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Nominees for the 2007 Richest People List |
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 Annie Wignall, Founder Care Bags for Kids
Care Bags for Kids was started by Annie Wignall when she was 11 years old. Annie and her volunteer team makes up “care bags” filled with useful and fun things for kids all over the world. Her simple idea has expanded from a home-based project helping a few local kids into an award-winning cross-country 501(c) (3) nonprofit. The charity has no paid staff and is run entirely by volunteers (which means that all donations go directly back to helping me help kids in need). Over 100 Care Bags are filled every month and hand-delivered by over 100 National and International distributing agencies and individuals, and help from thousands of American donors and volunteers (ranging in age from 2-92!) Care Bags have brought smiles, hope and tangible gifts of love to over 10,000 deserving kids worldwide. Annie Wignall says, “I know we can’t help everyone, but with your help we can make a difference, one Care Bag, one child at a time.” CareBags4Kids.org
 Ed Artis, CEO of Knightsbridge International.
Ed Artis coordinates the solicitation and physical delivery of food, medicine, medical equipment and supplies to some of the most dangerous locations in the world. His organization has delivered over 40 million dollars in aid, rescued hundreds of children and brought many from warn torn areas to the US for what is often life saving medical treatment. He served as a Combat Medic in the Dominican Republic and Vietnam and was decorated for valor and wounds received in action. He has taken hundreds of trips to areas like Afghanistan , Albania / Kosovo , Cambodia , Chechnya , The Southern Philippines and Rwanda . He has received numerous citations, accolades and awards for his more than 35 years of humanitarian efforts. For more information, please visit kbi.org.
 Barbara Gilbert, Supermom and Super Fund Raiser
Holding down three jobs, being a single mother of four, a foster parent of three, and a part time student, didn't stop Barbara Gilbert from raising over $70,000 to build houses for those in need in Jamaica. What started out as a project to build one home in Jamaica, has turned into a concerted effort to build villages for some of the poorest people there. Eighteen families have benefited from Barbara’s generous commitment of time and money. She has personally paid for three houses to be built while raising funds for fifteen more. As a present to each of her children, she has “built” houses in their honor and her youngest, the first in her family to graduate from college, has been with her on two trips to Jamaica to participate in helping the people there. Read More
 Bea Salazar, Founder Bea’s Kids
The simple act of taking out the trash changed Bea Salazar’s life. Bea, a high-school dropout and disabled single mom of five children, took in a five-year old boy attempting to eat bread from a dumpster on a blistering hot day in June 1990. Immediately she found herself feeding hordes of children left alone during the summer days as she realized that these kids were not getting the school breakfasts and lunches they normally received during the school year. Today, the 501 (c) 3 Bea’s Kids organization serves more than 120 pre-K to high school children and their families annually in two Centers located in low-income apartment complexes with after school curriculum-based tutoring, personal development programs, parenting programs, SAT preparation, Back-to-School Bash, summer camp and more. Read More |
 Cathy Eldon, Founder of the Creative Visions Foundation
The Creative Visions Foundation was inspired by the life of Dan Eldon -- artist, adventurer and activist - who was killed in 1993 at age 22 while covering the conflict in Somalia as a photojournalist. Kathy Eldon started the 501 (c) (3) organization to support "creative activists" like Dan who use media, technology and the arts to inspire positive change. Kathy has a multi-media production company that has produced a feature film and published seventeen books. Kathy’s foundation has raised well over a million dollars to fund produce media that matters. Kathy says, “When Dan was killed, I was absolutely driven by what Oprah calls survivors mission.” Rather than live in guilt despair, and anger, Kathy choose to pour her energy it into something that was really positive. With her daughter, Kathy got involved in Journalist at Risk, helping freelance photographers get insurance, and post traumatic stress counseling. Her documentary “Dying to Tell the Story” launched a new career which allowed her to take her anger, hurt and guilt and turn it into a positive mechanism to help others. |
Dr. Hector Sulit
Dr. Hector Sulit, a respected ophthalmologist, is recognized for his professional expertise, leadership ability and humanitarian service to the community. He has a busy private practice in California and serves as co-investigator at the Jules Stein Eye Institute, UCLA School of Medicine. But he spends his vacations operating on cataracts and other vision problems in make-shift medical clinics in remote villages, saving the poor and underprivileged from a life of darkness. |
Dr. Rodolfo Jao
Dr. Rodolfo Jao is most proud of his dedicated community service. Aside from working with Dr. Sulit and heading the medical team serving the neediest of the needy on the island of Marinduque, Philippines, Dr. Jao organizes and participates in fundraising campaigns to help hurricane and typhoon victims both in the US and the Philippines through the American and Philippine Red Cross. In his spare time, he gives free lectures and counseling on HIV and communicable disease to school children and communities in Northwest Indiana and free medical services to local elementary, high school and Indiana University students. He serves as President and advisor to various Filipino Medical and Professional organizations in Northwest Indiana and Chicago. He has distinguished himself not by graduating valedictorian, completing his medical degree with distinction and continuing to win many awards but by using his medical expertise to help the needy. |
Dr. Josie L. Olympia
Dr. Josie L. Olympia, named by the Consumers Research Council of America as one of America's Top Psychiatrists and Distinguished fellow of the American Psychiatric Association, spends her vacations helping poor people fight depression and lead relatively happy, productive lives. She spends a major portion of her income sending deserving youth to nursing schools in the Philippines. She is currently involved in a project to build libraries in remote villages where access to reading materials are non-existent. Dr. Olympia believes that poverty can lead to mental illness which can worsen the economic circumstances of the person and their families. |
Pierre Leger
Pierre Leger founded Blueprint Relief Foundation to relief disaster victims of their mortgage payments as they try to rebuild their lives. Blueprint collects funds from fellow Mortgage and Real Estate Professionals, Mortgage Lenders, Title Companies, and private citizens and then redistributes these contributions. Working with Rondi Lund, another person who strongly believes in giving first, Pierre created a dynamic team dedicated to paying it forward. They both spent the month of February 2007 away from their families to help the Florida tornado victims.
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