A change for the better.0:15
Mahatma Gandhi once said, be the change you want to see in the world.0:27
This is exactly what these three people have done.0:32
The changes they made took their lives in completely different directions and helped them to make the world a much better place.0:35
A. Liz Murray Liz has shared the stage with world leaders like Mikhail Gorbachev and the Dalai Lama as an international speaker.0:44
It's hard to believe that at the age of 16, she was homeless and sleeping on park benches and underground trains.0:54
Liz's parents were drug addicts and couldn't look after her and her sister.1:01
She says, we ate ice cubes because it felt like eating.1:05
We split a tube of toothpaste between us for dinner.1:09
When their mother died, their father moved to a homeless shelter and Liz and her sister were out on the streets of New York.1:13
At this point, Liz decided to try to turn her life around.1:20
She went back to school and through dedication and determination, she eventually won a scholarship to a top university.1:24
Since Liz graduated From Harvard in 2009, she has been speaking at events to teenagers about staying away from drugs and gangs.1:32
She wants them to understand that they can reach their goals whatever they have had to face in their lives.1:40
B. Mark Boyle A few years ago, economics graduate, Mark was the manager of an organic food company.1:46
He has always been passionate about the environment and social issues, but he felt that he wanted to do even more.1:54
He argued that if we grew our own food instead of buying it, we wouldn't throw a third of it away while millions around the world go hungry.2:01
So Mark gave up his job and decided to prove that we don't need money to survive by living without it for a year.2:08
He moved into an old caravan in the countryside, put in solar panels for power and started growing his own food and washing in a river.2:16
When he didn't have enough home grown food, he went into the forest to pick wild food like berries.2:25
Mark enjoyed the year so much that he has been living without money since then.2:31
Recently he's written a book, the Moneyless A Year of freeconomic Living and hopes to use the profits to create a whole community that lives without money.2:36
C. Narayanan Krishnan Narayanan Krishnan was an award winning chef who was about to take up a top job in Switzerland.2:46
Then while visiting his parents at home in India, he saw an old man starving under a bridge.2:55
He says, I fed that man and decided that this is what I should do for the rest of my life.3:01
He gave up his job and set up a charity called the AKSHAYA Trust every day.3:07
Narayanan now personally prepares and hands out 400 simple, tasty, hot meals to the homeless.3:13
He also carries a comb, scissors and a razor so that he can give haircuts and shaves.3:19
Narayanan sleeps in Akshaya's kitchen, but he says he's enjoying his life.3:25
He has shown what one person can achieve when they set out to change the world.3:32
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