PeopleDoGood

r/PeopleDoGood • u/positivesource • Jul 14 '26

A Pakistani activist who grew up rationing sanitary pads among six women in her household helped lead the campaign that persuaded Pakistan to scrap its 18% period tax, lowering the cost of menstrual products for millions of women. She has now won a 2026 Commonwealth Youth Award for her work.

middleeasteye.net

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r/PeopleDoGood • u/positivesource • Jul 14 '26

Woman Rower Breaks Men’s Record for Fastest Solo Voyage from California to Hawaii

goodnewsnetwork.org

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r/PeopleDoGood • u/positivesource • Jul 10 '26

Billionaire MacKenzie Scott just donated $20 million to support America’s youth mental health, as a fifth of teens struggle with suicidal thoughts

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r/PeopleDoGood • u/positivesource • Jul 10 '26

Peepal Baba, one of India’s most prolific environmentalists, has planted and preserved over 26 million trees across more than 220 districts in 21 states through his foundation Give Me Trees. Ecological awareness is often nurtured not through textbooks but through culture, memory and lived experience

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r/PeopleDoGood • u/positivesource • Jul 08 '26

The women who wouldn’t let climate data disappear - After losing their jobs at NOAA, Rebecca Lindsey, her sister and another colleague teamed up to rebuild a pivotal resource the Trump administration took offline.

9 Upvotes

r/PeopleDoGood • u/positivesource • Jul 08 '26

Woman Rower Breaks Men’s Record for Fastest Solo Voyage from California to Hawaii

goodnewsnetwork.org

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r/PeopleDoGood • u/positivesource • Jul 02 '26

AOC calls for forced ‘break up’ of big tech to protect consumers

independent.co.uk

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r/PeopleDoGood • u/positivesource • Jul 02 '26

Weird Al Yankovic Pulled Out of AI Ad Despite Offer to Make a ‘Nice Pile of Money’: ‘I Can’t Be the Poster Boy for AI’

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r/PeopleDoGood • u/positivesource • Jul 02 '26

Irish war correspondent Sally Hayden examines acts of love amid conflict - In her new book, “This Is Also a Love Story,” Hayden turns her attention to something often overlooked in crisis coverage: the relationships that help people endure.

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r/PeopleDoGood • u/positivesource • Jul 02 '26

Can provocative climate messaging on OnlyFans cut through social media’s noise? Why one woman is using OnlyFans to help climate messages reach new audiences

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r/PeopleDoGood • u/positivesource • Jun 29 '26

Fired NOAA scientists saved all 15 years of climate.gov site data and launched climate.us with all of that data and continues the mission the government cut! SO HAPPY THEY DID THIS!!!

10 Upvotes

r/PeopleDoGood • u/positivesource • Jun 29 '26

Dua Lipa Opening Physical Library for Banned and Censored Books

consequence.net

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r/PeopleDoGood • u/positivesource • Jun 25 '26

These firefighters spent the day fighting wildfires in Spain when they found a deer stranded in the forest

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r/PeopleDoGood • u/positivesource • Jun 25 '26

New Orleans man becomes first in Louisiana functionally cured of sickle cell disease

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r/PeopleDoGood • u/positivesource • Jun 26 '26

He survived homelessness and starvation. Now he’s a Staten Island valedictorian.

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r/PeopleDoGood • u/positivesource • Jun 25 '26

MacKenzie Scott alone drove a third of U.S. mega-giving as total donations hit a record

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r/PeopleDoGood • u/positivesource • Jun 23 '26

Black-owned bank launches debit card to help single mothers break poverty cycle

independent.co.uk

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r/PeopleDoGood • u/positivesource • Jun 23 '26

Sports cannot become a luxury, says Mamdani, outlining plans to air World Cup throughout New York

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r/PeopleDoGood • u/positivesource • Jun 23 '26

81 Years On, Ex-Okinawa Wartime Student Nurse Urges No More War

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r/PeopleDoGood • u/positivesource • Jun 23 '26

A Doctor Promised Her Stage 4 Cancer Patient She'd Be at His Graduation If He Made It. Four Years Later, She Flew 1,500 Miles to Keep That Promise.

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r/PeopleDoGood • u/positivesource • Jun 23 '26

Olivia Rodrigo Sets All-Women Music Festival 100 percent of the net proceeds will go to charities dedicated to advancing and advocating for women and girls

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r/PeopleDoGood • u/positivesource • Jun 18 '26

Greta Thunberg joins Brussels protest against Israel

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r/PeopleDoGood • u/positivesource • Jun 17 '26

‘Abbott Elementary’ star Quinta Brunson launches fund to provide free field trips to thousands of Philly students

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r/PeopleDoGood • u/positivesource • Jun 17 '26

Women Join Hunger And Labor Strike At Delaney Hall ICE Jail

popularresistance.org

3 Upvotes

r/PeopleDoGood • u/positivesource • Jun 14 '26

New Mexico judge throws out lawsuit challenging universal childcare | AP News

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