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For You Haiti Provides Education and Life-Saving Medical Care to Residents of La Gonave

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Alana Kaye was an Australian-based international flight attendant in 2015 until she decided to visit her sponsored children in Haiti through an organization called World Vision. One of the patients Kaye met during 2015 was a 3-year-old boy who had an omphalocele and needed surgery. Photo courtesy of For You Haiti.

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‘Autism Is Not a Spell That Gets Lifted—It’s a Way of Being’

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During the Night of Too Many Stars autism fundraiser in March 2015, 24-year-old Owen Suskind dressed in gray slacks and a V-neck sweater hurried onstage, clearly excited to meet his idol—and not at all self-conscious about it. He learned to work the remote control and would rewind and rewatch certain scenes. Hello, Gilbert!”

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Not All Stories Have Happy Endings—For This Entrepreneur, It Was Still Worth It

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After a major activewear retailer copied multiple designs in 2015, K-DEER fans started the hashtag #IStandWithKDEER to express their support for K-DEER and call for a boycott, which ultimately led the brand to pull the items. Rising costs meant they also had to test international options for raw goods and manufacturing. “I

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29 Beautiful Stories That Will Restore Your Faith in Humanity

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Low on traditional options, Leeuw discovered Neuroworx , a low-cost therapy center in Utah founded by a former quadriplegic, that allowed him to recuperate at his own pace for a tiny fraction of what traditional care would have cost. Then, in 2015, fueled by the revelatory experience, he opened NeuroHope. Mary Carlomagno.

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How to Launch (and Maintain) a Successful E-Commerce Business

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When I read it in 2015, I was working both a full-time government job and launching a side business that would eventually eat up 80 hours of my week. Grow Your E-Commerce Business Create systems Automate everything Learn to delegate Collaborate Always Be Monitoring Step 7. With what you learn below, you can avoid my mistakes.

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Here’s how your climate-related choices are contagious (in a good way!)

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One of the biggest reasons our personal lifestyle choices matter when it comes to the climate crisis is that what we do changes us. In 2015, two geographers noticed solar panels popping up on houses in their small US state of Connecticut. Because it brought down the “cost” of information. They gave me a sense of efficacy.

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