Here are this week’s uplifting headlines.
1-5 Uplifting Headlines of the Week
1. Britain has broken its record for the longest continuous period without generating electricity from coal. – Source
2. Disney heir calls on the company to give 50% of exec bonuses to lowest-paid employees. – Source
3. Abusers and human traffickers will often force victims to get tattoos as a way to exert control. A Wisconsin woman is giving survivors a fresh start by removing them for free. – Source
4. Running out of children, a South Korea school enrolls illiterate grandmothers. – Source
5. Stop & Shop employees got a pay raise and kept their healthcare/retirement benefits after more than 30,000 employees went on strike for 10 days, while the company lost millions of dollars. – Source
6-10 Uplifting Headlines of the Week




6. Gandalf star Sir Ian McKellen has marked his 80th birthday with a free show for 80 people aged 80. – Source
7. A treatment that has restored the movement of patients with chronic Parkinson’s disease has been developed by Canadian researchers. – Source
8. Friends say synagogue shooting victim rescued kids from gunfire. – Source
9. Seaweed pouches will replace thousands of plastic bottles at the London marathon. – Source
10. Woman with cerebral palsy opens her own CrossFit gym after beating expectations and cancer. – Source
11-15 Uplifting Headlines of the Week
11. Denver may become the first US city to decriminalize psychedelic mushrooms. – Source
12. “Faith in humanity restored”: Internet praises man and his friends who invited an elderly woman who was eating alone to join them for a meal before discovering she was widowed and would have celebrated her 60th wedding anniversary the next day. – Source
13. Beeping Easter eggs help visually impaired kids join in on the hunt. – Source
14. Shelter dog who loves his food bowl gets forever home and gets to keep the bowl. – Source
15. Rhino poachers sentenced to 25 years each setting a new precedent, South Africa. – Source