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Christmas is a wonderful time for many children, but certainly not all. However, this week focuses three separate stories of how people are making an effort to change that for those in their communities.

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Helping Kids Find Community Even Without a Home

Arkansas Couple Adopts Set of 7 Siblings Ahead of Christmas

The Globe’s Biggest Maritime Shipping Company is Abandoning Fossil Fuels

Michael Bloomberg: Why I’m Giving $1.8 Billion for College Financial Aid

Man Postpones Retirement to Save Reefs After He Accidentally Discovers How to Make Coral Grow 40 Times Faster

Wallsend Village Security Guard Phil Colelough Saves Shop Assistant Kerry Woseen

Woman Uses DNA Kit to Reunite with Mother After Nearly 70 Years

Homeless Man with Terminal Cancer Donates to Holiday Toy Drive

This week is all about the good that gets created in the world, whether that’s for future generations, the people around us, or as a gift for us today.

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India Is Now a World Leader in Renewable Energy

Bus Driver Buys Homeless Rider Dinner, Lets Him Stay on Warm Bus All Night

Here’s Who to Thank That We All Survived the Quake on Friday

Iraq Veteran Battles PTSD After Returning Home, Dedicates Life to Helping Other Vets

Retired Firefighter-Paramedic Spends Savings on Naloxone, Gives it Away for Free

NYPD Finds UK Couple Who Lost Ring (down a grate) During Romantic Proposal

Michael Bloomberg’s Charity Donates $50m to Fight Opioid Crisis

Dark Web Dealers Voluntarily Ban Deadly Fentanyl

Thanksgiving was this past week, so this week is all about people recognizing what they have, giving thanks, and paying it forward.

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Update on Former Homeless Connecticut Man Who Returned 10k Check Last Year

This Man Hosts a Free Thanksgiving Dinner for All Who RSVP. It’s His 33rd Year

A Soldier Says a Stranger’s Christmas Card Got Him Through Vietnam. He Just Met the Sender

Minnesota Farm Donates 36,000 Pounds of Potatoes for Thanksgiving Food Program

Nicki Minaj Celebrates Thanksgiving by Handing Out Over 500 Turkeys to Queens

It’s Now Cheaper to Build a New Wind Farm Than to Keep a Coal Plant Running

Bollywood Superstar Amitabh Bachchan Pays Off £438,000 of Debt Owed by 1,398 Farmers in His Home State in India

Israeli Scientists Develop Implanted Organs That Won’t Be Rejected

This week is devoted to stories of things and people bringing hope in hopeless situations, whether that’s science, video game tournaments, 9-year-olds, or garages.

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There’s New Hope of Not Only Delaying, but Reversing Symptoms of Dementia

SonicFox Donates $10K of His Injustice 2 Pro Series Grand Prize to Opponent’s Family

9-Year-Old Organizes Vigil for Man Her Father is Charged with Murdering

How a Paradise Garage, Miraculously Untouched by Fire, Saved a Fleet of Nurses and Their Patients

B.C. Couple Who Planned Holiday to California Spend Vacation Helping Wildfire Evacuees

Toyota Will Replace Burnt Tundra as a Thank You to Brave Nurse

Guy Fieri Surprises California Firefighters With a Home Cooked Meal

Sandra Bullock Donates $100,000 to Help Save Animals From Woolsey, Hill Fires

Metallica Donate $100,000 to California Wildfire Relief Efforts

This week is all about the selfless of other, whether that’s of doctors, doughnut lovers, or holiday operators.

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Since 1974 Every Sunday This Doctor Treats 700-1200 Patients Free Of Cost

91-Year-Old Bhakti Yadav Is Indore’s First Female Doctor and Treats Patients for Free

Customers Buy Out Doughnut Shop Early Every Day So Owner Can Be With Sick Wife

Thomas Cook Pledges to Remove 70 Million Items of Single-Use Plastics Over Next Year

Spain to Close Most Coalmines in €250m Transition Deal

Earth’s Ozone Layer is Healing, Says U.N.

US Cigarette Smoking Rate Reaches New Low

Half of YouTube Viewers Use it to Learn How to do Things They’ve Never Done

79 Students Kidnapped from a School in Cameroon are Freed

Becoming a US Citizen Was This 106-Year-Old’s Dream. She Took the Oath On Election Day

New Zealand Baby Rescue: Fisherman Pulls 18-Month-Old from Ocean

Son Wakes from Coma After His Elderly Mum Nursed Him Day and Night for More Than a Decade

This week, it’s Fall break at Lander University. But, that doesn’t mean the good news has stopped! Joel briefly highlights just some of the great articles from this past week.

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A Rural Community Decided To Treat Its Opioid Problem Like A Natural Disaster

Paralyzed Man Walks After Groundbreaking Spinal Implant

North Dakota Woman Donates 3,100 Pounds Of Vegetables To Families In Need

Thanks To Snapchat, Omaha Woman Gets Lifesaving Stroke Medicine With 12 Minutes To Spare

Cheap Diabetes Drugs Taken By Millions May Slow Down Progression Of Alzheimer’s

Asia Bibi: Pakistan acquits Christian woman on death row

Muslim-led Fundraiser Nets $150,000 For Funeral Costs Of Synagogue Shooting Victims

Carbon Dioxide Emissions From The U.S. Power Sector Have Declined 28% Since 2005

Bangladesh has reduced child mortality rates by 78%

This week showcases three different stories about how good is overcoming misfortune, whether that’s through sign language, societal opportunity, or parental instinct.

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Starbucks’ first US ‘Signing Store lets deaf customers order using sign language

San Jose: Homeless people will be paid $15 an hour to pick up trash in ‘hotspots’

Mom with ‘gut feeling’ stops school shooter before planned attack

Stephen King sold the rights to one of his stories to some teenage film students for just $1

This 12-year-old- girl built a robot that can find microplastics in the ocean

Koreas to remove guns and guard posts from Panmunjom ‘truce town’

Police repair woman’s door after it was damaged in a breaking and entering

Montreal man gives away heaps of farm-fresh veggies every week to promote a ‘genuine culture of sharing’ and caring

Iowa mother donates over 10,000 children books in late-daughter’s memory