Leslie Clark buys beadwork and embroidery made by the women in a Niger cooperative that she founded. She sells the nomad art alongside her paintings in her Ojai, Calif., gallery. In addition, she founded the Nomad Foundation to help bring health care and education to the wandering Niger nomads.
After jumping out of the airplane, strapped together in tandem, a skydiving instructor and his student feared the worst when their parachutes failed to open properly. Plummeting at 40 mph and 500 feet from the ground, Hartsock showed himself to be a courageous hero when he used the control toggles to rotate their position and place his body under hers to take the brunt of the fall.
These two lovable law enforcement officers stepped up to the plate, getting their hands dirty with a little bit of babysitting.
On the troubled South Side of Chicago where only 37% of young black men graduate high school, the Urban Prep Academy is an oasis of achievement. The school recently announced its entire senior class of 107 young men had been accepted to four-year colleges.
23 years ago a woman who was real estate agent issued a challenge to a first grade class of underprivileged students in Oakland. Stay in school, do the homework and graduate, and she would pay for their college education.
Despite her cover girl looks, expensive jeans and designer sunglasses, Suzie Krabacher followed her dream to take care of children no one else wanted, building orphanages, schools and clinics in Haiti.
John Finn, the oldest living Medal of Honor recipient, whose modest demeanor and lifestyle belied his legendary status as an American hero, died Thursday at age 100. He was believed to be one of the first Americans to take up arms against the Japanese when they bombed the air base at Pearl Harbor, securing a .50-caliber machine gun mounted on a training stand in an exposed area of the parking ramp, which was under heavy machine-gun fire from Japanese planes, continuing for more than two hours despite being hit 21 times by bomb and bullet fragments.
Jodie Nelson was disappointed that she only raised $6,000 in advance of her 40-mile paddle for breast cancer — until a whale joined the cause. During the nine hour journey from Santa Catalina Island to Dana Point, CA, a 30-foot minke whale swam alongside her 14-foot board, accompanying the surfer for two hours as she […]
Narayanan Krishnan was a bright, young, award-winning chef with a five-star hotel group, but the sight of an old man starving changed everything. Now 29, he has served more than 1.2 million meals over the last 2 years -- breakfast, lunch and dinner every day -- to India's homeless and destitute.
Five visionaries between the ages of 18-30 from Ethiopia, India, Nigeria, the Philippines and the U.S. have been selected to receive the Rolex Award for Enterprise in the new Young Laureates Program, for their passion and conviction to overcome challenges in the areas of science and health, applied technology, exploration, the environment and cultural preservation.
The Carnegie Hero Fund Commission this week named 22 individuals as recipients of the Carnegie Medal, given throughout the U.S. and Canada to those who risk their lives to an extraordinary degree while trying to save the lives of others.
Meredith Iler is a powerful persuader won't rest until every severely injured hero in uniform who needs a handicapped-accessible home gets one. Since 2005, as chair of the non-profit organization, Helping a Hero, she's used her powerful contacts with luminaries in the world of politics and industry to raise money to build 25 custom-built homes.
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