Heroes
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Heroes USA16. April 2021
Meet the Man Who Wants to Create a No-Waste World
For the past two decades, an American entrepreneur has made it his mission to recycle just about everything you can think of - even items municipal facilities cannot handle. And today, his circular economy philosophy is paying off big.
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Heroes Zimbabwe20. March 2021
Teen Inspires Young People to Fight Climate Change
A teenage Zimbabwe activist, newly appointed as a UNICEF’s Youth Climate Advocate, made it one of his missions to reach out to his fellow young citizens to actively take part in the country’s fight against climate change.
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Heroes New Zealand1. March 2021
150 People Hold Hands in Two-Day Effort to Save Whales
It took two days and a lot of efforts, but a group of volunteers created a human chain and were able to successfully refloat a pod of long-finned pilot whales that were stranded at the top of New Zealand’s South Island.
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Heroes India19. February 2021
Corona: How Buses Are Helping India’s Villagers Get Back on Their Feet
A young labour activist based in Kalahandi, India, has developed a service of buses for people from remote villages who have been cut off from the outside world since the corona pandemic, and who wish to resume their work in big cities.
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Heroes USA26. January 2021
Tesla CEO Donates Millions to Nonprofit Online Learning
The American entrepreneur and philanthropist Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla, has made a $5 million donation to an online learning organization through his foundation dedicated to supporting research in renewable energy, space exploration and science.
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Heroes USA16. January 2021
This Doctor’s Christmas Present to His Cancer Patients is Worth $650,000!
Over Christmas, an oncologist from Arkansas, United States announced in writing to 200 patients that he erased their outstanding medical bills out of sympathy for the many families that were financially challenged because of the corona pandemic.
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Heroes Malawi9. January 2021
Meet the Woman-Leader Who Sends Girls Back to School instead of Having Them Get Married
When she became the traditional leader in her district of Dedza in Malawi, Theresa Kachindamoto worked tirelessly to ban child weddings, going as far as annulling 300 unions that were performed before her rise to power, and sending kids back to school.
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Heroes USA1. January 2021
They Didn’t Know What Was Coming… (Billions of Dollars Their Way)
When over a dozen colleges and universities in the U.S. were anonymously interviewed about their missions, little did they know billionaire Mackenzie Scott was secretly planning to donate tens of millions of dollars - to each of them!