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Giraffes Award

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The criteria for the Giraffe award is that a person or group must take on significant personal risks, either physical, financial, or social. They need to take a risk that makes the world a better place. Also, Giraffes need to act out of caring. They need to make things better and their activities should be healing. Giraffes need to act above and beyond the call of duty. Ordinary people doing jobs they are trained to do and getting paid may be brave and caring, but Giraffes should do something extraordinary. They should go beyond their job descriptions. I believe the Giraffe Award should go to Case A. Betty Washington took a physical risk by putting an antidrug rally in a parking lot frequently visited by drug dealers with other community

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