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Monday, January 11, 2010

Wynona Ward: "I just said this has to stop"

     Abused as a child and a witness to domestic violence later in life, Wynona Ward finally said "this has to stop."  So she did something about it: went to law school, graduated at 48, and now provides legal assistance to victims of abuse in rural Vermont through the non-profit she founded, Have Justice Will Travel.  "I don't want them to have to go through what I did as a child", she says.  Her story just like that of the people I profiled in Being the Difference.  She went through challenging circumstances and later used her own experiences to help others facing the same problem.  Check out this video of Wynona Ward, CNN's hero of the week and someone who is being the difference.

Posted at 06:33 AM in People |

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