Giraffe Heroes Database
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Patrick Walsh of Tempe AZ was so determined to save his kids—and everybody else's—from drugs, that he worked for 12 years undercover without pay for the DEA. Walsh, who has cerebral palsy and is in his 60's, is also a Guardian Angel.
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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Zorach Warhaftig of Jerusalem, Israel, put his life in jeopardy to help thousands of Jewish refugees escape Lithuania during World War II. As governments and diplomatic missions crumbled, Warhaftig managed to arrange passports and safe passage for people being pursued by the Nazis for extermination.
Home when commended: Asia, Israel Home now: Asia, Israel Gender: M (male) For more information, click on the Giraffe's name.
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Linda Warsaw of San Bernardino CA was only 12 when she founded Kids Against Crime. Her group soon grew to more than 3,000 members in the US and abroad. As an adult she continued helping kids deal with the effects of crime, training teens to run a hot-line for crime victims and sponsoring graffiti cleanups.
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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Bill Wassmuth of Seattle WA risked his life to speak out against racial prejudice in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho. As spokesperson for area residents appalled by white supremacists, Wassmuth endured threats and the bombing of his house. Wassmuth went on to head the NW Coalition Against Malicious Harassment.
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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Leon Watkins of Los Angeles CA founded the Family Helpline Volunteers, where he and over 80 private citizens risk their personal safety to set up communications between the community and the street gangs of South Central.
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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Carol Watson founded Missing Children Minnesota after she discovered there were no agencies to help her find her abducted son. Since getting him back, she's used her experience to counsel other parents in their searches. She’s endured threats from angry abductors and 60-hour, unpaid work weeks to help frantic parents.
Home when commended: North America, US, Minnesota Home now: North America, US, Minnesota Gender: F (female) For more information, click on the Giraffe's name.
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Canadian Paul Watson has repeatedly risked his own life to protect whales and other creatures of the sea. As a founder of both Greenpeace and the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, Watson sails the seas disrupting illegal whaling, fishing and seal-hunting operations, all while keeping his vow to never harm a living creature—including humans.
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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Rembert Weakland of Milwaukee WI risked his position as a Roman Catholic archbishop and dashed any hopes of advancement in the church by declaring that religious laws should not overrule civil law.
Home when commended: North America, US, Wisconsin Home now: North America, US, Wisconsin Gender: M (male) For more information, click on the Giraffe's name.
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When structural engineer Charles Webb worked at the Brunswick Nuclear Power Plant in North Carolina, he reported to the managers on serious safety problems he'd uncovered. He was fired. Webb went public with charges that the company has been endangering public safety by covering up reports such as his since 1984.
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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Marcus Webster of Detroit MI co-directs REACH (Religion, Education, Athletics, Character and Hope), donating 40 hours a week of his time to counsel and tutor at-risk kids, and covering much of the program’s costs out of his own pocket. (See also Virgil Phillips.)
Home when commended: North America, US, Michigan Home now: North America, US, Michigan Gender: M (male) For more information, click on the Giraffe's name.
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Marnie and Pat Weeks confounded the odds, starting from nowhere to produce a successful peace conference. Hundreds of activists and spiritual leaders came to share their work, to make connections, and to find ways to work together better.
Home when commended: North America, US, Hawaii Home now: North America, US, California Gender: F (female) For more information, click on the Giraffe's name.
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Pat and Marnie Weeks confounded the odds, starting from nowhere to produce a successful peace conference. Hundreds of activists and spiritual leaders came to share their work, to make connections, and to find ways to work together better.
Home when commended: North America, US, Hawaii Home now: North America, US, California Gender: F (female) For more information, click on the Giraffe's name.
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Marnie and Pat Weeks confounded the odds, starting from nowhere to produce a successful peace conference. Hundreds of activists and spiritual leaders came to share their work, to make connections, and to find ways to work together better.
Home when commended: North America, US, Hawaii Home now: North America, US, California Gender: C (couple) For more information, click on the Giraffe's name.
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If you're willing to spend your next vacation helping build a clinic in an impoverished Bolivian village, Daniel Weiss can make all the arrangements. Weiss, through his nonprofit Amizade, Ltd. has been tirelessly putting volunteers, money and resources to work in poor areas of the world instead of using his PhD to make a pleasant living for himself.
Home when commended: North America, US, Illinois Home now: North America, US, Michigan Gender: M (male) For more information, click on the Giraffe's name.
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As the EPA's expert in home aerosols, Dwight Welch urged the agency to put warning labels on all aerosol products when CFC's were replaced by flammable propellants. Ignoring efforts to shut him up, Welch uses his position as president of a union at EPA to end bad science there and to stop unethical influence from the manufacturers of products the EPA is supposed to monitor.
Home when commended: North America, US, Virginia Home now: North America, US, Virginia Gender: M (male) For more information, click on the Giraffe's name.
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Former private investigator Vicki Wells created the Cancer Support Community, where "people who have faced cancer help people facing cancer." Wells not only invested all her savings in the program, she worked two years without pay to get CSC going.
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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