Giraffe Heroes Database
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Vijay Saluja, a civil engineer in New Delhi, has fought for decades to end the corruption that has slowed or prevented needed infrastructure improvements in the city.
Home when commended: Asia, India Home now: Asia, India Gender: M (male) For more information, click on the Giraffe's name.
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Jerry Sanders was a member of Save the Trees, a group that worked fifteen years to save the last old-growth trees on Whidbey Island in Washington. These islanders began by standing in front of the ancient trees as heavy machinery moved toward them. They went on to lobby public officials and go through the courts, winning a long battle to protect not only their island’s last giant trees, but also other old-growth throughout the state. (See also Sue Ellen White-Hansen, Steve Shapiro, Debora Valis, Neil Colburn, Candace Culver, Sylvia Sanders, Harry Wilbert, Myrl Wilber, Pat Goff and Jack Noel)
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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Sylvia Sanders was a member of Save the Trees, a group that worked fifteen years to save the last old-growth trees on Whidbey Island in Washington. These islanders began by standing in front of the ancient trees as heavy machinery moved toward them. They went on to lobby public officials and go through the courts, winning a long battle to protect not only their island’s last giant trees, but also other old-growth throughout the state. (See also Sue Ellen White-Hansen, Steve Shapiro, Debora Valis, Neil Colburn, Candace Culver, Jerry Sanders, Harry Wilbert, Myrl Wilber, Pat Goff and Jack Noel)
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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Kristy Sarconi of Comptche CA volunteered fulltime as a regional director of CATs (Californians for Alternatives to Toxics) for a year, involving the Sierra Club Legal Defense Fund in imposing a moratorium on spraying in the seven counties of northern California, and in forcing CalTrans to prepare an Environmental Impact Report that, under state law, calls for use of the safest methods of vegetation management.
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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Carol Sasaki of, founder of HOME (Helping Ourselves Means Education), works tirelessly to use her own experience as a welfare graduate to help others move from the dead-end of welfare to the dignity of education and jobs.
Home when commended: North America, US, Ohio Home now: North America, US, Ohio Gender: F (female) For more information, click on the Giraffe's name.
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When attorney Doris Lipson Sassower blew the whistle on questionable judicial practices in New York, a state court suspended her law license with no charges, no hearing, no right to appeal and no questions asked. Her ongoing fight for justice in the legal profession is headed for the U.S. Supreme Court.
Home when commended: North America, US, New York Home now: North America, US, New York Gender: F (female) For more information, click on the Giraffe's name.
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Bruce Saunders works against stereotypes of people with mental illnesses by running Movie Mondays, a weekly free showing of movies for an audience of mental patients and the public-at-large. Saunders, who has bipolar disorder, calls the program a “guerilla psycho-social rehab project.”
Home when commended: North America, Canada, British Columbia Home now: North America, Canada, British Columbia Gender: M (male) For more information, click on the Giraffe's name.
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Phillip Savage of Bethesda MD, an Equal Employment Opportunity officer, actually did his job at the Securities and Exchange Commission, bucking pressure on him from higher-ups to ignore cases of hiring injustices to minorities and women.
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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Home when commended: North America, US, Washignton Home now: North America, US, Washington Gender: G (group) For more information, click on the Giraffe's name.
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David Schalk, of Bloomington IN insisted that city water be tested for toxins and that PCB–contaminated wastes found in several illegal landfills not be incinerated. Illegally fired as the city's chemist, he was replaced by Ron Smith, who made the same findings and the same demands; Smith resigned after seven years of seeing his efforts to protect the city ignored and overruled.
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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See South Africa Now or Global Vision Home now: North America, US, New York Gender: M (male) For more information, click on the Giraffe's name.
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John Scherrer of Los Angeles CA created the LA Community Action Network (LA-CAN). Devoting all his time and much of his income to the work, Scherrer matches volunteers from 19 to 91 with non-profits that need their help.
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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Peggy Schlagetter of Columbus OH has devoted her life to helping prison inmates make the transition to life on the "outside." Schlagetter teaches life skills classes and counsels the men individually, running a 24-hour hotline for ex-cons who are building new lives.
Home when commended: North America, US, Ohio Home now: North America, US, Ohio Gender: F (female) For more information, click on the Giraffe's name.
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Brian Schnitzer of Billings MT braved threats from aryan supremacists and helped lead the community in resisting intimidation by aryan supremacists. After an aryan attack on a Jewish home, thousands of Billings residents, Jews and non-Jews alike, responded by placing menorahs in their windows, despite the fear that they might also become targets.(See also Sarah Anthony, Wayne Inman, Margaret Macdonald, Tammie Schnitzer and Keith Torney.)
Home when commended: North America, US, Montana Home now: North America, US, Montana Gender: M (male) For more information, click on the Giraffe's name.
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Tammie Schnitzer of Billings MT braved threats from aryan supremacists and helped lead the community in resisting intimidation by aryan supremacists. After an aryan attack on a Jewish home, thousands of Billings residents, Jews and non-Jews alike, responded by placing menorahs in their windows, despite the fear that they might also become targets.(See also Sarah Anthony, Wayne Inman, Margaret Macdonald, Brian Schnitzer and Keith Torney.)
Home when commended: North America, US, Montana Home now: North America, US, Montana Gender: C (couple) For more information, click on the Giraffe's name.
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Clint Schultz is a quadriplegic whose persistent advocacy for the handicapped resulted in a change in Minnesota state laws, permitting the employed handicapped to keep a significantly larger portion of their disability benefits.
Home when commended: North America, US, Minnesota Home now: North America, US, Minnesota Gender: M (male) For more information, click on the Giraffe's name.
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