Former Orphan Creates Safe Haven For Street Kids

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January 6, 2015 a project of ServiceSpace The flute of the infinite is ceaselessly playing and its sound is love. - Kabir - Former Orphan Creates Safe Haven For Street Kids Crouching in the back of a van is a young boy with a fresh injury. He'd been hit with a bottle when he got into a fight. Stanislas Lukumba, a tall, good-looking, fortyish nurse, checks for shards of glass as the driver shines his cell phone on the wound. For the past eight years, Stanislas has made nightly trips in the van, a mobile clinic that runs in Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Stanislas, a former orphan himself, intentionally stops in neighbourhoods where street children hang out. He is accompanied by Kapeta Benda Benda who interacts with street children and listens to their problems. Together, this courageous and compassionate duo engage heart-to-heart with some of Kinshasa's most vulnerable kids, fostering trust, connectivity, and opportunities for a better life. { read more } Be The Change Create a safe haven for someone by offering them your full and loving presence. COMMENT | RATE               Related Good News The One Thing They Carried With Them 10 Creative Rituals To Learn From Building A Regret Free Life 16 Habits of Exuberant Human Beings 18 Things Highly Creative People Do Differently Power of Place: Photos From Around the World Ladder to the Pleiades Maya Angelou On Resilience and Children DailyGood is a volunteer-run initiative that delivers "good news" to 152,504 subscribers. There are many ways to help. To unsubscribe, click here. Other ServiceSpace projects include: KindSpring  //  KarmaTube  //  Conversations  //  Awakin  //  More

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10 Ways To Live Simply In 2015

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January 5, 2015 a project of ServiceSpace There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth. - Leo Tolstoy - 10 Ways To Live Simply In 2015 We are now entering radically changing times -- and it's only natural for our worldly expressions of simplicity to evolve in response. For more than thirty years Duange Elgin has explored the "simple life" and articulated it for tens of thousands of people all over the world. To Elgin, the most accurate way of describing this approach to living is with the metaphor of a garden. Here he describes 10 unique expressions of the simple life that we can work with. { read more } Be The Change Step up your simplicity: join the 21-Day Simple Living Challenge to receive a daily suggestion for 3 weeks. { more } COMMENT | RATE               Related Good News The One Thing They Carried With Them The Beautiful Fragility of Language Relationships Are More Important than Ambition Building A Regret Free Life What School Doesn't Teach You: How To Learn Power of Place: Photos From Around the World Gandhi's Ten Rules for Changing the World Ladder to the Pleiades DailyGood is a volunteer-run initiative that delivers "good news" to 152,181 subscribers. There are many ways to help. To unsubscribe, click here. Other ServiceSpace projects include: KindSpring  //  KarmaTube  //  Conversations  //  Awakin  //  More

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Giving People A Hand Up, Not A Hand Out

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January 4, 2015 a project of ServiceSpace There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up. - John Holmes - Giving People A Hand Up, Not A Hand Out I saw Joe sweeping up New York City's detritus, dressed in the familiar blue pants and shirt of Ready, Willing & Able. Four months out of prison, he said, "I've learned my lesson, but the situation was pretty dismal." That's when he turned to the Doe Fund, as tens of thousands of homeless men and ex-cons have done since 1990. Today the Doe Fund's 400 fulltime employees (some 70% of them graduates of the program) operate four programs to help the homeless, the formerly incarcerated, and most recently, veterans, achieve permanent self-sufficiency. { read more } Be The Change Give a hand up to someone every day this week as you look for the gold in them, rather than their outward appearance. COMMENT | RATE               Related Good News Ten Things You Might Not Know About Love The Beautiful Fragility of Language The Difference Between Listening & Hearing 10 Creative Rituals To Learn From 18 Things Highly Creative People Do Differently Resilience: The Opposite of Depression 7 Ways To Change Negative Beliefs About Yourself Ten Things Creative People Know DailyGood is a volunteer-run initiative that delivers "good news" to 151,849 subscribers. There are many ways to help. To unsubscribe, click here. Other ServiceSpace projects include: KindSpring  //  KarmaTube  //  Conversations  //  Awakin  //  More

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Top 10 Kindness Stories of 2014

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January 3, 2015 a project of ServiceSpace Kindness, I've discovered, is everything in life. - Isaac Singer - Top 10 Kindness Stories of 2014 Sometimes, all it takes is a small reminder to open our eyes to the beauty and wonder that surrounds us. KindSpring -- a portal for stories of kind acts, brims with such reminders every day! In 2014 a steady stream of acts of kindness by KindSpringers touched the lives of thousands of people all over the world. The following stories are some of the favorites from the past year. Enjoy! { read more } Be The Change Make this day sing with a small act of kindness for someone. COMMENT | RATE               Related Good News There's More to Life Than Being Happy The One Thing They Carried With Them The Beautiful Fragility of Language The Science of Love 10 Creative Rituals To Learn From Building A Regret Free Life Maya Angelou On Resilience and Children Resilience: The Opposite of Depression DailyGood is a volunteer-run initiative that delivers "good news" to 151,830 subscribers. There are many ways to help. To unsubscribe, click here. Other ServiceSpace projects include: KindSpring  //  KarmaTube  //  Conversations  //  Awakin  //  More

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