Giraffe Heroes Database
Letter "S"
Entries beginning with "S"
|
Mark Steinway and Susan Michaels give sanctuary to hundreds of dogs, cats and farm animals whose lives have been scarred by cruelty and carelessness. The couple takes in abused animals at their Pasado's Safe Haven ranch and take on the animal abusers in court.
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.
|
Englishman James Stevens sold his house and his clothing stores in Gloucester to open Udayan (Resurrection), a refuge in Calcutta for children with leprosy. At the refuge, children are given medical care, proper nutrition, and an education. When Stevens’ fortune was totally spent, Udayan was saved—and expanded—through the efforts of French author Dominique Lapierre. Thousands of children have been saved from poverty and death by the refuge called Resurrection.
Home when commended: Asia, India Home now: Asia, India Gender: M (male) For more information, click on the Giraffe's name.
|
When Mark and Margaret Stewart of Ketchum ID read reports that there were 10,000 starving kids living on the streets of Khartoum, Sudan, they flew there and organized a program that feeds, clothes and educates those homeless children. When the program was running well, they turned it over to a Sudanese team to operate.
Home when commended: North America, US, Idaho Home now: North America, US, Idaho Gender: F (female) For more information, click on the Giraffe's name.
|
When Mark and Margaret Stewart of Ketchum ID read reports that there were 10,000 starving kids living on the streets of Khartoum, Sudan, they flew there and organized a program that feeds, clothes and educates those homeless children. When the program was running well, they turned it over to a Sudanese eam to operate.
Home when commended: North America, US, Idaho Home now: North America, US, Idaho Gender: M (male) For more information, click on the Giraffe's name.
|
When Mark and Margaret Stewart of Ketchum ID read reports that there were 10,000 starving kids living on the streets of Khartoum, Sudan, they flew there and organized a program that feeds, clothes and educates those homeless children. When the program was running well, they turned it over to a Sudanese team to operate.
Home when commended: North America, US, Idaho Home now: North America, US, Idaho Gender: C (couple) For more information, click on the Giraffe's name.
|
For more information, click on the Giraffe's name.
|
Rosemary Stewart-Stafford of Sante Fe NM opposed a planned KKK rally by organizing a peaceful picnic at the same site. Despite harassment—fireworks set off under her windows, eggings of her house, smashed car windows and death threats— Stewart-Stafford continues to work against the Klan.
Home when commended: North America, US, Missouri Home now: North America, US, Missouri Gender: F (female) For more information, click on the Giraffe's name.
|
Michael Stewartt of Santa Fe NM, a former Alaska bush pilot, founded "Lighthawk," a unique flying service that works as an eye-in-the-sky for conservation groups. Stewartt has had threats to sabotage his plane, but continues to expose environmental abusers around the world.
Home when commended: North America, US, New Mexico Home now: North America, US, Wyoming Gender: M (male) For more information, click on the Giraffe's name.
|
John Stockwell of Elgin TX, a former CIA officer, blew the whistle on illegal operations by the agency. Despite threats and financial hardships, Stockwell continues to lecture, write books and lobby for a CIA that is restricted to gathering intelligence, with no interfering in other nation’s affairs.
Home when commended: North America, US, Texas Home now: North America, US, Texas Gender: M (male) For more information, click on the Giraffe's name.
|
Marion Stoddart of Groton MA devoted 20 years to the clean-up of the severely polluted Nashua River, despite the derision of people who considered the Nashua dead. Today fish once again swim in the Nashua and people picnic on its shores.
Home when commended: North America, US, Massachusetts Home now: North America, US, Massachusetts Gender: F (female) For more information, click on the Giraffe's name.
|
Anna Stoika of Chicago IL swam the Danube in 1984 to escape repression in her native Romania. Stoika needed as much courage when she exposed the corruption she'd seen as a ticket agent for the Chicago Transit Authority. Attempts to steal her documentation of misdeeds wrecked her apartment and sent her to the hospital—twice. Finally a lone CTA investigator believed Stoika, and a full-scale probe by his department and the FBI confirmed her charges.
Home when commended: North America, US, Illinois Home now: North America, US, Illinois Gender: F (female) For more information, click on the Giraffe's name.
|
Astrophysicist Clifford Stoll was working at Lawrence Berkeley Physics Labs when he discovered evidence that someone was going through the Lab's computers to access the databases of military installations and defense contractors. Stoll spent so much time rigging traps for the thief, he almost lost both job and mate before his persistance led to the arrest of a German hacker who was selling the stolen information to the KGB.
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.
|
Barron Stone, financial forecaster for one of South Carolina's largest power companies, detected that the company was underreporting profits in order to avoid legally mandated rate decreases to customers. When management stone-walled his objections, he reported the crime to the state utility commission. Stone was demoted, harrassed, isolated and ignored by the company, but an independent audit proved him right and led to millions of dollars being returned to the company's customers.
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.
|
Ganga Stone was a founder of God's Love, We Deliver, a nonprofit that took gourmet meals to homebound people with AIDS in the days when no one was sure how AIDS was communicated. Hundreds of these caring New Yorkers deliver five-course meals to PWA's all over the city. (See also Jane Best.)
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.
|
Eleanor Stopps of Port Ludlow WA waged a successful 10-year effort to turn Protection Island, nesting place for three-quarters of the seabirds in Puget Sound, into a wildlife refuge. The activist retiree lobbied relentlessly, using her savings to pay the costs of her campaign.
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.
|
Karen Storek of Tucson AZ, gathers and distributes free parenting information to help “those most in need and hardest to reach.” Despite her own limited finances and time (she’s a single mom raising two kids), she's created a nonprofit called the New Parents' Network. NPN has helped thousands of parents through an electronic bulletin board, interactive kiosks, public service announcements, and a multilingual website.
Home when commended: North America, US, Arizona Home now: North America, US, Arizona Gender: F (female) For more information, click on the Giraffe's name.
|
| Powered by Sigsiu.NET |  |
1 Way 2 Help
FIND GIRAFFES
Please note
We're adding stories and photos to the Giraffe Heroes database everyday. If information isn't visible yet, know that we're working on it.
YOU & THE FOUNDER
From time to time, Ann Medlock, this Project's founder, does a brief but inspiring email called Heads Up. You can check out past copies here. They're so good (and so free) we bet you'll join the Heads Up circle and send them on to friends & family.
For further wit & wisdom from Ann, check out her speeches, radio commentaries and OpEds.
Share Giraffe
| Click here to share...