Orphan Crushing Machine
- Campaign collects €30,000 for homeless Amsterdammer who returned lost wallet with €2,000nltimes.nl Campaign collects €30,000 for homeless Amsterdammer who returned lost wallet with €2,000
A crowdfunding campaign for a homeless man in Amsterdam who turned in a cash-filled wallet he found has raised over 30,000 euros in less than a day.
- Donors raise $233,000 to give US cart pusher, 90, chance at retirementwww.theguardian.com Donors raise $233,000 to give US cart pusher, 90, chance at retirement
Dillon McCormick, an air force veteran, had been supporting himself by pushing carts in Louisiana’s triple-digit temperatures
- A Missouri fifth grader raised enough money to pay off his entire school's meal debtwww.cnn.com A Missouri fifth grader raised enough money to pay off his entire school’s meal debt | CNN
Kids can now eat without breaking the piggy bank – at least, at Thomas Ultican Elementary School – thanks to fifth grader Daken Kramer.
- crushingwww.al.com This 7-year-old has a lemonade stand to pay for her mom's tombstone
An Alabama community has been inspired by the child's selflessness.
cross-posted from: https://sopuli.xyz/post/11310783
> This 7-year-old has a lemonade stand to pay for her mom's tombstone
- Kids as young as 14 were found working at a Tennessee factory that makes lawn mower partswww.nbcnews.com Kids as young as 14 were found working at a Tennessee factory that makes lawn mower parts
The company, Tuff Torq, was fined nearly $300,000 for hiring 10 children. It must also set aside $1.5 million to help the immigrant minors who were illegally employed.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/13576449
> The company, Tuff Torq, was fined nearly $300,000 for hiring 10 children. It must also set aside $1.5 million to help the immigrant minors who were illegally employed. > > Immigrant children as young as 14 were found working illegally amid dangerous heavy equipment at a Tennessee firm that makes parts for lawn mowers sold by John Deere and other companies, according to Labor Department officials. > > The company, Tuff Torq, was fined nearly $300,000 for hiring 10 children. As part of a consent agreement with the federal government, the company is also required to set aside $1.5 million to help the children who were illegally employed. Ryan Pott, general counsel for Tuff Torq’s majority owner, the Japanese firm Yanmar, acknowledged the violations to NBC News.
- The OCM is shut down for a few hourswww.goodmorningamerica.com Over 7,000 students see their lunch debts wiped after $1 million donation
Students in four Georgia public school districts will get their lunch debts paid after a $1 million donation from the Arby's Foundation.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/11260815
> Over 7,000 students see their lunch debts wiped after $1 million donation > > Over 7,000 students in Georgia with unpaid lunch balances are getting a helping hand following a $1 million initiative from the Arby's Foundation, the nonprofit announced Thursday.
- California prisoner donates earnings from 13-cent hourly wage to Gazawww.theguardian.com California prisoner donates earnings from 13-cent hourly wage to Gaza
Donors raise more than $100,000 for man who gave his $17.74 paycheck for 136.50 hours of work to relief efforts in Gaza
- Texas Girl Born in Jail Heading to Harvard After Graduating at the Top of Her Classpeople.com Texas Girl Born in Jail Heading to Harvard After Graduating at the Top of Her Class
Aurora Sky Castner, a Texas teen who was born in jail and graduated at the top of her class this week, will be attending Harvard University in the fall
- School bus driver buys pajamas for student sad about missing out on pajama dayabcnews.go.com Bus driver buys pajamas for student sad about missing out on pajama day
"I never wanted to see my student hurt because of something so small," bus driver Larry Farrish Jr. said.
- Texas Supreme Court temporarily blocks ruling that allowed woman emergency abortionabcnews.go.com Texas Supreme Court temporarily blocks ruling that allowed woman emergency abortion
Texas woman Kate Cox appeared remotely for a hearing in her lawsuit against the state. She asked for an abortion to preserve her fertility.
- Dying woman’s last wish: to pay off others’ medical debt – $15m worthwww.theguardian.com Dying woman’s last wish: to pay off others’ medical debt – $15m worth
Casey McIntyre died from cancer on 12 November, but she devised a plan to cancel the medical debt of others as a parting gift
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- Betty Anne Waters, a high school drop out, became a lawyer and freed her brother who was wrongfully accused of murder and imprisoned for 18 years
cross-post from https://www.reddit.com/r/wholesomememes/comments/154egtb/betty_anne_waters_a_high_school_drop_out_became_a/
- Watch: Lab chimp sees the sky for first time in her life in wholesome videowww.nbcmiami.com Watch: Lab chimp sees the sky for first time in her life in wholesome video
The video posted shows a 28-year-old chimpanzee named “Vanilla” leaving her enclosure only to look at the blue skies for the first time in her life.
