STAR is a partnership between the Mental Health Center of Denver, Denver Health, Denver Police Department, Denver Department of Public Health and Environment, and stakeholders like Caring4Denver. It launched on the 1st of June, 2020 and it’s noted huge success since. This program provides crisis response to community members with […]
When farmworkers arrived down a hillside and burrowed their way under a barbed wire fence to bring water and bananas to the hundreds of people stranded by floodwaters on the Australian highway, they were slightly surprised that they were all well fed. They were also cheerful, despite the situation. The […]
These five women in Montreal are gathering every month to cook food that will feed the less fortunate. Food scarcity has become a bigger issue since the pandemic started and these ladies are trying to mitigate its negative effects. They’re the co-founders of the Shathi Sisters, a multifaith soup kitchen. […]
This amazing owner of a Tex-Mex restaurant in Wisconsin used his own money to help other struggling restaurants during the pandemic. The owner, one Adolfo Melendez from Stevens Point in Wisconsin, purchased more than $2000 in gift cards for various restaurants from his own community and then raffled them off […]
This is definitely a win-win situation. One Robert Magiet from Chicago regularly drives to various street tamale vendors and buys out their whole carts. When the happy vendors go home because they had a successful day, Magiet takes the tamales and places them in community fridges and people can take […]
This animal shelter in Chonburi, Thailand has a special purpose-it cares for stray dogs with disabled hind legs. The shelter is run by a foundation called The Man that Rescues Dogs which was launched by Swede chef, Michael J. Baines who moved there in 2002. He explains that they don’t […]
On Christmas Eve last year, one Elisha Tennant found an envelope on her front steps in her home in Edmonton, Canada. It said it’s from a Secret Santa. When she opened it up, she saw a hopeful poem and a $250 gift card from Walmart. When she realized she got […]
A man from Hyaderabad, India, Ramu Dosapati, used his life savings to open a ‘rice ATM’ for the people in need so that they can have food for free. His savings from working as a corporate HR executive helped him make a truly remarkable change and to help the ones […]
This business owner from Florida who was once down on his luck is now giving back to his community by paying for 114 bills of families who were to be shut off. The generosity of Michael Esmond began last year when he paid for the utility bills of 36 homes […]
With the economy of California continuing to struggle in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic, the officials of the state marked yesterday’s Labour Day holiday by giving $900 to jobless residents. However, a lot of those who fit into the scale won’t get this assistance immediately and almost 200,000 aren’t […]