Inspirational/Good-feeling

[Randi]

This topic was started by tastiger.

[Randi]

The civilian heroes of India's plane crash tragedy

Interesting point:

Dr PP Venugopalan, director of emergency medicine at a hospital in Kozhikode, believes the community action saved at least 10 lives.

"The people in the neighbourhood had received some training in trauma care and how to handle such a situation," he told the BBC.

"In 2012 the district administration conducted a mock drill on air crashes involving some 650 people, which I think was the biggest in India. The [Air India] plane fell exactly on the same spot."

"It took one month to train the local community members, including taxi drivers. Everyone received hands-on training. I think that also helped to reduce the casualties."

[AvastMH]

That's a wonderful outcome Randi The power of intelligent community action. I bet those that helped are sleeping easily despite...

[Randi]

Bride and groom had extra food. So they took it to a shelter and served it.

[Randi]

She was homeless and living in a store’s parking lot. Then the store hired her.

[Michael]

[AvastMH]

Brilliant! Just goes to show how easy it is to decide to make a change to a difficult life. If only we could do this on a national basis

[Randi]

An autistic girl eats only one food. Here’s what happened when stores sold out of it.

[Morgan]

These are SOOOOO good. Thanks, Randi.

[Randi]

Glad you like them

[AvastMH]

What a wonderful story. Makes me have hope.

[Randi]

A farmer fell ill. So dozens of his neighbors showed up and harvested his crops.

Lane Unhjem was driving his combine harvester across a field of durum wheat on his North Dakota farm earlier in the month, when suddenly smoke began billowing from the machine. Before Unhjem could figure out what was going on, flames started leaping around him.

Unhjem’s neighbors saw the fire and raced over, helping him extinguish the blaze and saving the field from ruin. But the shock of the moment, coupled with the thick plumes of smoke Unhjem inhaled, triggered the 57-year-old farmer to go into cardiac arrest.

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When other farmers in Divide County, N.D., heard what happened to Unhjem on Sept. 9, they immediately halted their own harvesting. Nearly 60 of them showed up at Unhjem’s farm, equipped with a range of heavy-duty machinery, to finish his harvest for him.

[AvastMH]

There goes that lovely sound again, Randi, the sound of community working together! Looking forward to hearing more of it

[Randi]

A boy gave a Baby Yoda to crews battling Oregon wildfires. They lovingly passed it among firefighters, across state lines.

[Randi]

Peru reopens Machu Picchu for a Japanese tourist who waited for seven months

When Peru closed Machu Picchu in mid-March, Jesse Katayama, 26, was on the brink of achieving a longtime dream. The Japanese boxing instructor had traveled halfway around the world to visit the ancient ruins.

But one day before he was due to see the UNESCO World Heritage site, Peru declared a state of emergency, shattering his plans and leaving him stranded in the nearby town of Aguas Calientes, a gateway for visitors to the 15th-century Inca citadel, as other Latin American nations followed suit and closed their borders.

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He rented a room, explored lesser-known sites in the area and began teaching boxing lessons to local children. But his hopes of getting to visit Machu Picchu dwindled as his savings started to run low and plans to reopen the site were delayed.

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Sympathetic locals who had met Katayama and learned of his plight lobbied on his behalf, and Peru’s Ministry of Culture eventually agreed to make an exception, ahead of Katayama’s scheduled departure from Peru this month.

[Randi]

An electrician saw his client’s house was in disrepair. So he called friends and they fixed her house for free.

[Michael]

[AvastMH]

Love it - what a great story

[Randi]

This Texas farm connects special-needs kids with injured animals: ‘They’re just like me’

She was inspired to open an animal sanctuary upon witnessing the immense impact a service dog named Angel had on her autistic son, Jackson. Angel was 6 when they got her in 2012.

“Angel gave my son confidence and strength beyond anything I was capable of doing as his mother,” she said. “We saw a dramatic difference within weeks.”

Angel, who passed away two years ago, was a big, fluffy Great Pyrenees who was specifically trained to temper and protect Jackson.

“The security of having an animal that understood him and what he was going through changed everything,” Wallace-Griner said.

Her son’s relationship with Angel propelled Wallace-Griner to create a safe space for people and animals to form bonds and love one another without any judgment.

[Michael]