People Who Are Making a Difference in the World

volume WHO ARE MAKING A divagation IN THE WORLD Thurday 12/03/09 1. Im sorrel Doughty. 2. And Im Barbara Klein with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. Today we break ab prohibited five various(prenominal)s around the initiation who ar making a difference. They argon making the world a check be considerableings by encourageing pot in special ways. 1. Our inaugural individual who is making a difference is a refugee from Burma. Thousands of tidy sum flee Burma each category to escape poverty, oppression and civil fight. umteen of them choose to stay in Thailand. Cynthia Maung is a Burmese doctor who operates a microscopical public wellness ticker around the Thai border with Burma.She is making a difference in her community by providing services that be non operational to most mass in this area. 2. some(prenominal) bulk are waiting at the public mendth center. M others and their children wait in line to get vaccines to protect them a toleratest unsoundnesss . In a nonher line, parents with newborn babies wait for documents that render their babies were born in Thailand. The documents take the place of birth certificates. Thai formalizeds do non recognize these people because they are refugees. still Doctor Cynthia Maung does. 1.Doctor Cynthia, as she is called, fled Burma in night clubteen eighty-eight after a armament campaign against people who demonstrated for nation and justice. She says she joined with the demonstrators. She says people started disappearing or fleeing to the border when Burmas military seized power. She unyielding to settle near the border to cypher for political change. 2. In a dwarfish building, Cynthia Maung started performing operations and helping women confine birth. She cleaned her instruments in a rice cooker. She in any case trained childly volunteer health workers.Today, those workers treat people for landmine injuries and many a(prenominal) diseases. Her health care center receives donati ons of property from non-governmental organizations and contrary governments, including the linked States. 1. Doctor Cynthia dupes a teeny m bingley go a long way. Each year, one ascorbic acid fifty dollar bill thousand people coiffe for treatment. Those who can, wages less than one dollar. 2. Doctor Cynthia lives bordering to the health center. She says the workers there do not only treat diseases. They also instill young people who go lynchpin and support health activities in their communities.For example, the center trains volunteer health workers who go venture to work in the ethnic Karen and other areas of Burma. Some of the volunteers are occasion patients who are now helping others. Doctor Cynthia says young people should be taught not to note alike victims. Instead, she says, they should see themselves as people who can change and improve their situation. 1. Theary Seng is a human rights activist working to heal her country, Cambodia. As a child, she lived th rough the hold of the Khmer Rouge during the nineteen s pointties.During four old age in power, the Khmer Rouge was responsible for the deaths of at least one million, five hundred thousand Kampucheans. Theary Sengs parents were among those killed. After the decrease of the Khmer Rouge, she escaped to Thailand and then went to the United States. She go to law school and became a lawyer. 1. Now, Theary Seng is sand in Cambodia, supporting human rights as the head of the Center for Social Development. She is a critic of corruption and abuse wheresoever it exists in Cambodia and around the world.At a new-fangled demonstration in Phnom Penh, she attempted to trust flowers to honor those killed in the civil war in the Darfur area of Sudan. only if Cambodian government officials prevented her from doing so. 2. Theary Seng takes a special beguile in the Khmer Rouge Tribunal. The court is scratch line to take legal action against antecedent Khmer Rouge leaders for their crimes. She serves as an official counterbalanceative for the victims. 1. She also has a telly show. It seeks to find the countrys following(a) generation of young leaders.Theary Seng says her work is not to do anything big but to be a common citizen in her country of origin where she suffered in the past. THEARY SENG And now, Im victorious that suffering, and shaping it into hope, and trying to work with individuals who had not the time and space to heal that Ive had. 1. William Saydee is making a difference in his country, Liberia. In Monrovia, the capital, the good for you(p) of typing mixes with the sound of cars in the street. Mister Saydee is a clergyman and former accountant. (SOUND) He now works as a typist and teacher. He is teaching fired Liberians how to grapheme.The students do not pay him anything. angiotensin-converting enzyme of the students is Isaiah Thomas. He says he is learning to type because he wants to work for an international company. 2. William Saydee say s he wants to help young people gain a skill to succeed. He says it is the crush he can do to help Liberia re-build after years of civil war. Mister Saydee earns money by typing contracts and other documents, like resumes. A resume is a enumerate of a persons tuition and work experience. It can be utilizable when a person is touching for a job. (MUSIC) 1. Comic have artist Robert pushchair is making a difference in New York City.He uses his art to help people understand the disease AIDS. Many children and even adults in the United States enjoy meter understanding gay retains. Superheroes in comic books take a leak unusual abilities. They use their abilities to help people and save the world. Like most superheroes, Mister walkers characters abide special powers. For example, one superhero can see in the dark. unrivaled can lift more than three hundred tons. Another can come back from the dead. Also, like most superheroes, his characters have to deal with trouble. The se superheroes all have H. I. V. , the computer computer virus that causes AIDS.Mister Walker says some members of his family died of AIDS when he was a child. That gave him the idea to create a comic book called O Men. It includes nine characters living with H. I. V. The characters are men and women who represent different races and socio-economic groups. They also were infected with the virus in different ways. Mister Walker says he wanted to fight depressing images committed with the disease. ROBERT WALKER Its not a black disease. Its not a white disease. Its not a gay disease. Its a disease of humanity that lacks awareness. 1.Gerry Gladston is the co-owner of Midtown Comics in New York City. He says many comic books have substantial political, social and educational messages. Mister Walker wheel spoke to many H. I. V. and AIDS organizations in researching his comic book. He says he wanted to make the stories realistic as well as factual. 2. Yohannes Gebregiorgis is an Ethiop ian-American who returned to the land of his birth to make a difference. Yohannes, as he is known, became an American citizen many years ago. only he gave up his life as a childrens librarian in San Francisco, California.Yohannes says he was have-to doe with that Ethiopian children had no books. He give tongue to most schools in Ethiopia do not have libraries. There are approximately no childrens books in any of Ethiopias many languages. So Yohannes started the donkey Mobile Library to provide children with their first books. His group brings books to children who have none. YOHANNES GEBREGIORGIS Most kids we have noticed holding a book upside down. We have taken pictures of those kids. But later on we find out that those kids learn how to use the book, how to flip the pages and to look at the pictures and then gradually to read the stories in the book. 1. More donkey quick libraries are planned, with money from groups in the United States. Donated English-language books have begun arriving in Ethiopia. Also, Yohannes has established a publishing company to produce books in languages that local children can read. His first book was published in three languages. It is a re-telling of an old folk story well-nigh, what do you think? A boy and his best-loved animal a donkey 2. In the beginning, children came to the mobile library mainly because of the donkeys. But Yohannes discovered that what really excited the children was the books.He dreams about taking his donkey mobile libraries to more Ethiopian towns and villages. After all, there are millions of other children who want to learn to read. 1. This program was written by VOA correspondents and adapted by Shelley Gollust. Our producer was Mario Ritter. Im Bob Doughty. 2. And Im Barbara Klein. You can transfer audio and read scripts on our network site, voaspecialenglish. com. 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