Over the past four years, Rick Lennert and Adrianne Dartnall have made a major difference in the lives of hundreds of people in South East Asia, all in the name of Adrianne's daughter, Danielle, who was killed by a drunk driver five years ago.

Although Danielle was only twenty-one when she was taken from them, her life will continue to have a major impact on the world through the work being done by Rick (her step dad) and her mom.

For the first five months after Danielle's accident, Adrianne didn't want to leave the house. Eventually she started going for long walks and that led to a decision to rent their house, move onto their boat, and eventually to sell all of their vehicles and use the money to travel and hike in Europe - They needed to get away to heal.

A chance meeting and conversation in an Irish Pub led them to India where they were told, "people look at life and death differently."

A few weeks later they were in an ashram for street people opened by Mother Teresa some years earlier. That year they had five hundred dollars of their own to invest and another $200 sent to them by friends. They chose to paint the daycare and provide some much-needed toys.

The next year, with a little more help from friends, they had $900 in their jeans when they traveled to Phnom Penh, Cambodia.

After much searching for a place to volunteer, they found a squatter's village for land mine, Agent Orange, and Khmer Rouge victims in Siem Reap. (Agent Orange is a poison used to defoliate trees during the Vietnam War making it more difficult for North Vietnamese soldiers to hide -- The Khmer Rouge massacred millions of people in Cambodia)

That year they painted the school and supplied hundreds of books, pencils, pens, and other school supplies.

As they left on their third, fourth, and fifth trips, more and more friends (and strangers) chose to support them so they were able to make a larger impact with each visit.

Here are just of few of the things they have been able to do: build a shelter at the children's hospital at Siem Reap so that clothes for 1,000 children can be dried during the monsoon season; buy an operating room table and special surgery light for a hospital in Burma; renovate, paint, provide new beds and mosquito nets in five recovery rooms at the same hospital; buy several bikes for kids so they can go to school; purchase a sewing machine for a single mother of four so she can earn a living for her family; provide a single father of six, a landmine victim, with a cart and a supply of books so his family can sell books instead of his daughter making a living for the family by begging.

There are far too many other inspiring success stories for me to tell here, all done in the name of Adrianne's daughter, Danielle.

There's no doubt, Adrianne and Rick lead an exciting life. There's also no doubt that they would much prefer to have their old life back with Danielle; however, they have shown us how you can take a tragedy and turn it into a triumph.

If you would like to help out, you can reach Adrianne and Rick at adrianneandrick@hotmail.com. They could definitely use some used musical instruments if you have any.

By the way, did I tell you that as well as doing the hands on work, Rick and Adrianne pay all of their own expenses and find their share of the money needed to create their many miracles?

What do you need to motivate you to make a difference with your life?

You can contact Rick and Adrianne at adrianneandrick@hotmail.com.