This single dad just adopted 5 siblings under the age of five so they can stay together
Lamont Thomas, a man from Buffalo, NY, has fostered over 30 kids. The single dad recently became a father of twelve kids when he added five more to his brood – Zendaya, Jamel, Nakia, Major, and Michaela – aged 5, 4, 3, 2 and 1. The children had been separated for more than a year-and-a-half and had spent time in four different homes in four different cities before Thomas swooped in two years ago and...
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This Indian couple uses unconventional, eco-friendly techniques to build cement-free homes that don’t need air conditioners
Dhruvang Hingmire and Priyanka Gunjikar are architects, but with an interesting twist. This Pune-based couple uses eco-friendly and sustainable techniques to build homes with their own hands using natural materials and employing only local labor. To get an idea of how they work, let us take the example of their recent project at a private retreat in Thoran village near Kamshet, a town between Mumbai and Pune....
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NFL football star has paid for over 500 mammograms in honor of his mom who died of breast cancer
Former NFL running back DeAngelo Williams lost his mom in 2006 of breast cancer. Then, breast cancer claimed the lives of all four of his mom’s sisters too, all of them were below 50. This prompted him to create the DeAngelo Williams Foundation in honor of his mother and they have till date paid for 500 mammogram screenings for under-insured women in four states—North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, and...
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This kindhearted man paid off lunch debts of over 400 kids
Andrew Levy is a real estate agent in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, who conducts most of his business in the Jupiter area. Recently, Levy got to know that over 400 kids in the area could not have a proper lunch in their school cafeterias because of outstanding lunch debts. This bothered Levy and the kindhearted man met with the district authorities to pay off the outstanding debt in all nine Jupiter public...
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This 11-year-old crochet prodigy raised thousands of dollars for orphans
11-year-old Jonah Larson is a self-taught crocheting prodigy who began crocheting when he was just five years old. His first project was a simple dishcloth that he made using donated materials while learning through a YouTube tutorial. He loved the process so much that the young lad hasn’t stopped since. Today, he makes pretty much anything, including pumpkins, Afghans, fingerless gloves, ear...
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Rome allows people to pay their transit fares through digital credit earned by recycling plastic bottles
A great new initiative by the Roman authorities aims to tackle the plastic pollution menace through encouraging people to recycle their plastic bottles. The city now allows people to bring plastic bottles to a metro station, insert them in a machine that crushes and sorts them, and gain digital credits that go toward transit fares. Although it takes around 30 bottles to earn a standard €1.50 fare as the machine...
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This Indian architect just developed a beehive-inspired cooling system
As the planet continues to warm, the demand for cooling systems is on the rise across the globe. To beat the heat, people install air conditioners which have a massive impact on the environment. In the capital city Delhi, almost 50 per cent of the energy consumption can be attributed to cooling systems during peak summers. However, Delhi-based architect, Monish Siripurapu, and his architectural firm Ant Studio,...
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Despite a nasty fall, Jimmy Carter builds Habitat for Humanity homes in Tennessee
Former US President Jimmy Carter took a nasty fall at his home in Georgia on Sunday that left him with a black eye and about fourteen stitches above his brow. However, that did not deter him from attending the opening ceremony of a Habitat for Humanity event in Nashville, Tennessee, later that day. “I had a No. 1 priority and that was to come to Nashville and build houses,” Carter told a crowd at a charity...
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9 Latin American countries set an ambitious goal for renewable energy that is more than twice than EU’s
Nine Latin American countries including Chile, Peru, Ecuador, Costa Rica, Honduras, Guatemala, Haiti, the Dominican Republic, and Colombia, have jointly agreed to an ambitious target of meeting 70% of their energy requirements through renewables by 2030 – which is more than double what has been pledged by the European Union. Panama and Brazil are reportedly still considering participation. With the EU only...
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These ‘Junior Detectives’ successfully track down missing 97-year-old with dementia
When 97-year-old Glenneta Belford, a non-verbal woman with dementia, went missing from her home in Roseville, California, the local Police Department made a social media post in the hope that community members may be able to find the missing senior. To their surprise, Belford was found by none other than five “junior detectives” who had spent their evening searching for the woman on their bicycles after they...
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