This is a true story of an ordinary man named Liam Ryan who beat huge odds against stage 4 brain cancer. Not only does he have one of the most astonishing and heart lifting survival stories, but he has abundant determination, resilience and spirited generosity. Liam is undeniably the most inspirational man I've ever known.
Growing up in 13 different foster homes and the pain of physical and sexual abuse left Tina Thomas feeling empty and incomplete. But Tina is a survivor and no longer can be defined by her past. Fate intervened in her teen years when, despite never having broken the law, she was assigned a probation officer, Mary Beth Ryan. That summer, Ryan asked Tina to be a peer mentor at a special camp for abused girls. It changed her life forever.
A Pittsburgh man whose wedding was called off decided to turn the lemons he was dealt into "LemonAID", a charity fundraiser for an organization that provides free surgery in developing countries.
After years of smoking crack with her mother, shooting heroin and living on the streets, a 29-year-old woman completed an incredible journey this week graduating with honors from a nursing degree program.
With every can or bottle he collects and returns, Tyler Laviolette takes one step closer to fulfilling the dream of his parents, who wanted him to live a normal, independent and productive life despite being born with cerebral palsy and diagnosed with autism.
A four-month-long walk on the ancient Santiago de Compostela offers young offenders a different pathway -- a route to redemption. Since 1982 more than 350 teenagers have walked the 2,496 kilometers along one of Christianity's most important pilgrimages -- at the end of which lies their own freedom.
How did 47-year-old Zhang Xin go from working in a sweatshop to becoming one of the richest women in the world? She got her start on Wall Street, but missed her homeland and returned to become a real estate mogul, building the futuristic buildings that mark the distinctive skyline of Beijing.
Ali Abbas, who had lost his home and entire family during a botched US bombing raid in Iraq when he was 12, lost both his arms and suffered serious burns. But today, since being fitted with artificial arms in a British Hospital, the 21-year-old lives in prosperous south-west London, is attempting to set up a charity for limbless children, and has married a childhood friend.
For 30 years, Gerard Thomas was among the 70,000 American veterans sleeping on the streets every night. As a paranoid schizophrenic he was in and out of prison and mental institutions for decades. These days, the 62-year-old devotes his life to helping homeless veterans.
After nearly 15 years of looking at the bright side as publisher of the Good News Network, I instinctively knew over the last 5 days that no matter how much hardship was thrown at me, it would only make things worse to complain. With each mishap or misfortune, celebration was warranted because inevitably "something good" showed up.
A former bus driver, who in her senior years works as a bus monitor, sat patiently through ten minutes of relentless and brutal bullying by middle school kids on her route, as a video camera rolled. The video went viral and an online social media community so sympathized with her that they raised money to send her on a vacation to the tune of hundreds of thousands of dollars.
In 1995, Grayson Gilbert had been diagnosed with a cancer so rare in children that the doctors were entering uncharted territory when prescribing aggressive chemotherapy and surgery. At 22 years old, the Maryland boy survived so long, he now has a charity to help ailing children meet their heroes.
Judges of the Eye Remember photography contest in Canada had no idea Tara Miller had any vision problem whatsoever, let alone having only 10 percent vision in one eye. The blind commercial photographer won the contest with her stunning landscape entitled, Fortuitous Twilight.
Nothing stands in the way of this young cricket player going international – not even the trials of losing both his arms in an accident.
When a business mentor agreed to help out by hiring a homeless teen, the kid did such great work, he became the mentor and paved the way for more jobs.
More than 30 years after being abandoned as a newborn at San Francisco State University, this woman walked the aisle in cap and gown.
At 67, after two prison stints and so many arrests he's lost count, a former drug dealer donned a cap and gown as a graduate of the prestigious Columbia University.
Tattoos are now removable through laser treatments–and the L.A. Sheriff's Department owns several machines to help inmates change their lives.
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