Here are this week’s uplifting headlines.
1-5 Uplifting Headlines of the Week
1. Pakistan begins colossal tree planting campaign – a staggering 10 billion trees will be planted starting now in order to combat climate change using 60,000 workers who have lost their jobs because of the coronavirus. – Source
2. Kroger buys and redirects dairy farmers’ surplus milk to Feeding America food banks. – Source
3. Italy reports the lowest number of cases and deaths in almost 2 months. – Source
4. “Reinfected” patients were actually false positives due to ‘dead’ virus fragments, refuting reinfection with Corona. – Source
5. Greta Thunberg has donated a $100,000 prize she won from a Danish foundation to the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) for use against the COVID-19 pandemic. – Source
6-10 Uplifting Headlines of the Week
6. Morocco has increased youth literacy from 60% to close to 100% within a decade. – Source
7. The sheriff fired her because she’s a lesbian so she ran for his office. She demolished him. – Source
8. Scientists and Researchers in Senegal have developed a $1 testing kit for COVID-19 and are exporting them by the millions to other African countries. – Source
9. Meet the 101-year-old who was born on a ship during the Spanish flu and just beat coronavirus. Angelina Friedman survived cancer, miscarriages, internal bleeding, sepsis, and now not one, but two pandemics. – Source
10. Sudan to outlaw female genital mutilation. – Source
11-15 Uplifting Headlines of the Week
11. Morgan Stanley will no longer finance oil and gas exploration and development in the Arctic. – Source
12. New Zealand reports 0 new Coronavirus cases for the first time. – Source
13. Commercial whaling may be over in Iceland: Citing the pandemic, whale watching, and a lack of exports, one of the three largest whaling countries may be calling it quits. – Source
14. Michigan governor announces a tuition-free educational program for essential workers. – Source
15. LA becomes the first major city in the USA to offer free testing to every resident, even those with no symptoms. – Source