Here are this week’s uplifting headlines.
1-5 Uplifting Headlines of the Week
1. Homeless man hands out resumes get hundreds of job offers. – Source
2. American in China who accidentally paid 100 times his US$9.60 cab fare gets his money back after cabby tracks him down. – Source
3. Walt Disney Company to eliminate plastic straws and more by 2019. – Source
4. Kenyan woman saves 15,000 young girls from female genital mutilation. – Source
5. In 2011, Sonia Vallabh was handed a genetic report that contained a death sentence: she carried the gene for a prion disease, fatal familial insomnia. She quit her job, got a Ph.D. and is now working with Ionis Pharma to develop a potential drug for her condition. – Source
6-10 Uplifting Headlines of the Week
6. No more slurping through plastic straws in San Francisco; plastic straws, stirrers, and toothpick ban ordinance passed to take effect starting July 1, 2019. – Source
7. Academic writes 270 Wikipedia pages in a year to get female scientists noticed. – Source
8. Colorado children praised for returning a wallet stuffed with $700 in cash to its owner. – Source
9. 36-year-old Alabama man with Cerebral Palsy experiences the beach for the first time in his life. – Source
10. 17-year-old from the southwestern Ontario Canada farming town of Essex was invited onstage to play guitar with the Foo Fighters. – Source
11-15 Uplifting Headlines of the Week
11. Firefighters have saved 72 pigs from suffocating in a slurry tank during the biggest animal rescue operation ever carried out in Northern Ireland. – Source
12. A brave young Italian woman fought a centuries-old Sicilian tradition allowing abusers to marry victims to restore their honor. – Source
13. Thai cave boys ordained as Buddhist novices to honor dead rescuer. – Source
14. New Zealand brings in paid domestic violence leave in the world first. – Source
15. Make perfume, not war: Afghan farmers switching from poppies to roses enjoy the sweet smell of success. – Source
