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Saturday, September 19, 2015
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The woman who designed 3D printed prosthetics for Derby the dog
The woman who designed 3D printed prosthetics for Derby the dog - who was born with deformed front legs - enabling him to run and play.
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Sunday, September 13, 2015
Saturday, September 12, 2015
Chinese Father Carries His Disabled Son 18 Miles To School Every Day
A parent’s devotion to their children can sometimes be one of the strongest natural forces in the world, and Yu Xukang, a proud and loving father in Yibin county in China, is no exception. Every day, he travels a total of 18 miles to ensure that Xiao Qiang, his disabled 12-year-old son, can go to...
Friday, September 11, 2015
Two Friends Turned Their Van Into A Mobile Laundromat To Wash Clothes For The Homeless
Two ingenious 20-year-old good Samaritans created a brilliant way to help the homeless – they’ve outfitted a van as a mobile laundromat to give the homeless the opportunity to clean their clothes safely.
The two creators of the Orange Sky Laundry project, Lucas Patchett and Nicholas Marchesi, started...
Thursday, September 10, 2015
Wednesday, September 9, 2015
Blind Man And His Armless Friend Spend 10 Years Planting 10,000 Trees In China
A blind man named Jia Haixia and his friend, a double amputee with no arms named Jia Wenqi, have spent more than 10 years replanting trees to revive the once-barren environment around Yeli Village in northeastern China.
Haixia was born blind in one eye and lost the other in 2000 in a work-related...
Tuesday, September 8, 2015
What Happens When People Realize How Their Loved Ones Rate Them
We are often our own harshest critics, but that can sometimes hold us back. By asking people’s loved ones to rate their level of “success,” this social experiment shows us that we often seem more successful to others than to ourselves.
The video, which was created by Strayer University and Aplus, is part of a campaign to literally redefine the word “success” by petitioning the Merriam Webster English...
Anti-war activist Jane Rose Kasmir
Anti-war activist Jane Rose Kasmir, 17, holds a flower above a guard's bayonet during the 1967 March on the Pentagon to protest the Vietnam W...
When this police officer learned the Day Center was closed, he bought food for 20 people who had come there to eat.
A police officer handcuffs himself to a woman threatening to jump and saves her life.
This is the heart-stopping moment a police officer saves the life of a suicidal woman by handcuffing himself to her and throwing away the key. The desperate woman had climbed to the top of a bill board on a concrete wall in Beijing, China. But her plight quickly attracted the attention...
Krishnan Was An Award-Winning Chef, He Quit His Job To Serve Homeless And Mentally Disabled.
Krishnan was an award-winning chef with Taj Hotels, Bangalore and was short-listed for an elite job in Switzerland. After witnessing a distressing incident in 2002, he quit his job and began feeding the homeless and mentally disabled in his hometown. He said, "I saw a very old...
The community who not only helped clean racist graffiti off this mosque, but also posted messages of support.
Dozens of community members in Cold Lake, Alta. came together on Friday afternoon to clean up a local mosque after it was vandalized.
The vandalism at the mosque, which included smashed windows and racist messages, was discovered Friday morning. The words "Go home" were written multiple times...
The 12-year-old boy who offered free hugs at a Ferguson protest
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — An African-American boy holding a "Free Hugs" sign stood crying in front of a police barricade at a Ferguson rally in Portland. A white police officer motioned for him to come closer. The officer then asked the boy for a hug — and they embraced, the boy's anguished face streaming...
The commuters who worked together to free a man wedged between a train and the platform.
Commuters and railway staff teamed up to free a man by rocking a train carriage to free his leg after he became trapped between the platform and a carriage on Wednesday morning. The man was boarding a rush hour train at Stirling station, 9km northwest of Perth, Western Australia, at 8.50am...
The #Illridewithyou Campaign
The #Illridewithyou campaign that aimed to help Muslim commuters feel safe in the wake of the Sydney sie...
Officer is reunited with suicidal man he talked down from from the Golden Gate Bridge eight years ago
A San Francisco man who almost took his life eight years ago by jumping off the Golden Gate Bridge has been reunited with the hero who saved his life.Kevin Berthia was perched on the iconic bridge ready to take a fatal leap on March 11, 2005, when he heard the voice of California Highway Patrol officer...
Every Sunday, This New York Hair Stylist Gives Free Haircuts To The Homeless
Mark Bustos is doing something great for the homeless population living on the streets of New York city. On Sundays the hairdresser takes the day to roam the streets of the concrete jungle he calls home, always in search of the next homeless person that needs a haircut but can’t afford to come into...