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On many nights, David Corner awakens to the sound of his cell phone’s ringtone. The screen displays a long string of numbers that he often doesn’t recognize, but he rarely fails to pick it up. Sometimes, that means taking a call at 5:30 a.m. Or midnight. The recipient of the 2008 Greater Tacoma Peace Prize never turns off his cell phone. He can’t. The call could come from an aid worker in a port city in Haiti seeking advice on how to get a shipping container past officials. Or a missionary in Liberia fretting about the country’s decision to raise import tariffs. Or a distant voice announcing the dawn of a new disaster, like when a massive earthquake shook China’s Sichuan province in May. And a need always exists somewhere in the world. Corner and his nonprofit organization, The Gathering Project Inc., help by shipping... [read full story]
