A change for the better.0:16
Mahatma Gandhi once said, be the change you want to see in the world.0:27
This is exactly what these 3 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
Liz has shared the stage with world leaders like Mikhail Gorbachev and the Dalai Lama as an international speaker.0:47
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.1:10
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.1:24
And through dedication and determination, she eventually won a scholarship to a top university.1:26
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
A few years ago, economics graduate Mark was the manager of an organic food company.1:48
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.2:09
He moved into an old caravan in the countryside.2:16
Put in solar panels for power, and started growing his own food and washing in a river.2:19
When he didn't have enough homegrown 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 Man: 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.2:46
Narayanan Krishnan was an award-winning chef who was about to take up a top job in Switzerland.2:49
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.3:07
Every day, Narayanan now personally prepares and hands out 400 simple, tasty hot meals to the homeless.3:12
He also carries a comb, scissors, and a razor so that he can give haircuts and shaves.3:20
Narayanan sleeps in Akshaya's kitchen, but he says he's enjoying his life.3:26
He has shown what one person can achieve when they set out to change the world.3:32
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