Inspiring News
From the Good News Network
Sometimes the news can show the darker side of local and world events. But there is so much more! We found the Good News Network online and find their writing and focus to align well with our virtues and beliefs. We have included some excerpts below borrowed from their site. The link above with direct you to their site for further information and to subscribe directly.
Kindness Activists are Adding Benches to City Bus Stops After Man With Cane Has to Sit on a Curb
A photo showing a man with a cane sitting on the ground at a bus stop led to a groundswell of compassion and a determination to make things right. From that uncomfortable predicament, a local movement in Berkeley, California, was born. It started when Darrell Owens...
81-year-old Waitress Couldn’t Retire, so a Stranger Raised Over $300K for Her
An 81-year-old restaurant server named Betty in Pittsburgh must have been smiling the rest of her shift: a woman had given her an outsized, $40 tip. She might have thought that was the end of their interaction, but Betty could not have imagined what that $40 tip would...
British Woman Gives Birth After Receiving Transplant Womb from Sister and Pro Bono Surgery at Hospital
A woman has spoken to the media for the first time after becoming a mother to the UK’s first child born from a transplanted womb. Grace Davidson was able to have that opportunity thanks to her sister, who donated her womb in what Davidson called “a huge act of...
Watch Boy Bid Farewell to Garbage Man After Years of Heartwarming Weekly Chats
This is the moment a nine-year-old boy said goodbye to his local trash collector after greeting him every week on the road outside his driveway for years. Noah Carrigan had waited for the same garbage man every Tuesday since he was five – forming a sweet friendship....
Priestess Statue Found Preserved in Walls of Pompeii, Set to Star in New Exhibit on Roman Women
Later this month, an exhibition will open at the Archaeological Museum of Pompeii where a brand-new discovery will play a starring role in communicating the lives of women in the Roman world’s famous buried city. Found mounted against a wall inside a necropolis near...
Tony Robbins’100 Billion Meals Challenge Secures First 30 Billion Meals, Redefining Global Hunger Relief Efforts
While many Americans have received valuable inspiration and information from motivational speaker Tony Robbins, millions more have received something more valuable—their next meal. Admittedly always interested in solving food scarcity and hunger in America, Robbins...
Trading Cards Featuring Middle-Aged Men Go Viral in Japanese Town, Boosting Volunteerism and Awe of Elders
In a story that will make you ‘aww’ and ‘aha’ like the best Pixar film, a Japanese community center released a line of collectable trading cards featuring the town’s older male residents. Seeking a way for the younger generation to connect with the “amazing” community...
City in India Ranks the Cleanest 8 Years in a Row: ‘it Feels as Though You Aren’t in India’
For 8 years in a row, the lesser-known Indian city of Indore has been voted the country’s cleanest city, an honor accorded to it off the back of a massive civic drive to improve and maintain hygiene standards. Recounted to the Guardian by Amrit Dhillon, Indore’s...
Man is ‘Overwhelmed’ as His Bengal Cat is Returned From 16-year Absence After a Phone Call
A missing kitten has been finally reunited with her owner sixteen years after vanishing from the backyard. Sunshine disappeared from owner Carl Pullen’s garden in 2009 when she was around three-years-old. Carl presumed the pedigree Bengal cat was stolen because the...
