An inspiring example of someone who truly shows the face of
Christ to others 
I've tried to find other secular news sources
for this other than Wiki, but seems that a lot of media are
not really interested in telling good news (for a
change)...
http://www.ask.com/wiki/Maggie_Gobran
http://www.worldmag.com/articles/6876
Maggie Gobran
(also known as Mama Maggie) is a Coptic Orthodox Christian from Egypt,
who founded the
charity organization the
Stephanus-children in Mokattam, outside Cairo in Egypt.
Since 1985 she
has ministered to the poor, sick, orphaned, and dying people
(especially children) who are an integral part of collecting and
processing Cairo's
municipal solid waste in Zabbaleen.
Maggie Gobran was part of the
upper class in Egypt and before Christmas 1985 had
not been in Zabbaleen, an Egyptian community of mainly Coptic Christians who collect and dispose of the city of
Cairo's
waste by feeding it to their pigs.
She was handing out Christmas gifts presented to poor children and leave again.
But at one of the garbage mounds she saw something moving, and
began to dig. She found a small child, living buried in garbage.
Afterwards, she found another one. So she chose to devote her life
to the children. Before she started working in Zabbaleen, she worked at the American University in Cairo.
Thousands of children and families
are helped through the organization she founded. Kindergartens, which has between 250 and 400 children aged two
to six years. Here, the children get food, health check, vocational
education, camp residence, and hope. She is known for
wearing white clothes,
and she says it's because the pure heart will see
God. She is a deeply
religious women and she state, "Every time I touch a child, I
touch
God. For an honor! A
foretaste of heaven. I am the one being blessed by the children,
it's not the other way. I have received so much and can never
repay".
Gobran have several times been
nominated for the Nobel Prize, and been compared with Mother Teresa. "I am very inspired by Mother Teresa, but I am not worthy to wash her feet.", Maggie
Gobran stated.
