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Working together to help their community, the Rotary clubs in Slidell, Louisiana, helped renovate and reopen more than a dozen social service facilities damaged by Hurricane Katrina.
Working together to help their community, the Rotary clubs in Slidell, Louisiana, helped renovate and reopen more than a dozen social service facilities damaged by Hurricane Katrina.
After the Japanese government ordered the people of Minamisoma to stay indoors after the nearby nuclear plant started leaking, the 25,000 isolated residents who remained were facing starvation. The mayor posted a plea for help on YouTube and received hundreds of boxes of food from individuals, and truckloads of relief goods from nonprofit organizations.
A few months ago, the grandson of one of the survivors of the Bataan Death March traveled from Northern Virginia to Japan with an old photograph in his hand. It was a grainy picture of a young Japanese boy who helped save his grandfather's life.
The American Red Cross announced that the public has generously donated $120.5 million to help the people of Japan following the March 11 earthquake and tsunami. "The American public and we at the American Red Cross have not forgotten the generosity of the Japanese people when we suffered tremendous loss after the 9/11 attacks and, more recently, after Hurricane Katrina.
A growing band of British economists, politicians and academics is thinking seriously about happiness — and they are putting theory into practice by starting a "mass movement for a happier society." Action for Happiness launched Tuesday in London, encouraging hugging, meditation and random acts of kindness.
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More and more, young women are not only starting their own businesses, but they are also achieving enormous success doing so. Take recent start-ups like Her Campus, Rent the Runway, and LearnVest: all three lucrative businesses were founded by women in their early twenties.
Two long-lost friends are emotionally reunited after 24 years in the wake of an important postcard getting lost in the mail, placing their relationship on hold.
The Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma is one of the many groups that leapt to the aid of communities across six states where homes were destroyed by tornadoes, providing free meals and water, assistance with clearing drives and roadways, and support for other vital needs of families.
Hundreds of people whose lives were upended by last weekend's tornadoes, are receiving help from the kind people who have stepped up before being asked.
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