by Ernie St. Gelais | Sep 29, 2026 | Stories, Needs
Oliver Muensterer was living in Leipzig, Germany, when a hotel clerk gave him the shirt off his back so he could make a job interview. NPR aired the story on December 25, 2023, on its series My Unsung Hero, and dated the events to roughly fifteen years earlier. He had...
by Ernie St. Gelais | Sep 28, 2026 | Stories, Needs
In February 2017 a mechanic in Wild Rose, Wisconsin, handed a stranger the keys to his truck so the man could get to a funeral. The stranger was Todd Steinkamp, from Iowa. He was driving to Green Bay for the funeral of the wife of the owner of the company where he...
by Ernie St. Gelais | Sep 10, 2026 | Stories, Needs
In June 2025, Kyle Lukowski had his trailer stolen from his home in Central Florida. He was 32 and ran a small landscaping business. The trailer carried the tools and equipment the business ran on, so the stolen work trailer took his livelihood with it. FOX 35 Orlando...
by Ernie St. Gelais | Sep 9, 2026 | Stories, Needs
Sebastian Miller is an incoming fifth grader in the Union-Endicott school district in Owego, New York. He wanted to play an instrument, and a senior engineering class in his own district built him a bow he could hold. WBNG 12 News reported it on August 4, 2026....
by Ernie St. Gelais | Sep 8, 2026 | Stories, Needs
Brandon Crouch owns a roofing company in Robinson, Texas. This past April a woman who lived in the same town gave him a kidney. She was not a relative and she was not a friend. A year earlier she had never heard of him. Crouch is 54. Type 1 diabetes and other...
by Ernie St. Gelais | Sep 5, 2026 | Stories, Needs
In March 2026 a woman in the Rochester, Minnesota area gave a stranger a van so he could get to work. His name is Jon Hielscher. He was 20 and living in Eyota, about twenty minutes outside the city. He had just landed a job in Rochester and had no way to get there. At...
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