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Heroes IndiaCorona: 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 USATesla 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 USAThis 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 MalawiMeet 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 USAThey 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!
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Heroes USAHe Has Billions of Dollars – and Now Gives Away Ten of Them to Fight Climate Change
Amazon CEO and multi billionaire Jeff Bezos picked 16 environmental organizations that will collectively get $791 million as part of his personal $10 billion climate action fund he created earlier this year.
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Heroes USAThis Woman Leads the Road to the Corona Vaccine (and She Didn’t Take Government Money)
Kathrin Jansen has spent decades of her career thinking outside the box to produce difficult vaccines, and this time is no different: the Pfizer scientist spearheaded the production of a 94% effective vaccine against COVID-19 - using an unproven technology.
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