Barbara Hillary became one of the oldest people to trek to the North Pole last month at the age of 75. The New York woman, a former nurse and community activist is believed to be the first black woman on record to accomplish the feat, eight years after her battle began with lung cancer.
For helping to protect and rescue countless thousands of fellow refugees of genocide, a Congolese mother of ten was named "America's Greatest Hometown Hero" and awarded with a $50,000 charitable contribution and a new Volvo every three years for the rest of her life...
Fifteen years after a brutal civil war, Greg Carr, an American philanthropist believes the key to revitalization in Mozambique, one of the poorest spots on the planet -- and possibly a model for African development -- is a long-forgotten park called Gorongosa.
A Florida sailor is being honored for his outstanding mentoring and role modeling while overseas. He set up a 300-plus DVD library, held regular poker and horseshoe tournaments.
"Before Virginia Tech, before Columbine, there was Paducah, Kentucky. A 1997 school shooting there left Missy Jenkins Smith paralyzed, but not without hope."
Even though it was not their own generation involved in Nazi crimes against Jews, two dozen German youth worked in Israel donating a year of service in libraries, nursing homes and community centers.
After his wife died a 96 year-old man decided to write. A big-time editor described it as 'unputdownable.
An 83-year-old Kansas woman spent 30 years driving open roads, picking up aluminum cans, in a single-handed effort to raise enough money to build a community swimming pool for the children in her home town of Eskridge.
Airline Ambassadors International has bettered the lives of more than a half million children around the globe thanks to 590 flight attendants...
A woman is honored in Poland for her part in a secret organization that rescued thousands of Jews from certain death by smuggling them out of the country in baskets and ambulances. Though tortured, the Catholic lady wouldn't talk to her captors.
Japanese billionaire, Genshiro Kawamoto, cried as he presented the keys to a multimillion-dollar home to a low-income single mom with 5 kids. "Her family will live there rent-free, but must pay utility bills. He plans to open eight of his 22 Hawaiian homes to poor families for ten years." (By AUDREY McAVOY, Associated Press – […]
A New York City cab driver from Bangladesh spent hours laboring to track down a rider so he could return a bag of diamond rings that she'd left in his trunk.
Sonia Waters has raised funds from family and friends to provide a village in Malawi with a primary school (equipped with books, pencils, and a daily meal for all pupils); a new kindergarten and playground; a village vegetable garden, a goat-keeping enterprise and a women's co-operative.
A deer was trapped on an icy pond and couldn't get its footing. Then, a chopper pilot had the bright idea of using the blades of his helicopter blow the deer to the shore. Sure enough, it worked!
Sandra Aguebor, an activist known to Nigerians as the Lady Mechanic, is a mother of two who rose from humble beginnings to national prominence creating a thriving enterprise that trains disadvantaged women in Nigeria to learn a promising trade
He hates begging, but no one will give him work. He was happy to see me as I'd bought breakfasts that I had bought for him over the years.
A minimum wage-earner in the Philippines returned a bag of cash found on his watch and was rewarded for his honesty...
2 Busloads of Passengers in Spokane, Washington were left "tingling all over" after an anonymous woman boarded buses and handed each rider an envelope containing a card and a $50 bill.
In my 10 years in the service I have never seen or heard of anything like this. He is an absolute lifesaver. He turned his car around sped up to the truck and climbed inside it to pull the hand brake.
Living Compassion made this video to show you the faces of the first 100 children they are feeding and schooling in far away Zambia.