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...problem. Instead, Wood seeks to make the community a stakeholder by encouraging local contributions. For example, in Nepal, families brought 50-kg bags of grain which were sold off, raising $1,500 to add to Room to Read's $8,000. Wood, 41, a former Microsoft executive, combines the passion of a crusader with the calculation?and ambition?of a CEO. The lofty goal: 20,000 schools and libraries worldwide by 2020. Says Wood: "There is no better long-term gift you can give a child than the lifelong gift of education...
...boys were given books and English lessons, but when the aid agencies weren't looking, the Sudan People's Liberation Army (spla) gave them AK-47s and uniforms and sent them into battle, first in Ethiopia and then in southern Sudan. Jal, a 9-year-old officer with the passion of a freedom fighter, rarely saw the face of his enemies, who mostly attacked the child fighters with gunships and shells. "Young people are so brave when they go to fight," he says. "Before, you are afraid, but when you shoot you get that strength. What they don't know...
...They’re very similar in terms of their passion for football,” said defensive coordinator Kevin Doherty of the two freshmen. “They have tremendous intensity...
...After Sunday’s game, the Furman coach—who had been getting on [Altchek] all game, came up to him,” Kerr said. “He said to him, ‘Hey big guy, I like your passion for the game...
...it’s that passion for service, that commitment, to be of use, to give back, to make a real difference in the world...that’s what makes Barack Obama for me and for so many others a hero,” said Kagan, who was a colleague of Obama’s at the University of Chicago Law School...