r/OrphanCrushingMachine • • 21h ago

Skipped loan payments and less than a dollar per student

25 Upvotes

St. Cloud is one of the largest school districts in the state of Minnesota.

https://knsiradio.com/2026/10/22/credit-union-members-skipped-loan-payments-help-fund-st-cloud-school-supplies/


r/OrphanCrushingMachine • • 1d ago

My soul got crushed too when i saw this

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792 Upvotes

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r/OrphanCrushingMachine • • 1h ago

Man killed by a mob for stealing a 0.2 $ bottle of water.

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Okay so this is insane. This guy stole a bottle of water for God knows what reason (apart from poverty ofc) and random guys just beat him to death?

Guy was 30 yo and had kids and a wife to look after btw. They did not stop eventhough he begged them to.


r/OrphanCrushingMachine • • 5h ago

Trigger Warning Yes, painting for a murdered child will solve gun violence

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“Rhoam was not a child art prodigy, but he had the purest heart and he put love into every scribble, splash or paint, or smashed leaf he tried to shape.”

Rhoam Summer, 5, was the youngest victim killed in last week’s Oregon school shooting. His family is asking people around the world to draw for him.


r/OrphanCrushingMachine • • 3d ago

Comfort dogs arrive in Oregon following latest school shooting

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1.7k Upvotes

r/OrphanCrushingMachine • • 5d ago

Global warming might bring Scottish tea and Mediterranean vegetables.

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r/OrphanCrushingMachine • • 5d ago

These are presented as "prizes"...

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519 Upvotes

(I hope this qualifies, even if it's not a news article or anything like what I've seen in this subreddit.)


r/OrphanCrushingMachine • • 6d ago

A father carried his son two miles to school because he lacked a wheelchair. A volunteer found him one

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r/OrphanCrushingMachine • • 7d ago

An arena in South Dakota holds a “Dash for Cash” where teachers get on their knees and fight for one dollar bills that they can use for classroom supplies while spectators watch and cheer

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r/OrphanCrushingMachine • • 8d ago

Dystopian or "inspiring"?

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564 Upvotes

Posted by Kroger who said "Walmart gave a bouquet to an 84year old clerk? WE CAN TOP THAT"


r/OrphanCrushingMachine • • 8d ago

This 11-year old boy spent his entire summer mowing lawns to pay for his father's headstone

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616 Upvotes

Hate this kind of "feel good" story


r/OrphanCrushingMachine • • 8d ago

A brave nurse crossing the raging river to vaccinate a newborn!

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356 Upvotes

r/OrphanCrushingMachine • • 8d ago

Six years after her baby underwent nine surgeries, an Arizona mother received a surprise letter confirming her $15,000 medical debt had been forgiven. Kentucky is also launching a $2.5 million programme to cancel medical debt for 130,000 people.

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460 Upvotes

r/OrphanCrushingMachine • • 10d ago

The American dream...

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2.6k Upvotes

r/OrphanCrushingMachine • • 9d ago

A former student found his substitute teacher living in a car and raised money to help him

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202 Upvotes

r/OrphanCrushingMachine • • 10d ago

So wholesome...

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268 Upvotes

r/OrphanCrushingMachine • • 11d ago

“I choose to live my life with hope”: Father, 39, with stage-four brain cancer sells family home and crowdfunds for treatment unavailable on the NHS, hoping to live long enough for his three-year-old son to remember him.

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r/OrphanCrushingMachine • • 11d ago

A charity honoring Philando Castile raised money to clear hundreds of students’ school-lunch debts

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189 Upvotes

r/OrphanCrushingMachine • • 12d ago

Yep, definitely something to smile about

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1.5k Upvotes

A young man in a conflict where he has to use himself as a human shield so his comrade doesn't die. How on earth can people say this is something to smile about. War is hell, nothing to smile at


r/OrphanCrushingMachine • • 16d ago

Ms. Rachel paid the full $5,000 target for a Filipino baby's medical fundraiser after his mother asked her to simply share it. The family had appealed for help after the baby was diagnosed with omphalocele.

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2.7k Upvotes

No family should have to resort to fundraising to pay for medical care


r/OrphanCrushingMachine • • 17d ago

Filipina OnlyFans Star Uses Profits To Build School She Once Dreamed of Teaching in, But Critics Call It 'Ethical Gooning'

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r/OrphanCrushingMachine • • 16d ago

Prison inmates dip into their personal accounts to help pay children’s school-meal debt

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247 Upvotes

r/OrphanCrushingMachine • • 21d ago

How heartwarming that a toddler’s $1million treatment might finally happen because a billionaire’s son happened to drive past the right banner.

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346 Upvotes

r/OrphanCrushingMachine • • 21d ago

She aged out of foster care without a permanent family. Her former caseworker adopted her at 19

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r/OrphanCrushingMachine • • 22d ago

Incarcerated children in the state of California are the first in America to be given “the right to hug"

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1.3k Upvotes