by Ernie St. Gelais | Oct 27, 2026 | Stories, Needs
On Thanksgiving night in 2023, someone stole John and Lynn Petroski’s Hyundai Sonata in South Philadelphia. John’s walker and cane were inside. Then strangers started sending canes and walkers. John was 76 when the story ran. He uses oxygen and has several...
by Ernie St. Gelais | Oct 22, 2026 | Stories, Needs
In September 2026, farmers in Hillsboro, North Dakota, came to finish his beet harvest. Bill Cotton is a lifelong farmer there, and a father of five. Bill was diagnosed with stage 4 brain cancer in the spring of 2026. His chemotherapy intensified over the summer. By...
by Ernie St. Gelais | Oct 20, 2026 | Stories, Needs
Richard Tan works at Southern New Hampshire Health, a medical center in New Hampshire. A coworker there turned out to be his kidney match. Before that came years of kidney disease. He has polycystic kidney disease, a condition that runs in families, and it was...
by Ernie St. Gelais | Oct 16, 2026 | Stories, Needs
In May 2017, over the Memorial Day weekend, a 19-year-old soldier named Keaton Tilson was trying to get home to Granite City, Illinois. A stranger bought the soldier’s ticket home before the weekend was over. Tilson had enlisted in the U.S. Army about eight...
by Ernie St. Gelais | Oct 15, 2026 | Stories, Needs
Carla Bannister is a mother in Woodlawn, a suburb north of Cincinnati, Ohio. In July 2024, a stranger gave her a car. Earlier that month, a man had set her SUV on fire. The fire happened early on a Tuesday. Surveillance video caught a man breaking the back window,...
by Ernie St. Gelais | Oct 14, 2026 | Stories, Needs
Camren Breeden built a walker for his blind classmate out of spare wood. At the start of his senior year at University High School in Spokane Valley, Washington, he noticed that a classmate named Daniel was having trouble getting around the building. Daniel is blind...
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