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Grandma’s Got The Zumba Moves!

Two years ago a young Singapore woman started her first Zumba Gold class for seniors who never exercised. The class was so well received that...

Generous Cop Pays Vet Bill for Service Dog Injured in Hit and Run

When Detective Ryan Salmon happened upon the scene of an accident in Takoma, Washington, he found the service dog for a wheelchair bound girl...

Wilderness on Wheels Helps Disabled Kids Connect With the Colorado Outdoors

A special camp in Park County, Colorado is offering disabled children a chance to connect with all the fun and wonder of experiencing the great outdoors. Photojournalist...

An Instagram Photo Journal Helped Me Survive Cancer

About a year and a half ago, the life I was living ceased to exist. I was diagnosed with stage 2a Ewing’s Sarcoma, a...

Help for a Single Mom Comes From Friends, Pixie Dust and Kindness of Strangers

On July 28th, 2014, Jennifer Hughes and her daughter, Dakotah, we’re driving back home to Lakeland, Florida after attending a charity fundraiser in New Jersey when...

Stranger Halfway Round the World Donates Car to Mom, Son With Cancer

Jaime Thurston aims to be the catalyst for change in one person's life every week this year. She achieved that BIG TIME last week...

US Airmen Adopt Little Girl with Special Needs From Ukraine

Tech. Sgt. Jamie Meadows-Valley traveled to a Ukrainian orphanage, even dodging street protests, to adopt a 2-year-old girl. Since then, the tiny girl named...

Anonymous Benefactor Leaves Car on Paralyzed Mother’s Front Lawn

A benefactor has given the gift of freedom, in the form of a new custom-fitted car, to an Australian mom left paralyzed six months ago after...

Giving Your Ideas Some Legs: Study Finds Walking Improves Creativity

Steve Jobs, the late co-founder of Apple, was known for his walking meetings. Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg has also been seen holding meetings on foot....

Students Build Dream Kitchen for People with Disabilities

Highlands College students who are studying construction technology have used their design wizardry to fashion a luminous new dream kitchen built especially for the...

Mother’s Invention Helps Disabled Son and Countless Others to ‘Walk’

A revolutionary harness designed by a mother to give her wheelchair-bound son a chance to walk has parents cheering. Debby Elnatan, whose son Rotem has...
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Robert Downey Jr. Showed His True Heart to a Bleeding Stranger in the 90’s

I’m willing to go out on a limb here and guess that most stories of kindness do not begin with drug addicted celebrity bad...
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Engineering Students Design Robotic Arm for Teen With Brittle Bones

It was a big day for Dee Faught when a team of Rice University students gave him a helping hand. In fact, they gave...
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Soldier Who Suffered Severe Injuries in Iraq Inspires Town with Positive Attitude

When Jerral Hancock came home from the Iraq war missing one arm and a paralyzed body that was burned all over, he was a...
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Dying Hospice Patient Gets One Last Ocean Hurrah Thanks to Officials

A hospice nurse recalled last week a sunny day back in August when everything came together to give Jim, a dying cancer patient, a...
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Quadriplegic Woman on the Love Behind Her 31-year Marriage

Joni Eareckson from Agoura Hill, California, has been wheelchair-bound since the age of 17, after severing her spinal cord in a diving accident that...
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Carnegie Hero Award is New Start for Felon who Saved 91-Year-old Woman

In saving a life, Pierre Johnson may also have transformed his own. Locked up in a Minnesota prison over the past year for selling cocaine,...
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Guinness Ad About Friendship Through Adversity Will Make Your Day

Dedication. Loyalty. Friendship. "The choices we make reveal the true nature of our character." An inspiring new television ad from the Guinness brewery has been...
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Quadriplegic Gets Long Sought DJ Career Using Technology Made by Friend

A man who was left severely disabled after he was hit by a car in Northampton is now enjoying a career as a DJ,...
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Hero Girl, 10, Catches Newborn Baby Dropped from 2nd story Window During Fire

A mother was forced to make the life-or-death decision to drop her baby from a burning apartment's window. Luckily, Zna Gresham, just 10 years...