Doctor Brings Caring on Campus With Mobile Medical Van for Homeless Teens
This doctor delivers health care to poor and homeless teens who may otherwise never see the inside of a doctor's office.
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Unconditional Acceptance: What Do You Do When You Meet The Homeless Face To Face?
A woman with her family meets two homeless men in a fast food place. She feels an overwhelming sensation to buy them lunch. Everyone in the place learns a lesson.
Instead of Offering Pocket Change, This Man Changed Homeless Vet's Life
A homeless veteran's request for something to eat led to a job, a new home, and thousands of dollars in help for other homeless vets.
Doctor Practicing "Street Medicine" Named Top Hero of 2015 (WATCH)
Meet the Pittsburgh doctor who routinely treats the homeless, their injuries and illness, and hands out medicine.
Young Grad Leaves Wall Street to Rescue Food For Those in Need
This 24-year-old hero left his job at J.P. Morgan to start a nonprofit that has saved 100,000 pounds of good food for delivery to homeless shelters in NYC.
NYC Mom Brings Vegan 'Chili on Wheels' to Homeless
A vegan family, Michelle Carrera, and her 4-year-old son Ollie, realized the city's soup kitchen meals all contained meat, so the two started bringing their warm homemade vegan chili to those in need, calling it 'Chili on Wheels'.
Teen Builds Excellent Tiny House, Donates to Homeless
After an arduous three-and-a-half-years building it in her California backyard, Kendall Ronzano is donating the "tiny home" she started at age 16. Last week, it was pulled on its portable trailer to Austin, Texas where it will provide shelter to a homeless person or family in a 27-acre transitional homeless community.
Tattoo Shop Owner Dedicates Years to Helping the Homeless and Addicted
The owner of Inkslinger's Tattoo Shop has quietly become an inspiration to his Massachusetts community. Billy Pfaff's shop is often filled with donations he has collected for the homeless -- coats, blankets, sleeping bags, tents and gift cards -- which he personally hands out. Why does he care? In 2010 he was in their shoes.
WS Post Inspires 73 Shoeboxes Filled With Goodies for Homeless
When a Nevada graphics manager saw a Good News Network post in November about a woman in Canada who runs a shoebox project for women in shelters, something in the article stuck with her. For a month she said, I kept reading it and thought, 'Maybe I could do something similar.' She decided to fill up as many shoeboxes for the homeless as she could -- with a goal of filling 50 boxes for Christmas.
French Baker Gives His Store to Homeless Man Who Saved His Life
A French baker is giving his shop to a guy living on the street who saved his life after he was knocked out by carbon monoxide poisoning.
Calif. Homeless Service Restores Dignity With Work and Volunteerism
In 2008, Yvonne Nair took $25,000 from her retirement account and started Saffron Strand, Inc. to provide training and mental health support aimed at healing the trauma and returning the homeless to the workforce.
New Orleans Soldier Home From Afghanistan Uses Deployment Money to Help Homeless
Sgt. Austin Winton Lumpkin, a soldier who returned home to Gretna from Afghanistan, used his deployment money to help the homeless. While he was home on leave, he purchased products to fill more than 200 bags, which included a new pair of socks, personal hygiene products, water, and snacks. "The reason I wanted to do this gift-giving project was to show people that you don't have to have a lot to give a little," said Lumpkin.
Winnipeg Woman Marks One Year of Baking, Giving Bread to Hungry
Over the last year Althea Guiboche has run out of money and run out of baking supplies, but she has never stopped giving away free bread and soup to the city's homeless every week. The aboriginal mother of seven was even forced by the province to become trained in food-handling if she wanted to continue, but now she has an official certificate and she cooks inside a commercial kitchen at the community center -- all toward the goal of becoming more compassionate and giving.
Homeless Man Turns in Lost Backpack Stuffed With $42,000 - And Donations Pour In
A homeless Good Samaritan turned in a lost backpack stuffed with nearly $42,000 in cash and travelers cheques he found Saturday at a Dorchester mall. After returning the bag to its rightful owner, the Boston police honored Glen James yesterday with a citation for his "extraordinary show of character and honesty."
Man Turns to Police and Finds Help Instead of Committing Another Crime
A man taught to hate cops his whole life turned to them to keep from committing a crime, and was stunned at their response.
The Barber in the Park: Man Called Joe Helps the Homeless and Inspires a Community
For the last 25 years, the man known as Joe the Barber has been offering homeless people in Hartford, Connecticut free haircuts in the park. They walk away sporting a new look, but also with new pride. For payment? He'll take a hug.
UPDATE: 'Golden Voice' Ted Williams - Once Homeless Now Giving Back
Do you remember the story two years ago about the homeless man with the golden voice who was discovered pan-handling for change on a cold Ohio street? It turns out, he didn't fall back into old habits and end up on the street again as some had worried. Williams now helps the homeless and addicted whenever he can. He maintains an apartment and continues recording voice-overs for Kraft Mac and Cheese commercials.
Winnipeg Bus Driver Gives Homeless Man the Shoes Off His Feet
A Winnipeg Transit bus driver is being hailed a Good Samaritan after stunned passengers watched him give the shoes off his feet to a man who was walking barefoot on the sidewalk.
Anonymous Wealthy Couple's $30-million Gift to Help Vancouver's Homeless
A $30-million philanthropic gift from an anonymous wealthy couple is allowing the City of Vancouver to reopen Taylor Manor as a home for street people with complex mental health issues.
Elderly Woman Leaves her $400,000 Condo to the Homeless
Before she died last September, Lelia Boroughs, 84, told her attorney she had no family to whom to leave her estate. So she crafted her will to leave her $400,000 condo to the city to turn into a homeless shelter.
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