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Stork Sisters - The Hargila Army

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This week's inspiring video: Stork Sisters - The Hargila Army Having trouble reading this mail? View it in your browser . Not interested anymore? Unsubscribe   Video of the Week Oct 01, 2026   Stork Sisters - The Hargila Army   When Purnima Devi Barman realized that the Greater Adjutant stork in India was nearing extinction due to years of persecution, she ...

Six Million Trees, One Laser From a Plane

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DailyGood: News That Inspires - Oct 01, 2026 DailyGood News That Inspires Oct 01, 2026 "Earth teach me regeneration as the seed which rises in the spring." — William Alexander Six Million Trees, One Laser From a Plane From a light aircraft skimming over the Scottish Highlands, a laser quietly counted six million trees -- and what it found beneath the canopy is quietly extraordinary. Cambridge researchers used LiDAR technology and AI to survey 569 square kilometres of Cairngorms National Park, discovering that more than 2.65 million of those trees are young, newly growing -- forests reasserting themselves a...

When a Stranger Tucked in Her Son

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DailyGood: News That Inspires - Sep 30, 2026 DailyGood News That Inspires Sep 30, 2026 "The simple act of caring is heroic." — Edward Albert When a Stranger Tucked in Her Son She was alone with four children under seven, mid-immigration, mid-flight, mid-panic -- the kind of exhaustion that sits in your chest like stone. When the cabin lights dimmed somewhere over the dark hours of a 24-hour journey, she finally dozed off. When she woke, she looked across the aisle to find a stranger quietly pulling a blanket over her sleeping five-year-old and tucking him in -- gently, without fuss, with no audience he kne...

Nairobi Is Transforming Neglected Libraries Into Vibrant Civic Hubs

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DailyGood: News That Inspires - Sep 29, 2026 DailyGood News That Inspires Sep 29, 2026 "Every so often, in the midst of chaos, you come across an amazing, inexplicable instance of civic responsibility." — Kurt Vonnegut Nairobi Is Transforming Neglected Libraries Into Vibrant Civic Hubs When Sunil Totti needed a reliable place to prepare for a job interview -- somewhere the power wouldn't cut out mid-call -- he thought of Eastlands Library in Nairobi, a building he once avoided as "a very old and dusty place." That quiet reversal tells the larger story of Book Bunk, the nonprofit that has spen...

After Being Laid Off, She Gives Away 100 Cookies Every Weekend

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DailyGood: News That Inspires - Sep 28, 2026 DailyGood News That Inspires Sep 28, 2026 "I choose to put something positive into the world, and I feel like the energy that flows back is tenfold." — Liz Tierney After Being Laid Off, She Gives Away 100 Cookies Every Weekend Liz Tierney makes about 100 cookies on a weekend, and leaves them in one of the Little Free Libraries near her home. She began after being laid off from her job when “she spent a lot of time thinking about what she could do to make the world a better place.” A few years later, the cookies are usually gone in minutes. A neighbor says it is ...

This Week in DailyGood ...

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DailyGood: News That Inspires - Sep 27, 2026 DailyGood News That Inspires Sep 27, 2026 "When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves." — William Arthur Ward This Week's DailyGood Digest In this week’s reflection on Daily Good, we find light in unexpected places. We explored the power of collective kindness with a virtual  community reversing online bullying , showing how seeking the best in others radiates goodness within ourselves. In Northeast India, we discovered shops without shopkeepers , thriving on the fertile ground of deep trust a...

She Looked for Her 4th Grade Teacher for 22 Years. Finding Her Led to a Beautiful Twist.

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DailyGood: News That Inspires - Sep 27, 2026 DailyGood News That Inspires Sep 27, 2026 "That best portion of a man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love." — William Wordsworth She Looked for Her 4th Grade Teacher for 22 Years. Finding Her Led to a Beautiful Twist. For 22 years, Olivia Bean held onto the memory of a teacher whose name she didn't know - only that this woman had driven a child living in a motel home from school each day, offering her "a few minutes out of the day where I could just be a kid." When the search to find and thank her finally succee...