Change Makers: People Making a Difference. Dave Scott

Let's Find Common Ground

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🗓️ 23 December 2021

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

In a world of crises and catastrophes, we look at a handful of extraordinary problem solvers: People who use their passion and personal experience of life to make a difference. Dave Scott, Engagement Editor at The Christian Monitor, tells us about remarkable individuals who use generosity, hope, and innovation to inspire others to uplift their fellow human beings. With origin stories and personal anecdotes, we hear how listening and trust are essential elements in constructive change and finding common ground. This special year-end episode includes excerpts from the Monitor's new podcast, "People Making a Difference". We hear about what a 12-year-old can teach us about empathy and kindness; how the Sewing Machine Project has repaired thousands of lives around the world, and why LavaMaeX is providing hot showers, pop-up care villages, and radical hospitality for homeless people in California. Co-hosts: Richard Davies and Ashley Milne-Tyte.

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0:00.0	From polarization to COVID, climate and rising inflation, we're facing all kinds of problems right now.
0:07.5	Today, we share stories of people who are responding in a positive way. Problem solvers.
0:18.1	This is Let's Find Common Ground. I'm Ashley Miltite.
0:21.9	I'm Richard Davies. This year-end episode is unusual. We're spotlighting another series of podcasts.
0:29.9	They're called people making a difference from the Christian science monitor.
0:35.2	We speak with the papers engagement editor Dave Scott about these stories of extraordinary
0:40.0	individuals, people who are stepping up, overcoming great obstacles and using generosity,
0:45.8	passion and innovation to help others. What they have in common is that they are all loving
0:54.1	their neighbors. They're out there finding ways to make the world better by reaching out to
0:58.9	other people. They do that in a very unique way, whether it's Daisy Hampton, the 12-year-old
1:05.6	New York City, who's addressing bullying by setting up a mentorship program, the bullying of disabled
1:12.1	kids. In her case, she'd grown up going to school basically through fifth grade in what's
1:17.6	called an ICT program and it's a program where you have disabled kids mixed in with regular kids
1:25.1	and they have a special ed teacher and a regular teacher and so she grew up watching these kids
1:29.9	becoming best friends with them and then she started to see as they got older, some of her friends
1:35.0	were bullying some of the other friends. And here's Paul's of what Daisy Hampton told you
1:40.6	on your podcast. It was sad to see how some some my own friends who had known for a while making fun
1:48.0	of my classmate with the disability. Yeah, that really especially raised my awareness of the
1:55.6	exclusion in school communities for kids with disabilities and I really wanted to make others
2:03.4	more aware of it. And she did. Daisy and her mom founded including you. An organization set up
2:11.2	for kids to mentor other kids who experience learning or physical disabilities.
2:18.0	Given that the media tends to cover catastrophes and conflicts and its focus is often on what is
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