Inspirational articles about people and events that make our world a better place to live in. Heart-warming stories and positive news that will revive your belief in the good in people.
Playing For Change is a movement created to inspire and connect the world through music. The idea for this project came from a common belief that music has the power to break down boundaries and overcome distances between people. Playing For Change was born in 2002 as a shared vision between co-founders, Mark Johnson and Whitney Kroenke, to hit the streets of America…
Over the course of the next five years, De Bruyn Joubert is attempting to cycle coast to coast through all seven continents and 70 countries. The 29-year-old South African started last August, and he's already made it through Australia and much of Europe. "At the beginning of 2013 I didn't have any big commitments, so it was the perfect time to pursue something…
You can’t plan your life out, although most people certainly try. From the moment most of us enter school, we start thinking of how our lives will go. What college we will go to, what job we will get, how many kids we will have when we will get married. It’s an exhausting list of plans, checklists, and goals over things we really…
The necessity to shelter the homeless is a prevalent and widespread reality in many urban areas, including Oakland, California, the hometown of American artist Gregory Kloehn who is using his creative capacity as an action for change. As the founder of the ‘homeless homes project‘ — a community-driven initiative — Kloehn has realized a low-cost, practical, and imaginative solution for the construction of habitable…
This is the question that I have most asked myself down the years. What is life, and what makes for a good life? My way of thinking is that I always try and start with the foundations of an idea first and then work through the details. A lot of people seem to get stuck into the details first without any care for the…