklin McCabe III of Parker AZ started a music and light show called "Chaskae D.J." (CHESS-kay means First Son in Sioux). McCabe, a proud Navajo/Sioux who lives on the Colorado River Indian Tribes Reservation, decided to use Chaskae D.J. to fight substance abuse. McCabe sparked no-alcohol social events for Native Americans in Arizona, Idaho, Wyoming, Colorado and Montana.
Home when commended: North America, US, Arizona Home now: North America, US, Arizona Gender: M (male) For more information, click on the Giraffe's name.
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Tolbert McCarroll, Julie DeRossi and Marti Aggeler of Santa Rosa CA, members of the Starcross Community, have endured community ostracism to care for AIDS babies. They have been foster parents to unwanted children for years. Starcross Community is also involved in advocacy work for children with AIDS and street outreach for high-risk women, and care of HIV positive orphans in Romania.
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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John McCarthy of Swansea MA, the Superintendent of Swansea's Schools, stood up for the right of a student with AIDS to continue attending school. Despite strong community opposition, McCarthy insisted there was no evidence of danger to the other students and helped the community rally to the child's support.
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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Michael McCarthy of Vancouver BC gave up his own work and used all his savings to start a newspaper called Spare Change. Street people sell the paper and keep the money. Readers get street life insights, political commentary, and a local entertainment guide; vendors get a positive interaction with buyers and a lot of self respect.
Home when commended: North America, Canada, British Columbia Home now: North America, US, California Gender: M (male) For more information, click on the Giraffe's name.
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Reverend James McCloskey of Princeton NJ, a former business executive, started Centurion Ministries to work on behalf of people who have been wrongly imprisoned. McCloskey gathers new evidence, tracks down witnesses, and presses the legal system so that justice is finally served.
Home when commended: North America, US, New Jersey Home now: North America, US, New Jersey Gender: M (male) For more information, click on the Giraffe's name.
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Reverend Maurice McCrackin of Cincinnati OH established the first interracial congregation in the Presbyterian Church in 1945. He later ran Operation Freedom, an unofficial relief agency for people who lost homes or jobs because of their civil rights activities. Jailed many times for his civil rights actions, he founded Talbot House to assist former prisoners.
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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Librarian Laila McRae of Freeland WA has spent a lifetime working for peace, including protest marching back when she was 80. Some townspeople called her a Communist, boycotted library functions, and tried to get her fired.
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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George McDaniel of Columbia SC walked 51 miles on his 51st birthday,raising over $7,000 for Camp Rainbow, a holiday place for kids with cancer. McDaniel has repeated the fundraiser each birthday, walking a mile further each year.
Home when commended: North America, US, South Carolina Home now: North America, US, South Carolina Gender: M (male) For more information, click on the Giraffe's name.
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Dina McDermott's neighborhood in Seattle was dangerous, demoralized and drug-ridden. But instead of moving on, McDermott dug in. Working with other residents, the police and the city, she organized a citizens’ safety committee and then created a summer program for neighborhood kids. Despite resistance and reprisals from the lawbreakers, local crime is down and families are reclaiming their neighborhood.
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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Ralph McGehee of Falls Church VA, a former CIA officer, blew the whistle on the agency, writing and speaking about illegal covert operations, and about the government's distortion of intelligence reports to support its policies. McGehee endures surveilance of his home, phone taps, and constant monitoring of his movements.
Home when commended: North America, US, Virginia Home now: North America, US, South Carolina Gender: M (male) For more information, click on the Giraffe's name.
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