Australian Nick Vujicic was born with no arms and legs

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Australian Nick Vujicic was born with no arms and legs. It didn’t stop him from surfing, swimming, playing golf and soccer. He is also a motivational speaker who has addressed over three million people in over forty-four countries.

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Jessica Cox was born without arms in the US, but this disability never became a hindrance in her life. She became world’s first licensed armless pilot and proved that wings are not needed to fly.

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Scott Neeson, former head of 20th century Fox International left Hollywood to save children scavenging in Cambodia’s garbage dumps. He sold his mansion, Porsche and yacht for destitute children in Cambodia.

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Pastor Lee Jong-rak attached a ‘baby box’ in the church for parents to deposit their handicapped or unwanted babies, instead of abandoning them on the road side. (Pic: chinadaily.com.cn)

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Nando Parrado was one of the sixteen survivors of Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571, which crashed in the Andes Mountains on October 13, 1972. After spending two months in minus zero degree temperature, he along with Roberto Canessa decided to climb through the Andes Mountains to find help. After 10 days of trekking, they were spotted by a farmer who helped them. The rescue team saved the remaining stranded people with Parrado’s help.

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Liz Murray was born with poor drug-addicted parents who later contracted with HIV. Murray’s mother died when she was only fifteen. She was homeless, but didn’t give up. She received New York Times scholarship and got admission into Harvard University. Now she is a motivational speaker.

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100 year old Dobri Dobrev, a Bulgarian, donates all the money he gets from begging to orphanages that can’t pay thier bills.

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Munawar Shakeel is a cobbler by profession who has authored five award-winning books.

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Victoria Leigh "Vicki" Soto was an American teacher who was murdered in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting. After the gunman entered the school, Soto hid her students, then died trying to protect them, and has since been hailed as a hero.She is a posthumous recipient of the Presidential Citizens Medal.

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Iqbal Masih was a Pakistani child who became a symbol of abusive child labor in the developing world. At the age of 10, Iqbal escaped his slavery, after learning that bonded labor was declared illegal by the Supreme Court of Pakistan. He helped over 3,000 Pakistani children that were in bonded labor to escape to freedom and, he made speeches about child labour throughout the world. Iqbal was fatally shot in Muridke on April 16, 1995, shortly after returning from a trip to America. He was 12 at the time.

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