We’re all trying our best to solve this complex puzzle we call life.
But, we can help each other navigate the ups and downs of life by sharing our ideas, knowledge, and resources.
Amazing things can happen when people band together and work towards the greater good!
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world: indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has. – Margaret Mead
Let’s look at a few stories that remind us of the power of human connection and collaboration.
- Nonprofit offers free mental health first aid training for adults
- Young girl is empowering kids with cancer
- Volunteers retrieve happy memories
- Sweden is efficiently recycling its food waste
Positively Uplifting Stories | September 16 2024
This nonprofit offers free resources to address mental health issues in children.
Communities In Schools of the Dallas Region is a nonprofit organization that connects trained staff to schools as a part of their intervention program, Youth Mental Health First Aid.
This program aims to prepare teachers and parents on how to recognize the warning signs of mental health issues in students.
The course is designed to educate families on common mental health challenges, adolescent development, and necessary intervention strategies.
“It’s important to keep an open dialogue and even through nonverbal communication being able to recognize you know some of the signs that could be a warning sign for mental health challenge that youth may be facing,” said Hillary Evans, Youth Mental Health First aid training graduate.
A young girl is bringing light to other kids with cancer.
Ailani Myers is one incredibly brave eight-year-old!
She’s been battling acute lymphoblastic leukemia since she was only two.
Ailani is a doll lover, her dolls bringing her a lot of comfort during hospital visits. She has more than 100 dolls and many of them were gifts from the Glimmer of Hope Foundation.
Now she is using her experience to show other kids with cancer that they’re not alone. She has helped raise money to donate dolls to cancer patients at Johns Hopkins Children’s Center. She also has her own coloring book, which depicts her journey with cancer.
“She is just a ball of fun and sunshine and energy, and even on the worst days, she is always finding a way to be happy or bring some light into the situation,” said Princecine Johnson Myers, Ailani’s mother.
Volunteers are preserving memories, one photo at a time.
Photos capture our most beautiful moments in life, which are truly irreplaceable.
A crew of volunteers in Kumamoto Prefecture, southwestern Japan, is helping people get back their treasured photos, which were damaged by flooding.
Volunteers working on this restoration project have saved over 70,000 photos so far!
“My house was flooded. They’ve revived about 15 albums of mine, so I’m returning the favor by helping out,” said a volunteer.
Sweden is leading the food waste recycling revolution.
Sweden is converting food waste into biogas and fertilizer instead of sending it to landfills.
Biogas generated from food waste is used to power cars and buses, and heat homes as well!
All residents are required to sort out and recycle their food waste. Recycling is made accessible and convenient for everyone.
“If you sort out the food waste it can be biogas and bio-fertilizer and these products will help us reduce the CO2 emissions and other greenhouse gases and by using a biofertilizer for example we don’t have to use finite resources such as phosphorus,” said Stina Hedström, Coordinator, Stockholm Vatten och Avfall, Sweden’s leading water and waste company.
Have a Great Week Everyone!
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