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EU

The European Union’s website recommends the consumption of vegetables instead of meat to curb climate change.

LEADERSHIP

Ms. Susan Bucher  Ashley Capps

In Florida, USA a resolution introduced by House Representative Susan Bucher was passed which states that children are entitled to a healthy food each day and encourages plant-based meals.

LEADERSHIP

Jens Holm, a Swedish Member of the European Parliament

Jens Holm, a Swedish Member of the European Parliament, urges the United Nations and its agencies to incorporate vegetarianism as a way to achieve a hunger-free world. 

Leadership

United States

The United States will provide an additional $1.25B for global food aid.

LEADERSHIP

The United Kingdom

The United Kingdom will donate more than US$935 million to Pakistan over the next three years to help alleviate poverty, improve health care and education.

Compassion

ITFC

The International Islamic Trade Finance Corporation (ITFC) agrees to donate to Mauritania US$700 million in food aid.

Compassion

India

India will donate an additional USD$450 million in aid to Afghanistan that will go toward development projects.

Leadership

Turkey

Turkey is donating €30 million to Kosovo for 2009-2011.

Compassion

Kuwait

Kuwait becomes the first Arab country to donate US$80 million to a trust fund to support the ongoing Palestinian Reform and Development Program.

Compassion

UN

Uganda will be among a number of recipients who will benefit from a USD$50 million fund allocated by Unitaid, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), and the World Health Organization to stop mother-to-child transmission of HIV.

Leadership

Japan

Japan will donate US$7.1 million of rice to Liberia, with an additional assistance in food aid that will total approximately US$50 million by October 2008.

Leadership

winner

A winner of the Formosan (Taiwanese) Super Lotto gives nearly half of  the US$14.9 million jackpot to his church and a charity organization.

Compassion

Japan

Japan will contribute US$15 million to Zambia for groundwater development, infrastructure improvement, sanitation initiatives, and health education.

Leadership

winner

A winner of the Formosan (Taiwanese) Super Lotto gives nearly half of the US$14.9 million jackpot to his church and a charity organization.

Compassion

Turkey

Turkey donates US$3.5 million for humanitarian aid to nine African countries through the World Food Program.

Leadership

The Netherlands

This is the second time the Netherlands government has given a grant of US$2.1 million to the Women’s Rights Advancement and Protection Alternative in Nigeria to establish six centers for women’s counseling and training.

Leadership

Norway

Norway pledges US$2 million to help with the reconstruction of the Palestinian refugee camp Nahr el-Bared in Lebanon.  

Compassion

Czech

The Czech Republic allots up to 5 million crowns, approximately US$311,546, for humanitarian aid to Georgia.

LEADERSHIP

Taiwanese Ambassador to the Gambia, Richard Shih

His Excellency Richard Shih donates 100 tons of rice seed to Gambia to help with the nation’s efforts in attaining food self-sufficiency.

Compassion

King Abdullah II

Students from Palestinian camps are to receive benefits from Jordan’s national nutrition program under the order King Abdullah II.

Leadership

Brunei Darussalam

Brunei has declared that smoking is forbidden under Islamic law because it is considered as self harm.

Leadership

Sweden

All cat and dog fur, or products containing these furs, will be ban from Sweden.

Leadership

Tăng Ngọc San

Tăng Ngọc San created a natural herbal remedy to help eliminate the craving for opium.

Inventor

Australia

The Parramatta City Council in Sydney, Australia has declared its entire Central Business District alcohol-free.

Leadership

Zack and Thomas Eller

Brothers Zack and Thomas Eller, age 13 and 9, respectively, from Georgia, USA have raised about US$6,700–US$1,700  from their dog biscuit business, and USD$5,000 from an award – for Aiding and A-Petting animal rescue group.

Compassion

Israeli scientists

A team of Israeli scientists has developed a gel made of brown seaweed that, when injected into the heart, helps block further tissue damage in patients who suffer a heart attack.

Invention

Columbia and Richmond counties - USA

School systems in Columbia and Richmond counties are prohibiting all tobacco on school property 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

Leadership

Ben La Brot

Dr. Benjamin La Brot has gathered a crew of medical personnel to provide free medical services on a 2-year voyage around the world.

Compassion
+ 10,000 US $
(TENKS)
 

Anothony DiJulio

Anthony DeGuilio donated his kidney to save a life and started a chain of kidney donations that saves the lives of four people.

Compassion

"el Sistema" of Venezuela

The State Foundation for the National System of Youth and Children’s Orchestras of Venezuela (FESNOJIV) is a government-funded organization that helps children achieve their full potential through classical music education.

Leadership

PetCo Place

PetCo Place in Hollywood, California may be the first shelter in the US to accommodate displaced residents and their animal friends while they search for jobs and housing.

Compassion
+ 10,000 US $
(TENKS)

Mary Hughes

For sixty years, Nurse Mary Hughes provides clothing and blankets to the homeless and victims of house fires. 

Compassion

The Coalition to Unchain Dogs

In the past 17 months, the Coalition of Unchain Dogs built fenced yard enclosures free of charge to provide animal companions with more room to move about in their yard.

Compassion

Debbie Herot

Moved by a heartbreaking letter left  by a homeless and disabled vet who was unable to care for his ailing animal friend, Debbie Herot and the staff at the Chatoak Pet Medical  Center nursed the dog back to health.

Compassion
+ 2,000 US $
(2 KS)

Brian Jones

Brian Jones is regarded as mentor and teacher to hundreds of people in South Africa and other continents for his work in saving injured and endangered animals at his Moholoholo Wildlife Rehab.

Compassion
+ 5,000 US $
(5 KS)

Thomas Weller

Known as the San Diego Highway Man, Thomas Weller has voluntarily helped over 6,000 stranded motorists along the highway since 1966.

Compassion
+ 5 HOUSANDS
(5,000) US$

Iran's Diamond Eye

Iran’s “Diamond Eye” treats eye-related disorders without surgery and any major side effects.

Invention

Mr. Philip Hall

British inventor, Philip Hall, creates the Vantage Waste Processor that successfully turns waste into bioethanol and biodiesel using a non-pollutant and odor-free technology.

Invention

MIT researchers

Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute Technology (MIT) discover a simple, efficient, and affordable way to create pollution-free electricity from solar power.

Invention

Dirk Van Essendelft

Chemical engineer Dirk Van Essendelft proposes a new economical way to turn CO2 into sand and a common mineral similar to chalk.

Inventor

Calera Inc.

California-based company Calera Inc. has come up with a technique to use CO2 to make cement, one of the best techniques there is for carbon capture and storage.

Inventor

Dog, La China

When La China, an eight-year-old dog, found an abandoned baby in the field, she carried him to her litter and kept him warm until he was discovered by her human caretaker.

Hero

Dr. Qolam-Ali Beski

For the last 30 years, Dr. Qolam-Ali, a renowned vegan Iranian physician, is helping to raise awareness about global warming and the importance of adopting a vegetarian diet.

Hero

Ms. Karin Ridgers

British actress and presenter Karin Ridgers founded Veggie Vision, an online TV station, to promote the vegetarian lifestyle.

Hero

Teresa Cheptoo

Sixteen-year-old Teresa Cheptoo, a Nobel Prize winner in the children’s category, donated her winnings, approximately  USD$ 13,500 to a center that fights Female Genital Mutilation.

HERO

Organic Athlete

With over 500 members worldwide, Organic Athlete is dedicated to providing information and support to vegetarian, vegan, and whole-food athletes, showing that athletes don't need meat to compete.

Hero

Sherylee and Sheriece Ryder and Lavina Grant

By raising the alarm, primary school students - Sherylee and Sheriece Ryder and Lavina Grant – save a man from being killed in house fire.

Hero

Dr. Malcolm Coulthard

A dialysis machine designed and built by Dr. Malcolm Coulthard and nurse Jean Crosier saves the life of baby Millie Kelley who was too tiny to use the conventional NHS machines.

Hero

Rahni

By waking them up with her baking, Rahni, a 7-month-old German shepherd saves her human caretakers from a house fire.

Hero

Dog, Isabella

Isabella takes over nursing and taking care of 3 tiger cubs when their mother did not want to do it.

Hero

Napoleon

Despite being a poor swimmer because of his breed, Napoleon the English bulldog jumped into a lake in Michigan, USA to save four kittens from drowning.

Hero