South Africa's anti-apartheid hero, Nelson Mandela, spent 67 years making the world a better place, sometimes with nothing more than a prison uniform and his own two hands. Now a day has been set aside for inspiring the rest of the world to "Make an Imprint", creating a new humanity using their own two hands.
his Afghanistan girls' school successfully prepares students for University but without any roof, walls, library, or many books... until now. Thanks to an American charity, A Little Help, this school in Badakhshan province now has an entire library from grades one through twelve, lab equipment to help teach Biology, Chemistry and Physics, and several huge tents to keep the students out of the rain and hot sun.
A Complaint Free World, written by a Missouri pastor whose sermon about the negativity of complaining has become a worldwide phenomenon. He urged people to keep track of how much they complain by moving a little purple wristband from arm to arm each time they groused, and almost six million bracelets have been given out worldwide to date.
After airline passengers were told an engineer was needed to fix a technical glitch on their flight, thus causing an 8-hour delay, one of the passengers announced he was a qualified engineer and offered to help.
Project 100 in Detroit is randomly distributing $100 dollars to 100 people over 100 days. Believing that even the smallest act of kindness can bring significant change, the founders of Project 100 want to make a positive impact by sparking a renewed sense of hope in the community.
California Democrat Judy Chu became the first Chinese-American woman elected to the U.S. Congress, winning a largely Hispanic district with 61 percent of the vote in a special election to replace Hilda Solis who was appointed as Labor Secretary.
As a little girl in Venice, Giorgia Boscolo was forever bugging her father to let her ride with him in his gondola. While her sisters played with dolls, she would beg him for a turn with the oar.
DoGood is a free iPhone app made by a group of University of Michigan students who hope to spread random acts of kindness and green sense.
Soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan will taste a slice of home on July 4th after the delivery of 28,000 pizzas from UNO Chicago Grill.
One of the highlight of the Wildlife Safari in Winston, Oregon is a pay-for-service elephant car wash.
This year's "No Barriers Festival" in Florida includes eighteen disabled veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan who are gathering along with hundreds of other amputees for four days of classes in sailing, scuba diving and rock climbing.
With no funding except for art donated by authors and comic book artists, a website has raised more than $101,000 to restore the Cleveland house where young Jerry Seigel laid away at night and conceived of a man of steel, Superman.
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