Archive for the 'Amazing People' Category

Professor Muhammad Yunas

Professor Muhammad Yunas shared the 2006 Nobel Peace Price with Grameen Bank, an organization in Bangladesh, India which he founded and directs.  The Grameen Bank provides microfinance programs that enable poor to lift themselves out of poverty.
Now Professor Yunas is announcing an independent collaboration of Grameen Health with Pfizer, GE HealthCare, and Mayo Clinic to […]

People Who Make a Difference - Winnie Barron and The Makindu Children’s Center

Meet Winnie Barron, the co-founder of the Makindu Children’s Centre along with Dianah Nzomoo, in Makindu, Kenya.  The Centre is in rural Eastern Kenya, in a town of 20,000 people between Nairobi and Mombasa.
Winnie Barron, is a physician assistant at Good Samaritan urgent care clinic in Albany, Oregon.  Roughly twice a year she takes unpaid […]

Mr. Jagdish Gandhi & Dr. (Mrs.) Bharti Gandhi - Founders of the City Montessori School in Lucknow, India

After almost 50 years, a husband and wife team, devoted to educating and teaching universal brotherhood to children, have created world’s largest school in one city. The City Montessori School (CMS) in Lucknow, India has 20 branch campuses in the city of Lucknow and over 35,000 students. CMS was founded in 1959 by  Mr. Jagdish […]

Amazing People - Li Quan - Saving the South Chinese Tiger

Li Quan and her husband have spent millions in the creation of a private reserve to save the South Chinese Tiger. Li has founded  “Save China’s Tigers”. Her reserve is based in South Africa in the Karoo region where she is now and breeding the tigers. Because all captive tigers today are linked to six […]