Dozens of children went to work stuffing 500 backpacks with school supplies Saturday, to make sure arriving Syrian refugee children don’t fall any further behind in their schoolwork. The Canadian…
An amazing South African good samaritan has offered to pay for the university education of two bright matric pupils from a rural KwaZulu-Natal school. Peter Harvey, 71, said after he…
The last thing Alan Rickman did (professionally) before he died is voiceover for this video of a tortoise eating a strawberry – for a good cause! By watching this video,…
South Africans are becoming more helpful to strangers in need, is a key finding from the latest World Giving Index. Published annually by the Charities Aid Foundation (CAF), this Index…
A water drive that started as a modest plea on Facebook has grown into a nationwide campaign co-ordinated by ordinary people on social media. “It has snowballed into something I…
Meet Jamie Ramsey, the “British Forrest Gump.” He’s a guy who loves to run — so much so that he just jogged from Vancouver, Canada, to Buenos Aires, Argentina. The…
Self-made South African billionaire Allan Gray and his family have given away to charity their entire controlling stake of the Allan Gray investment company and its offshore partner Orbis, BusinessDayLive…
While temperatures neared freezing in Manhattan over the weekend, this good deed warmed the hearts of passengers on a Brooklyn-bound subway. Lazaro Nolasco boarded his train Friday around 10 p.m….
As South Africa faces the worst drought in 70 years, a humanitarian organisation has distributed more than 250,000 litres of water to the communities. Residents from Senekal and Aliwal North…
Amy Verder recently posted this picture on Facebook of a “Blessing Bag” that she and her daughter started keeping in her car. Hopefully, this will inspire more people to do…
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“Someone’s opinion of you does not have to become your reality” - Les Brown
