One World Trade Center overlooks the ground zero memorial site, Saturday, Sept. 10, in New York. (Mark Lennihan/AP)
3:37 pm ET -Brought together by 9/11, three friends – a rabbi, a pastor, and an imam – work together to find and appreciate the spiritual resources present in all of their faith traditions.
People Making a Difference (View all)
- Ned Eames uses tennis to boost inner-city reading skills and graduation rates
- Mobile phones help bring aid to remotest regions
- Bicycle Coffee Co. pedals fair-trade coffee
- The US should invest in farmers' markets, report says
- Visiting the greenest gas station in the United States
- Young lawyer aids exile Tibetans with his language and legal skills
- Are nonprofit groups dead?
- John Danner shoots for the stars with Rocketship charter schools
- Jason Atkinson seeks to place public service above partisanship
- One person manufactures success by helping to feed the world's hungry
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Ek Sonn Chan pipes something precious into the homes of Phnom Penh: safe water
Residents of Cambodia's capital city used to have little access to safe drinking water; now more than 90 percent of homes have it.
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Solar firm taps social-media expert to spur a 'rooftop revolution'
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Hatua Likoni offers scholarships and mentors to Kenya's students
The nonprofit supports Kenyan students who need mentoring or lack the means to pay for school. The next problem to solve: 9,000 desks for 14,000 students.
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Harnessing the sun’s power to make water flow
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Is recycling outdated?
Don't buy plastic containers or aluminum foil when they can be reused over and over again, blogger says.
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Used soda bottles light up the world – for free
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Backpack Farms helps small African farmers defeat drought
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Five trees you’ve never heard of that are helping to feed Africa
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Tech innovation from the minds and thumbs of disadvantaged youths
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Abaarso Tech, run like a business, brings top-notch education to Somalia
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Kyes Stevens and her prison arts project change women's lives
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Ghana schoolboy launches his own Somalia famine fundraiser
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Laura Moulton brings books to the homeless – by bike
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Janet Siddall helps African families through 'Grandmothers to Grandmothers.'
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David Gessner offers a modest 'Green Manifesto'
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Peace Corps teachers return to Sierra Leone
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Stockpiling seeds today saves plants for the future
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Kufuor helps transform Ghana into a model for African agriculture
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Debra Ruh makes high-tech available to the disabled
Her company, TechAccess, works with businesses large and small to ensure the disabled can use their products.
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