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Dr. Anisa Ibrahim was 5 years old when her life was uprooted by the grisly consequences of a gruesome civil war.

Source: A Somali refugee just became the director of the Seattle clinic where she was cared for as a child – CNN

Lovely, and poetic.

On the streets of Milwaukee, children without car seats is a problem for the police.

Source: Instead of writing a ticket, an officer bought car seats for a mother in Wisconsin

Well done, sir.

Lyndsey Raby was happy to share the spotlight with her favorite women.

Source: Bride asks her 4 grandmothers to be flower girls

How cool…

Tina Bejarano gave birth at age 17 to a baby girl she believed had died. She learned she actually has a son, who is alive and well, with a child of his own. The new family will meet for the first time this Thanksgiving holiday.

Source: Mother who thought her newborn had died discovers he’s alive, and a dad, 29 years later – Los Angeles Times

Serendipity can be awesome. 🙂

What’s more relaxing than a healthy dose of pilates … and puppies? A pilates studio in central New York is now offering a class where for $25, you can do pilates while playing with puppies.

Source: A New York studio is offering ‘Puppy Pilates’ to raise money for veterans who can’t afford to train a service dog – CNN

Sounds like fun, for a great cause.

After having firsthand experience with the difficulties in life while being homeless, Jake Austin decided to make a difference for many of the struggling human beings he saw around his city of St. Louis, Missouri. He saw that one of the biggest discomforts his local homeless men and women faced was that they could not […]

Source: Man Turns Old Truck Into Mobile Shower For Homeless People To Get Clean, Warm And Keep Their Dignity

Pretty cool idea.

Father João Paulo Araujo Gomes does the kindest and most inspiring thing for stray dogs around his church in Brazil. He invites forgotten dogs from the streets to become a part of his service to help them find loving homes.

Source: A Kind Priest Brings Stray Dogs To Mass So They Can Find New Families | Bored Panda

St. Francis would approve.

A spectrum of vivid hues were incorporated throughout a mixed-use building in Chicago by John Ronan Architects that contains a public library at ground level and low-cost senior housing up above.

Source: John Ronan’s affordable housing in Chicago has colourful balconies

Environmentally friendly + good looking + affordable housing = a great combination!

“We work together to make a fun bee hotel so the bees can fit their fuzzy little buns in.”

Source: These Girl Scouts are saving wild bees, one ‘hotel’ at a time | Grist

Cool project on several levels.

Coy Featherston’s former classmate canvassed Austin for four days until she found him feeding pigeons outside a church.

Source: Austin American-Statesman ran front-page photo of homeless man. Friends rallied to help. – The Washington Post

Lovely story and outcome.