Giraffe Heroes Database
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Denise Zabalaga risked her life and her career to travel alone in Afghanistan and document with her photographs the lives of Afghan women, many of whom suffer from domestic violence, are killed in honor murders, used to pay off debts, denied education and health care, and suffer extremely high suicide rates.
Home when commended: North America, US, New York Home now: North America, US, California Gender: F (female) For more information, click on the Giraffe's name.
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Faye and Terrence Zealand of Newark NJ gave up their own security and privacy to open St. Clare's, a temporary home where kids with AIDS or HIV could stay until the Zealands could find permanent homes for them.
Home when commended: North America, US, New Jersey Home now: North America, US, New Jersey Gender: F (female) For more information, click on the Giraffe's name.
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Faye and Terrence Zealand gave up their own security and privacy to open St. Clare's, a temporary home in Newark NJ where kids with AIDS or HIV can stay until the Zealands find loving homes for them.
Home when commended: North America, US, New Jersey Home now: North America, US, New Jersey Gender: C (couple) For more information, click on the Giraffe's name.
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Terrence and Faye Zealand of Newark NJ gave up their own security and privacy to open St. Clare's, a temporary home where kids with AIDS or HIV could stay until the Zealands could find permanent homes for them.
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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Willis Zenk, an ordained minister, raids dumpsters to supply food to the hungry. Retired from his ministry, Zenk works 70 hours a week distributing supermarkets' discarded but healthy food to the poor of Kennewick WA.
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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After Nancy Ziegenmeyer was raped she was outraged by the stigma attached to rape victims. Ziegenmeyer decided to allow her own story to be told in the press, provoking a major national discussion. Ziegenmeyer continued to speak out, determined to see that other women not be victimized by rapists, and by the medical and legal systems.
Home when commended: North America, US, Iowa Home now: North America, US, Iowa Gender: F (female) For more information, click on the Giraffe's name.
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Russell Zimmerman of Dayton OH, once the president and CEO of an aerospace company, left that world to start AIDS Foundation Dayton, despite the puzzlement and outright disapproval of many of his peers. Paid a fraction of his former salary, Zimmerman finds the job so satisfying that he says he will never return to the fast track.
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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Roberta Zolkoski is a school nurse-practitioner in Pittsburgh PA who spends her summer vacations at camp—refugee camp. When school gets out she heads for the Sudan where she teaches primary health care to thousands of refugee Ethiopians and Eritreans, living and eating as they do. Zolkoski also travels to Guatemala every Christmas, laden with gifts for the people she met there in her six-year tenure as a Peace Corps volunteer.
Home when commended: North America, US, Pennsylvania Home now: North America, US, Pennsylvania Gender: F (female) For more information, click on the Giraffe's name.
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Ann Marie Zon, a member of the Felician Sisters for 18 years, left the order when she was told she could not continue working with the poor in Nicaragua. She has been in Nicaragua ever since, returning to this country three months a year to canvass for donations and earn cash as a teacher.
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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Michael Zuercher, a maintenance crew member at a school in Oak Harbor WA, refused orders to bury toxic materials on the school’s grounds. When the dumping was done anyway, Zuercher blew the whistle on his employer—the local School District. Zuercher was fired, but his revelations forced the district to then fire his supervisor and to institute a “least toxic” management policy that is being adopted by other districts in the state.
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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