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April 22, 2021
Townsfolk Buy Pizza Delivery Man a New Car as Tip for 30 Years of Service with a Smile
It is kind of ironic that this story is about an awesome tip given by the good people of a town named TIP-ton.
Being a pizza delivery man may not be an unusual occupation but doing it for 31 years certainly is. That has never deterred Robert Peters from the town of Tipton, Indiana though.
Folks in Tipton had literally grown up to the familiar sight of Peters driving down to their house in his 28-year-old Oldsmobile car, serving them their Pizza Hut pizzas with a cheery grin. Yes, the tips he recei...
Being a pizza delivery man may not be an unusual occupation but doing it for 31 years certainly is. That has never deterred Robert Peters from the town of Tipton, Indiana though.
Folks in Tipton had literally grown up to the familiar sight of Peters driving down to their house in his 28-year-old Oldsmobile car, serving them their Pizza Hut pizzas with a cheery grin. Yes, the tips he recei...
Published on April 22, 2021 18:39
April 21, 2021
Yemeni Doctor treats the Poor for Free from His Car
"Stop Me if You Need a Medical Consultation."The sticker on the back of a Toyota Prado went viral in 2020 with even the featuring the man behind the wheel.
And deservedly so.
With civil war now in its seventh year in Yemen, more than half of the country's medical facilities have been plundered and nearly 20 million people are facing famine. Its infrastructure in tatters, Yemen struggled to deal with the pandemic that hit in 2020. There are no doctors in 18 percent of the districts in the coun...
Published on April 21, 2021 18:22
April 20, 2021
The Teenager Inspiring Children to Save the World
Community service is something that Rylee Brooke Kamahele from Hawai has been doing ever since she was a little girl along with her parents. 5 years ago, she decided she wanted to do even more.
Since then, she has (take a deep breath...)
provided food and gifts to needy children in Hawaii every Christmas since 2017, worked to build kids into future leaders by turning a child’s passion into an advocate for change, reduced single plastic use in the state, lobbied for bills related to ocean conserva...
Published on April 20, 2021 18:53
April 19, 2021
Quietly, Be Kind
Over the years, I have collected hundreds of stories of kindness from around the world. Because of the format of the A2Z blogging challenge, I then sort them out alphabetically before choosing which story to highlight for which alphabet.
So many awesome stories tend to get left out because of this. For example, I may have no great story of kindness from anyone whose name starts with the letter E (Damn you all, you evil Ezekiels and Ebeneezers!) but have plenty from folk starting with the letter A...
Published on April 19, 2021 12:17
April 18, 2021
Cop Runs a Kilometre with 10 kg Bomb On his Shoulder to Save 400 Schoolchildren
On August 2017, the police in Madhya Pradesh’s Sagar district received a call about the presence of a bomb inside a school in Chitora village.
Reaching the school, the policemen realized that curiosity over the object had drawn a huge crowd to the school. 32-year-old head constable Abhishek Patel was among the first to step in to investigate and what he saw absolutely terrified him.
The huge object in the school was a live shell which could detonate at any second, the blast radius of which could d...
Published on April 18, 2021 18:26
April 16, 2021
Interior Designer Develops Innovative Scheme to Help the Homeless
Interior designer Jessica Helgerson balances modern aesthetics with personal touches for her projects and over a two-decade career has earned herself an applause-laden national reputation. Inspired by a pro-bono client � Portland Homeless Family Solutions � Jessica decided she wanted to do more for those who had no homes of their own.
“Every day, I see the effects of our country’s devastating wealth gap playing out on our sidewalk. I had to do something.”�- Jessica Helgerson, One Percent Project...
Published on April 16, 2021 18:30
3 things to keep in mind while choosing a Covid Vaccine
The are rising once more across the nation. Working inside a COVID19 ICU since the day the lockdown first began in India in 2020, I can vouch for that fact personally as tragically, the beds start to fill up once more. The numbers this time around are higher than they were last year and that is indeed worrisome.
But there is hope as well.
We have started our COVID vaccination drives, raising the hope that we can one day resume a normal life. Several vaccine candidates are now avai...
Published on April 16, 2021 06:12
April 15, 2021
Child's Passion for Violin Inspires Stranger to Build her a Prosthetic Limb
It all began when Nate Kellogg’s children returned home from school one fine day. As always, the apprentice mechanic was eager to hear about their day and what they had been up to. But one story in particular caught his attention. Nate’s three children got to talking about their 4th grade schoolmate Valerie Romero who had been born with just one complete arm. The little girl loved the violin but as could be expected, struggled to play it as she could not hold the bow while practicing her notes o...
Published on April 15, 2021 18:25
April 14, 2021
Real Estate Owner Raises Millions of Dollars in Funds to Ensure 3000 Families Do Not Get Evicted
Growing up as a Monopoly champion in her 6th grade class in Atlanta may have inspired Marjy Stagmeier to become a landlord but she certainly did not pick up the ruthlessness of the game. If anything, she is the anti-slumlord of real estate.
After graduating, Marjy invested in old affordable apartment communities but quickly realized many of the tenants there were low-income single parents, struggling to make ends meet.
Moved by their plight, the successful entrepreneur who used to manage a $500 m...
Published on April 14, 2021 18:36
April 13, 2021
Company collects 9 Million kilos of Food from People who are Moving and Delivers it to the Needy
A moving company in New Jersey shot into the limelight because of their unique endeavour, based purely on the observations made while helping folk shift their belongings.
“When people move, they throw away a whole bunch of stuff: food, clothing, furniture, you name it. And what bothered us was the perfectly good, nonperishable food that was getting left behind in the pantry, or simply thrown in the trash.”�- Adam Lowy
Adam, whose family has been running a moving company for over a 100 years, would...
Published on April 13, 2021 17:38