He couldn't get over the fact that so much soap was wasted every day in hotels across wealthy nations, so now Derreck Kayongo's basement in the United States is lined with huge boxes filled with bars of soap that will help fight the spread of child diseases in Africa through his Global Soap Project.
Some 200 poor children with deformed limbs have come to Bangalore in the hope of learning to walk, skip and jump like their friends. Helping them realize their dream will be 30 top surgeons from India, UK and USA who will conduct 30 surgeries a day. All this is free of cost.
One upstart nonprofit is giving hope to "end stage" patients by providing assistance to defray the costs associated with the patient's participation in FDA clinical trails.
Operation Bigs pairs volunteers from Big Brothers Big Sisters with kids who have a parent deployed. The "bigs" volunteer to play games and sports with the kids at their schools on base. They also do some mentoring.
When U.S. Army Veteran Justin Lansford and Carol Balmes got married earlier this month, the choice for best man was clear–man's best friend.
A dog born with a rare birth defect waited a long time for adoption, but it was worth it. He was the perfect match for a girl born with the same condition.
Gary Ribble would not be able to read this story if not for people like you. Ribble, who has chronic lymphocytic leukemia, needed new eyeglasses last spring but couldn't afford them after losing a job he'd held for more than 40 years. Then he found out about the Modest Needs Foundation.
Miep Gies, the last surviving member of the group who helped protect Anne Frank and her family from the Nazis, has died in the Netherlands aged 100. She and other employees of Anne Frank's father Otto supplied food to the family as they hid in a secret annex above the business premises in Amsterdam.
Americans are helping to keep kids warm in spite of the recent Arctic blast through Operation Warm, a charity that provides brand new coats to children from disadvantaged families. Founded by Pennsylvania Rotary Club member Richard Sanford, Operation Warm has provided more than a half million coats to children in 26 states since 1998.
To honor and encourage volunteerism on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, Allstate Insurance Company is honoring four African-American volunteers who generously serve their communities through extensive volunteer efforts and continuously make a positive impact in their neighborhoods. The four inaugural Give Back Day Heroes, from Atlanta, Charlotte, Chicago and Washington, D.C., attended the King Center's […]
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.