In addition to finding food to eat and a place to sleep, the homeless experience great difficulty in washing and drying what they are wearing, often the only clothes they have. Pope Francis has opened a free laundromat for the poor of Rome. It will soon be expanded to includeContinue Reading
One Down’s Syndrome man has overcome the odds to become a champion weightlifter. Not just in special Olympics competitions – Jon Stoklosa regularly beats the best of his non-disabled opponents!When he was 12-years-old Jon started lifting weights in the basement with his brothers. A year later he was benching 185Continue Reading
Daniel Kish, 47, has been blind since he was 13 months old. He noticed that when he made clicking noises with his tongue, it actually helped him navigate. As he got better at it, he learned how to see by clicking and listening for the sound to reflect off nearbyContinue Reading
Tim Harris has an amazing story of inspiration and hope. How many people can say they own their own restaurant, and also have WAY more gold medals than Olympian Michael Phelps?! Just hours after Tim was born, doctors told his parents that he had Down Syndrome, and many friendsContinue Reading
Jack Jablonski was a great high school hockey player, but when a bad hit from another player made him paralyzed, most people thought he’d never be part of hockey again. Jack knew better though 🙂 He has had an incredible amount of support during his rehabilitation and is making someContinue Reading
Malik Champlain was born March 23, 1985 in Brooklyn, NYC. His mother raised him with no father in the picture. Growing up, Malik had speaking problems which hindered him from speaking his first words until he was 4 years old. To make things worse, he found out he had hearingContinue Reading
Some people look at $26,500 in student loan debt and call it LIFE… Brian McBride on the other hand called it a challenge. He made it his goal to get rid of this debt in as short of time as possible. Brian, like most people, racked up most of theContinue Reading
Could Kelvin Doe be the next Tony Stark, aka Ironman? Kelvin is a 15 year old self taught prodigy from Sierra Leone. “I love inventing”, Kevin says. He goes through trash and discarded materials, finds broken parts, and makes his own inventions. The electrical grid in Sierra Leone can beContinue Reading
You can’t keep a good man down — especially not Matt W., who just single-handedly made us vow to never say we’re too tired for the gym again. The determined student, who has spastic cerebral palsy, was given the option to sit out field day at Worthington, Ohio’s Colonial HillsContinue Reading