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Oregon Girl Starts Website to Feed Dogs Displaced by Foreclosure

A young Oregon girl has started an online movement to feed some unexpected victims of a failing economy, abandoned dogs. Like FreeRice.com, FreeKibble.com, donates a small amount of food every day that you come to the website and click. A Bow-Wow Trivia question appears every day.

Third Graders Helping to Stop Childhood Hunger

Baking cookies and selling brownies don't seem like solutions that could end childhood hunger, yet, thanks to the Great American Bake Sale Campaign, 5.3 million nutritious meals and snacks were served to low-income children paid for by proceeds from bakes sales all across the country.

Poor Family in Mexico Given New Home and New Start From San Diego Group

Today, Rosario's life changes forever. Today, the mother of six becomes a homeowner. Tonight, she will not sleep on a dirt floor. Today means her family will soon be reunited. On this cloudy day in April, International Relief Teams and Project Mercy, a local nonprofit dedicated to improving the living standards of families in the […]

The 9 Orphan Siblings Who Raised Themselves Rather Than Split Up

When their mother Mary died during childbirth in a Charlotte, North Carolina hospital there was no one left to raise her nine children. The only realistic option appeared to be to divide up the siblings and ship them off to relatives or foster parents, but 19-year-old Kayle Mingo decided to fight to keep their family together. 35 years later a reunion showed how successful they were.

Shopping Mom Gets Touching Note From Stranger "I'm a Good Parent"

A stranger came up to a woman in Windsor, Canada, while she was shopping with her children, and gave her a very touching note that made her day. She was in tears while she described the story saying that the stranger "assured me that I am a great mother even though sometimes every parent questions themselves."

Dad with Cleft Palate Adopts Baby Just Like Him

Brian Pierce felt an instant connection with a particular baby in China when he saw her adoption photo. "We opened her profile and saw that beautiful face looking back at us. We wanted to scoop her up right then and hold her, but she was on the other side of the world," says Brian. Even […]