While the fashion industry is slowly opening up to models with various skin conditions — models such as Winnie Harlow, who has vitiligo, and Shaun Ross, who has albinism — an artist based out of Kansas City, Missouri, is making sure the doll industry follows suit. Read more.
The artist behind Kay Customz, Crystal Kaye, has long been creating porcelain dolls with black women in mind. For eight months, as seen on the company’s Instagram account, she’s created dolls with natural hair, braids, twists, Bantu knots, dreadlocks and even male dolls with thick beards.
In September, Kaye started to showcase something new: custom dolls with skin conditions like albinism and vitiligo.
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At Christmas, we are supposed to do something for other people.
Dutch pop radio channel 3FM sends two or three of its DJ’s in a temporary studio, the week before Christmas. They are not allowed to get out of the studio, stop broadcasting and eat for six days. Their goal is to collect as much money as possible for a silent disaster. The annual event is called Serious Request and it has gained enormous popularity over the years.
The hole on the picture is supposed to put your hand in. Polish your nails, gender doesn’t count, and donate one euro, or don’t and donate more.
The challenge started Wednesday afternoon. It was supposed to collect 100 euros. By Thursday morning, this challenge had already grossed over 400.000 euros.
This challenge is started by six-year old Tijn(pronounce: [taain]), who thought about a way to help the millions of children worldwide who will most likely die from a disease that is easily curable in wealthy countries. He will lose his life to DIPC(brainstem glioma) within a year.
He really doesn’t seem to care about his own health. He is dying. That doesn’t stop him, but it motivates him to help people even more. Thousands of people, many celebrities included, were touched by this story and decided to donate.
Last year, the DJ’s of Serious Request collected over 12 million euros, and that record will surely be beaten. Tijn will be remembered as a hero, someone who brought light in the dark 2016.
I remember this, it was wonderful. With his challenge going viral they managed to raise approx. 2.5 million euros. In total, Serious Request raised 9.257.000 euros that year. It was a glorious project. Tijn also had an asteroid named after him, and he was invited to the city of Breda in his home province and was made major for a day. He also received the Cross of Merit and was blessed by pope Franciscus. After Serious Request he continued on raising money. As can be read in the UPDATE from the original poster: “... he and his family collaborated with a foundation set up after the death of another child with brainstem glioma to help beat the now incurable DIPC. That action has grossed over a million euros within a few days. “.
Finally, in 2017, after Tijn’s death, one of the clinics that was being renovated in Ivory Coast by the money raised from Serious Request was named after him. The clinic included a mural of Tijn with his hands raised up with his finger nails showing and at the re-opening of the clinic one of the two original DJs came and painted them red.
This morning I was walking back to my dorm, head down, worrying about the future and my afternoon classes and my health and my relationships with my friends, and I had walked through nearly the entire park that sits at the center of campus when I noticed the first message. I stopped, and walked around the rest of the park until I had found them all.
I don’t know who did this, but I want to thank them for making a difficult day a little brighter.
After six brothers and sisters spent five years in foster care, the Anderson-McLeans were finally able to give the children their forever home. The couple, who have been together for almost two decades, made the decision official in Judge Joseph K. Williams’ Pittsburgh courtroom on May 23, according to Today.
Steve and Rob were already parents to Steve’s sons Parker, 25, and Noah, 21, from a previous marriage, Today reported. Then they learned about the siblings in 2018.
“We saw their picture and fell in love,” said Rob, 47. “So many sibling groups are broken up because people just want to adopt the younger children. Steve and I knew these guys needed to be together.”
Carlos, 14, Guadalupe, 13, Maria, 12, Selena, 10, Nasa, 9, and Max, 7, came to live with the couple in July 2018.
After Jack Ryan, a teenager who has autism, showed interest in stocking shelves, Baton Rouge supermarket employee Jordan invited him to help with the job. The two finished the task together, stocking for more than 30 minutes.
Jack Ryan’s family was touched by Jordan’s kindness, and his grandfather called the gesture “a miracle in action.”
According to the Today Show, Jack Ryan was offered a part-time job at the store, and a GoFundMe page has been set up to send Jordan to school.
Watch more on the story here: https://on.today.com/2Km5eBj
Amazing 👏
When Addy Tritt paid a visit to her local Payless in Hays, Kansas, last week, she didn’t intend to walk out with the last of the store’s inventory. Tritt went to the now-out-of-business shoe store after seeing an ad on its Facebook page promoting its slashed prices.
When the last 204 pairs of footwear dropped to $1 each, she figured she could buy some and donate them to a shelter or church. After considering several different organizations, Tritt finally landed on the idea of sending the shoes to Nebraska, where recent epic flooding has destroyed millions of dollars in crops, injured and killed several people, damaged homes and deeply impacted farmers.
“I believe part of my plan is to help people, so I’m going to do that any way that I can,” she said.
*brb crying*
NPR: "This was really surprising that they did this so spontaneously and so readily," says Désirée Brucks, a biologist at ETH Zürich in Switzerland who is interested in the evolution of altruism.
Children as young as 1 seem highly motivated to help others, and scientists used to think this kind of prosocial behavior was uniquely human.
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Cavanaugh Bell, 7, spent $600 of his own money, saved up from two birthdays and three Christmases, to purchase and package 65 "COVID-19 Carepacks" along with 31 hot meals from a local restaurant, Buca Di Beppo, to serve to senior citizens and help the local businesses impacted by being closed after Gov. Larry Hogan shut down restaurants Monday.
He filled several shopping carts with food and a bottle of bleach to hand out to seniors. On top of that, he also helped feed 90 students in need on Thursday.
Cavanaugh started a non-profit called "Cool and Dope" with the mission to "eradicate all bullying and youth suicide through political and social action by his 18th birthday on Nov. 20, 2030."He became a philanthropist and anti-bullying activist after, at just 5 years old, he was bullied to the point of having suicidal thoughts. His mom encouraged him to counteract his experience by creating a movement to spread positivity and love.
In such a short amount of time and at a young age, he's already accomplished so much!
Meet the 8-year-old refugee who won New York State’s chess championship:
Tanitoluwa Adewumi and his family live in a homeless shelter after fleeing persecution against Christians in northern Nigeria in 2017. He learned how to play chess at his new school and in just one year became one of the top chess players in America for his age group.
What a smart and wonderful kid!
6-year-old Bridger received a special message from Captain America himself after saving his little sister from a dog attack
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Can we just start calling her a national treasure? 👏 The live broadcast –- which will air on Saturday, 18 April 2020 and feature the real-life experiences of doctors, nurses and families living through the pandemic - will include an all-star line-up of artists curated in collaboration with Lady Gaga. Among those performing will be Alanis Morissette, Andrea Bocelli, Billie Eilish, Billie Joe Armstrong of Green Day, Burna Boy, Chris Martin, David Beckham, Eddie Vedder, Elton John, FINNEAS, Idris and Sabrina Elba, J Balvin, John Legend, Kacey Musgraves, Keith Urban, Kerry Washington, Lang Lang, Lizzo, Maluma, Paul McCartney, Priyanka Chopra Jonas, Shah Rukh Khan and Stevie Wonder. Jimmy Fallon of ‘The Tonight Show’, Jimmy Kimmel of ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live’ and Stephen Colbert of ‘The Late Show with Stephen Colbert’, will host the event, with friends from Sesame Street on hand to unify and inspire people to support the global Covid19 response. Source: UN News
Old news, but still good news! :-)
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A man is seen sitting outside with a sign showing support for his wife during chemotherapy, while respecting the hospitals corona virus restrictions.