The Anheuser-Busch Brewery stopped canning beer this week to can drinking water to ship to areas hard hit by Hurricane Harvey. A spokesperson for Anheuser-Busch said more than 50,000 cans of emergency drinking water were packed up to be sent to Baton Rouge and on to families who may not have safe drinking water in […]
NYPD rescue tiny kitten from Queens sewer drain
#ESU Det Hirsch is feline good this morning after climbing down a storm drain & rescuing a trapped kitten @NYPD115Pct #PurrfectTiming pic.twitter.com/BYE2pbfObN — NYPD Special Ops (@NYPDSpecialops) August 23, 2017 A New York City Police Department detective helped rescue a tiny kitten trapped in a sewer pipe on Wednesday. NYPD Special Ops shared a photo […]
Leaders From 48 Countries Commit To Ending Human Trafficking, Forced Labour And Modern Slavery
Global business tycoons and politicians from 48 countries committed to ending human trafficking, forced labor and modern slavery on Friday at a landmark gathering of high-profile leaders in the Australian city of Perth. The forum, launched last year to expand public-private partnership to eradicate these crimes, saw participation from the heads of U.S. retail giant […]
Tulsa girl asks for charitable donations to local nonprofits rather than gifts on her birthdays
Gifts are usually showered upon young children at their birthday parties, but one little girl has never asked for any presents on her big day. Olivia Ellsworth turned six earlier this month. At the party, people brought donations to a local nonprofit rather than gifts, just as they’ve done on each of her previous birthdays. […]
Bullied Boy With Asperger’s Syndrome Gets a Huge Birthday Party Thrown in His Honour
After being bullied at school for being different, William Morales was starting to lose hope that he would ever make friends. But his community rallied together for his 13th birthday to show William that even though he felt lonely, he wasn’t going to be alone again. Hundreds of people in Port St. Lucie, Florida, attended […]
Disney Teams with Bionics firm to make Marvel, Star Wars, and Disney-themed prosthetic arms
Prosthetic hands are a functioning, every-day part of the wearer, so it’s important that they build self-confidence as well as improve physical capabilities. That’s why Joel Gibbard and the team at Open Bionics, a company that makes robotic hands, have teamed with Disney to create special bionic limbs inspired by well-loved movies. The designs resemble the […]