Every day we pick six true stories about people helping others. Next to each one is something small you could do that day, like translating for a refugee from your phone or mapping buildings for a disaster crew. Read what you like, and act on the one that moves you, if any does.
Anyone can read the stories and do the actions. Members can also save an action for later, keep a record of what they've done, and send the person or group they helped a link so they can reply. Membership is by request while the site is new, and members must be 18 or older.
On the afternoon of November 25, 2025, after several days of lava spilling from vents at the summit of Kīlauea in Hawaiʻi, the north vent began to fountain. The fountains climbed 500 to 600 feet and spread lava across a broad part of the crater floor, and early estimates put the volume at about 6 million cubic meters. It was episode 37 of a summit eruption that had come in bursts all year, each one tracked and photographed by scientists at the USGS Hawaiian Volcano Observatory.
When Hurricane Helene hit Southern Appalachia in late September 2024, East Tennessee State University and Marsh Regional Blood Center held a two-day blood drive at the student center in Johnson City, Tennessee. Donors from the campus and the surrounding community set a record for the drive, with 674 people giving blood. All of the blood collected stays in the region, where Marsh Regional supplies 20 medical facilities, regional cancer centers and five air rescue bases across Tennessee, Virginia and Kentucky. The blood center says each donation can help save up to three lives, and organizers thanked donors for their "overwhelming generosity."
In July 2024 a car turned into motorcyclist Fred King's lane in Idaho Falls, Idaho. Another bystander had already made a tourniquet from a belt when Jake Allred, a Stop the Bleed instructor, pulled over and replaced it with a proper tourniquet from his own first-aid kit. Allred said his training "automatically kicked in." King lost his leg and spent eight weeks in the hospital, then practiced for five months on a prosthetic leg and was riding again. In May 2026 he met the people who helped him at Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center, where nearly 7,000 local residents have taken the hospital's Stop the Bleed class.
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