CommunityNairobi, Kenya
211 Kenyan university students received tuition help and a laptop
I&M Foundation and Help Change Lives handed over laptops in Nairobi for scholars at 39 public universities.
Verified · HapaKenyaTodayOn this dayOctober 22
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From the archive
48 stories published on October 22 in any year.
Community
CommunityNovi, Michigan
300 credit union employees built sheds, bikes, and 1,600 meal kits
Vibe Credit Union's Community Impact Day in Novi put 300 employees to work for two hours with Habitat for Humanity, Samaritas Family Center, and Hospitality House.
Verified · C&G Newspapers
CommunityBloomington, Minnesota
A Bloomington cashier met a nervous nurse with flowers and a hug
A Trader Joe's cashier named Tim noticed a nurse who was anxious about returning to work after mental health leave and gave her flowers and chocolate.
Verified · MPR News
HeroesFlorence, Kentucky
A boy born at 1 pound celebrates his fourth birthday with the firefighters who saved him
Graham, born four months early and once dependent on a ventilator, now lives without medical equipment. He celebrated with the Florence Fire/EMS crew that trained for his care and later saved his life.
Verified · WLWT
AnimalsCanterbury, United Kingdom
A Canterbury group is learning to free pigeons from tangled feet
Canterbury and Thanet Stringfoot Pigeons trained this month to remove string and hair from city birds without taking them from their flock.
Verified · BBC
CommunityOklahoma City, Oklahoma
A Cheyenne and Arapaho drum-making workshop keeps songs going in Oklahoma City
Seventy people made drums at a Cheyenne and Arapaho workshop in Oklahoma City. About 500 drums have been made through the gatherings in recent years.
Verified · KOSU
CommunityAtewa Range
A cocoa farmer on the Atewa hills is growing the crop under trees
Susana Afrifa Ankrah plants African mahogany among her cocoa, uses compost instead of clearing and burning, and says the plants do better in the shade.
Verified · Positive News
CommunityDayton, Ohio
A Dayton teen's birthday wish collected 41,000 period products
Autumn May, 13, set out to collect 5,000 period products for Dayton students and, with help from Miss Ohio USA's coalition, passed 41,000.
Verified · WHIO
HeroesElko, Nevada
A flight nurse and a paramedic delivered a premature baby midflight
REACH and Guardian Flight crew members Steve Hardesty and Misae Nomiyama delivered baby Lacy safely during a climb. Both are 2026 Stars of Life, and they reunite with the family in Elko on Oct. 23.
Verified · 2 News Nevada
CommunityHope, Scituate
A Hope man invited the whole street to his Pumpkin Spectacular
Mike Castelli, 25, hand-delivered invitations to his Halloween display. Neighbors turned out, met for the first time, and donated to his Special Olympics team.
Verified · NBC 10 WJAR
Health & TechGolden, Colorado
A Mines-born wristband that lets people feel a smile is a TIME Best Invention
HapWare's ALEYE pairs smart glasses with a haptic wristband that turns a smile, a wave, or a handshake into vibrations. It grew out of a Colorado School of Mines capstone with a blind co-founder, and it does not restore sight.
Verified · Colorado School of Mines
CommunityNederland, Colorado
A new Nederland childcare center nearly triples spots for mountain families
TEENS, Inc.'s Explorers Learning Center holds 60 children, is already about 70 percent full, and will not turn families away over cost. Nederland's first infant care opens Monday.
Verified · CBS Colorado
CommunityGilsland Farm, Falmouth
A new wheelchair-friendly trail opens at Gilsland Farm
Maine Audubon opened a trail of more than 2,000 feet at Gilsland Farm in Falmouth, through the woods to an overlook on the estuary.
Verified · NEWS CENTER Maine
HeroesMorayfield, Australia
A reporter and a bystander pulled a driver from floodwater in Morayfield
Will Murray and Daniel Hainey swam to a four-wheel-drive that stalled on Buchanan Road after about 170 millimetres of rain.
Verified · ABC News
CommunityGreensboro, North Carolina
A second grader rubs a genie lamp and her mom appears
Isabella Myers rubbed a lamp in the office at David J. Jones Elementary, and her mother, servicemember Quiana Quiros, walked in.
Verified · WXII 12
CommunityBryan, Texas
A Texas A&M sophomore's Y'alloween gives kids free costumes
BJ Rottinghaus started the costume giveaway in high school. It now reaches children in shelters in Bryan-College Station, Houston, and Austin.
Verified · KBTX
HeroesToms River, New Jersey
A Toms River teacher quietly gave part of her liver to a friend's baby
Courtney Olsen donated part of her liver to 1-year-old CJ Fischetti, who has Alagille syndrome. He is home and thriving, and the families met by chance at a flag football game.
Verified · Patch
HeroesLake Charles, Louisiana
A two-time breast cancer survivor in Lake Charles guides others through diagnosis
KPLC Hometown Hero Nancy Thomas organizes walks and helps with gas vouchers, wigs, and mammograms for people who are newly facing breast cancer.
Verified · KPLC
CommunityValdosta, Georgia
A Valdosta 10-year-old raised $400 selling bracelets
Graham Haskin made bracelets, raised $400 in two weeks, and bought food, water, and supplies for LAMP, which serves people experiencing homelessness.
Verified · WCTV
CommunityWing, North Dakota
A Wing couple keeps prairie history alive in Grandma's House
Larry and Judy Bergquist share a lifetime of collections, from a 1960s pump organ to working antique tractors, so neighbors can see how they grew up.
Verified · KFYR
AnimalsBirmingham area
An Alabama ranch gives frightened horses a second chance
Tyler Isenmann's Best Chance Ranch, in the Birmingham area, rehabilitates horses that were neglected or headed for slaughter and then finds them homes.
Verified · ABC 33/40
AnimalsHartstown, Pennsylvania
Bald eagle Ursa flies free, with the trooper who found her watching
Tamarack Wildlife Center released a young eagle that fell from her nest in June. After four months of care, the trooper who found her watched her go.
Verified · Erie News Now
AnimalsNu'utele Island
Birds are nesting again on Nu'utele after rats and pigs were removed
A year of fieldwork on the Samoan island was followed by new dove nests, a starling nest, and seedlings on the forest floor.
Verified · Good News Network
CommunityNorth Charleston, South Carolina
Blind veterans in North Charleston received smart glasses that read print
The Palmetto Council of the Blind and Meta gave Ray-Ban Meta glasses to legally blind veterans. The glasses can read mail and menus aloud. They do not restore sight.
Verified · ABC News 4 (WCIV)
HeroesLongview, Texas
East Texas veterans came home to cheers from a Heroes Flight
Fifteen veterans from the Longview area and fifteen from Tulsa returned from a trip Brookshire Grocery Company paid for. Families filled East Texas Regional Airport on Wednesday night.
Verified · Longview News-Journal
HeroesSt. Paul, Minnesota
Ebro Ahmed stopped a runaway St. Paul school bus
Ahmed, 27, saw the driver in an apparent seizure, jumped aboard, and pulled the emergency brake. The district said no one was hurt, and the driver is home recovering.
Verified · Good Morning America
AnimalsEdinburgh, United Kingdom
Edinburgh Zoo welcomed two Asiatic lion cubs, its first in seven years
Bindee and Jay's cubs were born on October 11. They will stay off exhibit for several months, and the habitat is closed while keepers watch them on camera.
Verified · STV News
HeroesFolsom, California
Folsom officers kept CPR going until a patient was awake again
Officers Chernyavskiy and Sena started CPR at a September cardiac arrest. Folsom firefighters joined them, the patient regained circulation, and was awake before leaving for the hospital.
Verified · Folsom Times
AnimalsAttidiya, Sri Lanka
Forty-five treated wild animals left the Attidiya rescue centre for the forest
Deer, grey langurs, a pangolin, a fishing cat, snakes, tortoises, and macaques went back out on October 14.
Verified · Daily Mirror
CommunityCharlotte, North Carolina
Harvest Center of Charlotte is readying a $10 million campus for families
A 10-acre campus with housing, daycare, a gym, and a coffee shop is set for a ribbon-cutting on Nov. 17. It is being built to help families leave homelessness.
Verified · WBTV
ScienceHervey Bay, Australia
Hervey Bay humpbacks reach most of their adult length by about age seven
Drone measurements of living whales show the eastern Australian population growing up faster than other humpback groups measured the same way.
Verified · Phys.org
CommunityMoses Lake, Washington
In Moses Lake, a peer team with lived experience offers a place to start
NCW Peer Connection helps people with housing, school, jobs, and recovery, and keeps meals and showers available for whoever walks in.
Verified · Columbia Basin Herald
HeroesNorth Hills, Los Angeles
Los Angeles firefighters pulled three people from the Pacoima Wash
In the North Hills rain, LAFD crews took a woman from the wash in stable condition, lifted a man out by helicopter, and hoisted another man off a bridge abutment. A reported fourth person was already ashore.
Verified · ABC7 Los Angeles
CommunityChennai, India
More than 700 Chennai students braided 7,000 metres of discarded clothes
Chennai Online reported that fashion students at SRM Ramapuram attempted a 7,000-metre braid from about 700 kilograms of discarded clothes, for Goonj to turn into bags and mats.
Verified · Chennai Online
CommunityPikine, Senegal
Pikine opened a city mediatheque paid for from its own budget
Senegal's state news agency reported that the Dakar suburb inaugurated the building on October 21, at a cost of 600 million CFA francs.
Verified · Agence de Presse Sénégalaise
CommunityBoston, Massachusetts
Rebuilding Together Boston wins the first Karen Holmes Ward award
WCVB gave its first public-service award in Karen Holmes Ward's name to a nonprofit that has spent 35 years repairing homes for seniors, veterans, and families.
Verified · WCVB
ScienceLed from Piracicaba, across ten Neotropical countries
Regrowing tropical forests shaded out many non-native trees
Across 1,561 plots in ten Neotropical countries, exotic trees were common in the first decades and then lost ground as the canopy closed.
Verified · Phys.org
HeroesPinkham's Grant, New Hampshire
Search-and-rescue volunteers walked a hiker out from Glen Ellis Falls
Leva Lase fell on the rocky steps below Glen Ellis Falls and could not walk out alone. A search-and-rescue paramedic reached her first, and she climbed back to the trailhead with the crew.
Verified · News Center Maine
AnimalsPoniente Beach, Benidorm
Seven loggerheads raised in Valencia went back to the sea at Benidorm
Schoolchildren watched the turtles enter Poniente Beach after a year and two months of care at Oceanogràfic Valencia.
Verified · Cadena SER
AnimalsTenkasi, India
Tenkasi is asking students to watch out for the Madras hedgehog too
A school program that started with golden jackals is expanding to the Madras hedgehog after villagers reported sightings.
Verified · The Hindu
AnimalsHalnaker Hill, West Sussex
Thousands of butterflies turned up on restored West Sussex farmland
Counters recorded 5,290 butterflies on former wheat fields at Halnaker Hill, including small blues and dingy skippers never seen there before.
Verified · The Guardian
CommunitySaint-Brieuc, France
Three Saint-Brieuc bookshops are collecting children's books for Christmas
Until November 20, shoppers can buy an extra book and leave it for Secours populaire. Last year the three shops collected 70.
Verified · Ouest-France
AnimalsUllal de la Senillera, Albufera Natural Park
Twelve pond turtles were released into a spring in l'Albufera
European pond turtles raised at Oceanogràfic and El Palmar went into Ullal de la Senillera, part of the park's 40th year.
Verified · Europa Press
AnimalsSanctuary Mountain Maungatautari, Waikato
Two more kākāpō joined a fenced Waikato sanctuary, along with giant wētā
Sanctuary Mountain Maungatautari now has five kākāpō in a mainland trial, and 122 Mahoenui giant wētā were released into the same fenced forest.
Verified · RNZ
Health & TechMilwaukee, Wisconsin
Two Wisconsin sisters are among the first to get gene therapy for genetic deafness
At Children's Wisconsin, 3-year-old Cleo and her sister Lennon had FDA-approved gene therapy surgery in July. They are responding to sounds such as a bark and their mother's humming. Results vary, and durability is unknown.
Verified · WPR
ScienceUpper Teesdale
Upper Teesdale's rare alpine plants get three years of seed funding
A local trust received £65,000 to collect seed from arctic-alpine plants and put it back on the fells with volunteers.
Verified · BBC
AnimalsColumbia, Missouri
Volunteers clear invasive honeysuckle from almost all of a Columbia park
After years of Missouri Conservation Corps work at Kiwanis Park, spring wildflowers have come back and sightlines have reopened across the 20-acre park.
Verified · KOMU
CommunityDried bed of the Aral Sea
Volunteers planted 500 saxaul shrubs on the dried bed of the Aral Sea
One hundred people from Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, and Kyrgyzstan put the shrubs in during the GREEN ARAL volunteer week.
Verified · BAQ.KZ