So we are bringing this segment back due to popular demand. Some people complained that this segment tended to be long, so we thought to go back to our basics and just provide short and simple facts, in this case just the headlines with sources pointing to the actual news article. Please comment if you like this new format.
1-5 Uplifting Headlines
1. Comedian Eddie Izzard Just finished his 27th marathon in 27 days for charity (one for each year Nelson Mandela was in prison). – Source
2. More than 800 Boko Haram hostages rescued by Nigerian army. – Source
3. Italy changes law to make all supermarkets give unsold food to needy. – Source
4. Starbucks will donate all of its unsold food to America’s needy. – Source
5. Facebook post inspires mother to donate a kidney to a complete stranger, a police officer whose kidneys were working at 13%. After a perfect match, the surgery went ahead and both people are doing very well. – Source
6-10 Uplifting Headlines
6. Son takes his paralyzed father with him to university and cares for him while he studies. – Source
7. The US now uses less water than it did in 1970. – Source
8. One of Cleveland’s finest eateries is almost completely staffed by ex-offenders. They are provided 40 to 50 hours a week in free training. More than 90% of the graduates are now employed and none have gone back to prison. – Source
9. A homeless man from San Francisco, who pointed police toward two Orange County inmates who had escaped from jail, will get the lion’s share of a $150,000 reward set up for their successful capture. – Source
10. Jimmy Carter says he no longer needs cancer drug treatment. – Source
11-15 Uplifting Headlines
11. There wasn’t a dry eye in the house when the Marin Humane Society reunited a rescue dog with her missing puppies. – Source
12. Iran bans use of wild animals in circuses. – Source
13. Former homeless man donates $10,000 to a High School after two students from the school helped him in a blizzard giving him clothes, a jacket and money for a train ticket to visit his father. – Source
14. Maryland cops bring lost elderly woman with dementia home by telling her they were simply on a walk. – Source
15. Couple took in an 80-year-old woman who was living in the woods, and cared for her through death. – Source
16-20 Uplifting Headlines
16. Dog saves the life of sleeping boy with type 1 diabetes. – Source
17. CEOs of Corporate Angel Network give 50,000 free flights to cancer patients traveling to treatment. – Source
18. 11-year old entrepreneur turns lemonade stand into million dollar deal with Whole Foods. – Source
19. Pope washes feet of Muslim migrants, says ‘We are brothers’. – Source
20. A couple finds Purple Heart at goodwill, uses social media to find owner’s family within days. – Source
21-25 Uplifting Headlines
21. Lamb adopts orphaned rhino and baby elephant. – Source
22. French woman aged 91 gets PhD after 30 years. – Source
23. An entire airport in India pays nothing for electricity thanks to solar power. – Source
24. Using a communication aid, a 16-year-old boy is able to speak for the first time and starts with ‘Hello Mum.’ – Source
25. 5-year-old Texas girl saves mother from drowning. – Source
Still the best topic…. but let’s say that this time that each listed story is too short of a read. I tend to scroll through and click on sources of stories that really intrigue me. Now I have to go on nearly all of them for more information 🙁
Good to see some positive stories.I hope you can keep it going.
Not sure about the rest of you, but I’d be furious if I helped someone, only to receive no reward while a school that didn’t help that person at all got $10,00 (granted, the school did use it to reward other acts of humanitarianism)