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“What does the world need me to do?”

When Mark Bergel, 51, asked himself that question, his answer was to start��, a nonprofit in Silver Spring, Md., that provides everything from furniture to����and clothing to support those in need. Now, 13 years later, Bergel, who serves as the organization’s executive director,��is on a mission: End����in ������Ƶ.

As I sort and fold donated baby clothes in the organization’s huge warehouse, Bergel,��a����shares his message of ending poverty by connecting with one another.

“As one of us goes, so go all of us,” says the former ������Ƶn University sociology professor. “If a child lays his head on a dirty, cold floor tonight, that’s my kid. And a part of me doesn’t feel whole when somebody is suffering like that and I can do something about it.”��

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