Not All News is Bad!

Five years ago, just one in four children went to preschool in Uzbekistan. A fleet of book-filled buses is improving the odds

Source: Uzbekistan’s solution to a lack of preschools? Kindergartens on wheels

What a cool idea.

Today roughly one in 10 children live in families whose resources are considered below the poverty line, a 59% drop over the last 26 years.

Source: The Unprecedented Decline in U.S. Child Poverty—Down 59% in 26 Years

Positive progress worth remembering.

Lena and Yolanda were young girls when they met on a 14-day ocean crossing toward Ellis Island. Now they are reunited as forever friends.

Source: Young Girls Who Met on a Ship Sailing for America 75 Years Ago are Reunited: ‘I could never forget her’

Very cool.

Seven adult lions and two cubs rescued from a zoo in war-torn Ukraine are now residing at wildlife refuges in Colorado.

Source: Lions rescued from Ukraine find their “forever home” at Colorado sanctuaries

There’s been a quiet, yet intense, effort to help the animals affected by the conflict as well. This is just one (shining) example.

But now change is in the air: Malaria is the rare global health scourge about which experts are sanguine — so much so that some have begun to talk about eradicating the disease.

Source: At Long Last, Can Malaria Be Eradicated?

Amazing times.

Tammy Holloway-Servedio was stunned to discover she had a sister named Shari Ritchkin — that they are both pilots was the icing on the cake.

Source: Pilots Discover They’re Long-Lost Sisters — And Had Likely Crossed Paths Dozens of Times: Exclusive

Very cool.

“When somebody offers you help here, you know you should take it. Because it comes from the heart,” said Scott Legried.

Source: A farmer was injured saving a puppy. His town rallied to bring in his harvest.

Community at its best.

When it’s perched on a roof, the tech uses the aerodynamic effect of the wall below it. “The building amplifies the wind speed,”

Source: These mini wind turbines are designed for rooftops

Very cool idea.

Jessica Wade began writing Wikipedia biographies about women and minority scientists who never got their due — from employers, from other scientists, from the public.

Source: This 33-year-old made more than 1,000 Wikipedia bios for unknown women scientists

Attention well deserved, across the board.

City dwellers spend weekends fixing houses and creating bonds with older generation in former occupied villages

Source: ‘We take care of each other’: the young Ukrainians rebuilding more than just homes

The worst brings out the best.