Here are this week’s uplifting headlines.
1-5 Uplifting Headlines of the Week
1. Billionaire MacKenzie Scott donates $15m to help provide glasses to farmers in developing countries | Donation is believed to be the largest single donation towards helping solve the problem of uncorrected blurry vision. – Source
2. A 33-year-old made more than 1,000 Wikipedia bios for unknown women scientists. – Source
3. Pride of lions airlifted from Ukraine to Colorado in “biggest-ever warzone rescue of lions”. Seven adult lions and two cubs were transferred to the Wild Animal Sanctuary which is located near Springfield, Colorado, on September 29. – Source
4. Vaccines to treat cancer possible by 2030, say BioNTech founders. – Source
5. Dolly Parton donation strategy: ‘I just give from my heart’. – Source
6-10 Uplifting Headlines of the Week
6. Good news for Greece as renewables fully power the country for the first time. – Source
7. First female chief in Malawi, South Africa ends child marriage. – Source
8. Antibiotic found in potato disease thwarts fungal infections. – Source
9. “It’s really a miracle”: Boy who spent first 1,000 days of life in hospitals goes home. – Source
10. Rare plant thought to be extinct discovered on Kamehameha Schools land on Hawaiʻi Island: Maui Now. – Source
11-15 Uplifting Headlines of the Week
11. The number of poor people in India fell by about 415 mn between 2005-06 and 2019-21, a ‘historic change’: UN. – Source
12. CVS cuts the cost of menstrual products in 12 states with “tampon tax”. – Source
13. Inside the Global Effort to Keep Perfectly Good Food Out of the Dump | Around the world, lawmakers and entrepreneurs are taking steps to tackle two of humanity’s most pressing problems: hunger and climate change. – Source
14. Man plays his saxophone through 9-hour, “very, very complex” brain surgery to remove the tumor. – Source
15. ‘Woman who can smell Parkinson’s’ helps scientists develop the test, Scientists drew on 72-year-old Scot’s rare condition to help identify people with a neurological condition. – Source
