In 2013, while a cinema full of people where watching Christian Bale in The Dark Knight Rises, a gunman shot 12 people dead. Christian turned up at the Colorado hospital to visit the victims.
Diagnosed with spindel cell sarcoma, Daniel Fleetwood found out from his doctors in July 2015 that he only had about two months to live. Daniel’s dying wish was to see 'Star Wars: The Force Awakens' which was scheduled to come out in December of that same year. Director J.J. Abrams invitd him to a special showing of an unfinished, unedited version of the film.
Zach Galifianakis took a 87 year old homeless woman from a launderette who would fold clothes for tips to the 'The Hangover Part III' premiere and then found her a flat and paid the rent.
Paul Walker overheard a couple in a jewellery shop debating if they could afford a $10,000 engagement ring. Walker bought the ring, handed it to the dumbstruck couple and walked out the shop.
Taylor Swift Paid $50,000 of an 11 year olds fans Cancer-Stricken Fan’s Medical Bills and another $5,000 to cover the funeral costs of a fan who died in a car crash. She also donated $1m to help Flood relief efforts.
Keanu Reeves handed over 70% of his £75 million salary from the first The Matrix film in order to fund leukemia research.
Christian Bale flew a 4-year-old leukemia patient and his family to California to have a lunch date together at Disneyland.
Oxford University student Fiona Asiedu set up a crowdfunding campaign to raise £12,000 to go to Harvard, Grime artist Stormzy saw it and donated £9,000.
George Michael handed over royalties from a number of his songs to Ethiopian famine relief efforts and left a hard up student nurse working as a barmaid a £5,000 tip and anonymously gave £15,000 to a couple for IVF treatment.
Colin Farrell took a homeless man on a £2,100 shopping spree, buying him clothes and money to help rent a room.
Johnny Depp regularly hires homeless people to be extras in his films
Sia ran through the checkouts of Walmart and a TJ Maxx, tapping her card to pay for many people's shopping
JK Rowling posted a 15 year old Harry Potter fan who had survived a shooting that killed her parents and had quoted Dumbledore's speech that 'Happiness can be found even in the darkest times if one only remembers to turn on the light' at their funeral, a letter comforting her with a 'Dumbledore' letter.
When the people of Flint found themselves with no clean water due to lead poisoning, Cher donated 181,000 bottles of clean water.
Justin Timberlake saw a fundraiser to buy a wheelchair-accessible van for a 17-year-old with cerebral palsy, he bought her the van and left a note saying 'Have a great holiday'.
James McAvoy donated £275,000 to buy masks for front line NHS staff during the Covid pandemic
When Marilyn Manson heard that one of his fans dying wishes was to meet the singer, he not only went to the boys house armed with merchandise but stayed and played video games with him, played guitar and read Beano comics with him.
The wife of the guy who ran an anti-Michael Moore website wife was taken ill with a neurological disorder but with no medical insurance, he was struggling to pay for her health care. In desperation, he posted a note on his site pleading for help and stating that he would 'be in your debt for all of time' for any assistance in these troubled times. Mr Kenefick received a cheque from an anonymous individual for a lump sum of $12,000, equivalent to a year's medical fees for his wife.
After some digging to find out the identity of the altruistic donor it was revealed as the man he had dedicated years to bad mouthing. Confirmation came from Moore himself, who left a message on Mr Kenefick's answer machine confirming that he was the donor, adding: 'I wish you my best'.
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I organized ten mission trips with between 20 to 35 college students per trip. We repaired homes for people that couldn't afford to fix their homes. We roofed homes, replaced floors, doors, windows, collapsing walls, and more on over two hundred homes.
Further, the repairs were free to the homeowners because we, the volunteers on the mission trip, contributed enough money to buy all the materials. Local churches provided the necessary construction tools and let us sleep, cook, clean, and eat in their buildings - mostly for free. Local lumber yards sold us materials at no profit.
We did the same with high school students on another 15 mission trips.
Lot of good going around if one knows where to look.
Well done, good for you and the students
also the local churches that let us use their facilities (sort of), and local businesses (sort of) that didn't have to sell us materials at a discount.
oh, and the towns typically allow us to use the local landfill free of charge to dispose of the construction rubbish.
so, yeah, lot of good around if one looks...
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