AWESOME ACTS OF KINDNESS TO RESTORE YOUR FAITH IN HUMANITY

WHEN THE FUKUSHIMA NUCLEAR POWER PLANT

WAS DAMAGED BY THE TSUNAMI IN JAPAN

IN 2011, A GROUP OF MORE THAN 200

JAPANESE PENSIONERS VOLUNTEERED TO

TACKLE THE NUCLEAR CRISIS AT THE SITE.

THEY SAID THEY WANTED TO PERFORM THE

JOB AND FACE THE DANGER OF RADIATION

TO SPARE THE LIVES OF THE YOUNG

JONAS SALK, AMERICAN MEDICAL RESEARCHER

AND VIROLOGIST, DISCOVERED AND DEVELOPED

THE FIRST SUCCESSFUL POLIO VACCINE. SALK

COULD HAVE PATENTED THE VACCINE AND

BECOME VERY RICH, BUT HE HAD NO INTEREST

IN PERSONAL PROFIT. WHEN ASKED WHO

OWNED THE PATENT TO IT, SALK SAID,

"THERE IS NO PATENT. COULD YOU PATENT THE SUN?”

CESAR LARIOS, STUDENT AT THE ART INSTITUTE OF

FLORIDA, GOT STUCK IN AN ELEVATOR WITH AN

OLD LADY WHEN WORKING AS A MOVER.

AFTER SOME TIME, THE LADY STARTED TO HAVE

TROUBLES STANDING IN THE ELEVATOR,

SO LARIOS DROPPED TO ALL FOURS AND ACTED

AS A HUMAN BENCH FOR HER

WHEN TOM CRIST FROM CALGARY, CANADA, WON

$40 MILLION IN LOTTERY IN MAY 2013, HE DID NOT

SPEND A SINGLE DOLLAR OUT OF THIS ENORMOUS

SUM ON ANYTHING FOR HIMSELF. INSTEAD, HE

STAYED TRUE TO HIS PROMISE OF GIVING IT AWAY

AND HE DONATED ALL $40 MILLION TO A CANCER

CHARITY, IN HONOR OF HIS LATE WIFE, JAN, WHO

DIED OF LUNG CANCER IN FEBRUARY 2012

WHEN THE DEVASTATING HURRICANE SANDY HIT

THE US IN OCTOBER 2012, THIS STORE OWNER

HELPED PEOPLE WITHOUT POWER CHARGE THEIR

PHONES AND COMPUTERS FOR FREE

DURING THE WWII, NICHOLAS WINTON, BRITISH

HUMANITARIAN, ORGANIZED THE RESCUE OF 669

CHILDREN, MOST OF THEM JEWISH, FROM FORMER

CZECHOSLOVAKIA. WINTON FOUND HOMES FOR

THE CHILDREN AND ARRANGED FOR THEIR SAFE

PASSAGE TO BRITAIN. AS COURAGEOUS AND

ADMIRABLE AS THIS ACT WAS, IT WAS NOT UNTIL

1988 (ALMOST 50 YEARS LATER), WHEN THE WORLD

FOUND OUT ABOUT IT

DURING THE 2010 ZHENG-KAI MARATHON IN CHINA,

JACQUELINE NYETIPEI KIPLIMO, AN ELITE

KENYAN RUNNER, SAW A DISABLED CHINESE

ATHLETE STRUGGLING TO DRINK WATER. SHE

DECIDED TO RUN WITH HIM AND AID HIM

THROUGH ALL THE WATER STATIONS. THIS

SLOWED HER TIME NOT ONLY COSTING HER

FIRST PLACE (SHE CAME IN SECOND) BUT ALSO

THE $10,000 CASH PRIZE

IN AUGUST 2006, A SKYDIVING GROUP´S PLANE

CRASHED NEAR ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI. OUT OF THE

EIGHT PEOPLE ON BOARD, JUST TWO SURVIVED,

INCLUDING AUSTRALIAN KIMBERLY DEAR.

KIMBERLY ONLY SURVIVED THANKS TO THE

SACRIFICE OF ROBERT COOK, A 22-YEAR-OLD

SKYDIVING INSTRUCTOR WHO VOLUNTARILY

SHIELDED HER BODY AT THE MOMENT OF THE

IMPACT, LOSING HIS OWN LIFE IN THE ACT

WHEN TRAVIS SELINKA, A 10-YEAR-OLD BOY FROM

CARLSBAD, CALIFORNIA, LOST HIS HAIR HAS

AFTER WEEKS OF RADIATION TO TREAT HIS

BRAIN CANCER IN 2013, HE WAS VERY

APPREHENSIVE ABOUT RETURNING TO SCHOOL

WITHOUT HAIR. HOWEVER, HIS CLASSMATES

AT THE EL CAMINO CREEK ELEMENTARY

SCHOOL DECIDED TO STAND BY HIS SIDE BY

SHAVING THEIR HEADS IN A SHOW OF SUPPORT.

TRAVIS WAS BLOWN AWAY BY THE GESTURE