Man carves 5-mile long road so children can attend school without any difficulty
A man named Jalandhar Nayak, living in a remote eastern Indian village, did not like the fact that his three sons had to spend three hours walking down a rocky path to reach school every day. So he did the unthinkable–the man picked up a chisel, a garden hoe and pickaxe and began building a shorter, easier-to-navigate route. His efforts came to the attention of government officials this week when he was...
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This woman comes up with an interesting solution to rising rents
With rents in big cities like Vancouver going through the roof, finding affordable housing has become quite a task. The arrival of AirBnb rentals has made things worse by causing an acute shortage of rental vacancies. To cope with these issues, a woman named Atli has transformed her van into a comfy home for herself. As a transit bus driver, Atli lives and works in Vancouver, which has one of the most expensive...
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8-year-old cancer fighter gets an overwhelmingly warm welcome at school
Bridget Kelly, an eight-year-old student at Merrymount Elementary School in Quincy, Massachusetts, was going back to school after a hiatus of fifteen months. She had spent the time fighting cancer and undergoing a stem cell transplant. The little girl was in for a big surprise on January 2, when she finally returned to school. As Bridget walked in, she was met by hundreds of students, parents, teachers and...
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This Brazilian company taught its illiterate cleaning staff how to read
Nataly Bonato, the owner of Sao Paulo-based company WeWork, wanted to address office cleaning issues and asked the janitors to provide some very basic information like name of the janitor, which room they cleaned, why a particular room wasn’t cleaned (if any), and how much time was spent in each room in the form of a report. When the first report took a week to be turned in and the answers weren’t even accurate,...
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Turkish gym gives free lifetime pass to Syrian refugee looking longingly through the window
A photograph of Muhammet Halit, a shoe-shiner in Adiyaman, went viral recently where he is seen staring longingly through the window of a Turkish gym. The 12 year old Syrian refugee is seen with his shoe-shining equipment, wearing a pair of slippers, in the cold winter season. The gym offered a free lifetime membership to Muhammet after his photo went viral, winning the hearts of many people. “A boy,...
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These Michigan animal control officers are sleeping in dog houses to raise awareness
Officers at Saginaw County Animal Control in Michigan take many calls every day about animals, especially dogs, left out in the cold for too long. Officer Joaquin Guerrero and two other officers finally decided to raise awareness about the issue. They will be sleeping in custom-made dog houses at the Saginaw Correctional Facility, hoping their voices are heard loud and clear on Jan. 12. “It’ll fit to...
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This grocery store donates food that would have otherwise been destroyed after cooler malfunction
Trader Joe’s grocery store in Michigan suffered a refrigerator malfunction last Wednesday. Any other grocery store would’ve trashed all the perishable food items but Trader Joe’s policy, however, requires their stores to donate all of their perishables to charity. So the store donated all 35,000 pounds of their perishable goodies to Kalamazoo Gospel Mission: a local shelter that serves over 600 meals to...
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World’s first country that makes it illegal to pay women less than men
Iceland just became the first country in the world to make gender pay gap illegal. The legislation came into force on Monday, the first day of 2018. According to the new legislation, companies with more than 25 staff members are obliged to prove that they are not paying their male employees more than the females. Those that fail to prove pay parity will face fines. “The legislation is basically a mechanism...
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New Study : No increase in the number of autistic children in the US in last 3 years
In a heartening news, the US has seen no rise in the number of kids diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) since the last three years. Before that, the country witnessed a steady increase in the number of autistic kids for about twenty years. “Previous surveys have reported a steady increase in ASD prevalence in U.S. children over the past two decades,” a survey conducted through Autism and Developmental...
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This UK sandwich chain is offering double discount to customers bringing reusable coffee cups
In the UK, the number of coffee cups that end up in trash bins annually amount to 2.5 billion. That is almost 5,000 cups per minute! In an attempt to end this waste and change people’s habits, UK-based sandwich chain Pret a Manger has been offering 25 p discounts to customers using reusable cups since 2017, alongside Costa and Starbucks. The chain has now doubled the discount to 50 p on hot drinks. CEO...
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