How to Save the World - by Alison Thompson
She s been to nearly every place on the globe where people are in need.
Now, she tells you the
five places that need your help the most.
That morning I zoomed through another set of red lights on my Rollerblades,...
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How to Save the World - by Alison Thompson
She s been to nearly every place on the globe where people are in need.
Now, she tells you the
five places that need your help the most.
That morning I zoomed through another set of red lights on my Rollerblades, heading downtown in
Manhattan.
I had a pretty hefty first-aid kit and a small bottle of perfume in my backpack.
People streamed toward me, disoriented, their hair and clothes covered in soot, holding cell phones,
trying to get a signal.
I pushed forward.
Soon I was alone in a blizzard of ash.
The ground rumbled,
and I dove under a UPS truck for cover.
The second tower of the World Trade Center had just collapsed.
I grew up in Australia, my dad a preacher, my mum a nurse.
I had been a nurse’s aide at Mum’s
hospital in my teens.
More recently in New York I’d been a freelance filmmaker.
That day,
September 11, 2001, I skated downtown, thinking that I could help somehow.
Without really knowing it, I had also skated into a new
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