Collecting and distributing 900,000 pairs of used shoes over the past decade has changed Mona Purdy's life. She is now the executive director of Share Your Soles, a charity which has no religious or government affiliation but has helped the needy in at least 29 countries and several U.S. states.
A journalist and CNN corporate sales executive quit her job to pursue a Masters thesis that would help Malawi farmers use video to teach neighboring villages about ways they have learned to adapt to climate change and preserve their livelihoods in the wake of new flooding.
Her generosity in life was legendary: Ruth Lilly, the last surviving great-grandchild of pharmaceutical magnate Eli Lilly, died Wednesday night at 94. ... Over the course of her life, Ms. Lilly gave away the bulk of her inheritance, an estimated $800 million.
A Harvard-educated man who moved to Braddock, Pa. in 2001 to work on an AmeriCorps project and ended up running for mayor four years later, strives to revive a town that once boasted 25 shoe stores, 14 jewelers, 51 barbers and 53 restaurants, but today has none.
The top commander at Fort Hood is crediting a civilian police officer for stopping the shooting rampage that killed 13 people at the Texas post. Lt. Gen. Bob Cone also hailed a young Army nutritionist who helped wounded victims. Both women heroically intervened despite being shot.
Four men have received a flurry of attention since Wednesday when word got out how the four inmates came to the rescue of Deputy Kenneth Moon, who was being strangled by another inmate.
Tommy, a volunteer firefighter was driving down route 81 in Virginia when he saw a Subaru strike the guard rail and go up in flames. He said, "At that point after seeing exactly what happened, I didn't feel that there was gonna be any survivors."
How miraculous that Kathy Stein found herself caring about a young man who tried to rob and kill her. She'd started down a "tumultuous journey on a path less chosen â€" one toward forgiveness instead of rage..."
The poor West African country of Guinea-Bissau didn't have a working fire engine. Some Americans bought some used trucks and shipped them half way round the globe to people they didn't even know.
Seven weeks before Christmas, a modern day Christmas miracle was taking place in South Lyon, Michigan, in the home of a five-year-old boy in hospice, with a very short time to live.
Norman Borlaug, 95, who died Saturday night in Dallas, is credited with saving 1 billion lives from famine. His work creating high-yield crop varieties and improving agriculture in the Third World earned him a Nobel Prize. "Many experts credit the green revolution with averting global famine during the second half of the 20th century." (Read […]
President Obama on Thursday named the 16 recipients of the 2009 Presidential Medal of Freedom. America's highest civilian honor, the Medal of Freedom is awarded to individuals who make an especially meritorious contribution to the security or national interests of the United States, world peace, cultural or other significant public or private endeavors.
An anonymous Tube rider in London's Underground found and turned into authorities a purse containing more than $3,300 in cash. The bag, left by Sri Lanken tourists, also contained passports and credit cards.
President Barack Obama recognized the accomplishments of actors, activists, scientists and humanitarians by awarding each one a Presidential Medal of Freedom in a White House East Room ceremony yesterday.
Today we spent the morning going through our personal belongings. We were looking for items to give away, free, at a local park. Not just any items but things people really needed.
Through mock interviews, speaker training, and clothing makeovers, Frank Kelly's Project Vacant Streets prepares homeless citizens in Miami for new jobs.
Two college rowers decided to travel 2000 miles in a self-designed rowboat from Cleveland to Key West, to work on Habitat homes along the way.
An attorney in the racially-charged trial of the Jena-6 rescued the youngest of the incarcerated youth, bringing him to New York to live with his family.
In 2003 while the US armed forces were invading the Iraqi capital, a Zululand conservationist undertook a wartime rescue of the Baghdad Zoo and all its animals. In his book, Babylon's Ark: The Incredible Wartime Rescue of the Baghdad Zoo, Lawrence Anthony describes how he, along with the zoo's former deputy director and several brave workers, risked daily danger to save the bears, lions, tigers, monkeys and birds.
Two boyhood friends who know what it's like to struggle in lower income families, together made it through medical school and now, 60 years later, they've come together again to provide free medical care to their community.