On the last Friday of each month, We Are the World Blogfest invites bloggers to join together in promoting positive news.
“There are many an oasis of love and light out there, stories that show compassion and the resilience of the human spirit. Sharing these stories increases our awareness of hope in our increasingly dark world.”
During the first weeks of this year, Australia has been hit by unprecedented and devastating weather events all over the country, including bushfires, droughts, drenching rain and floods. While these events cause heartbreak for many and will take countless years for full recovery, they also provide an opportunity for bringing out the best in people.
When the drought-stricken North Queensland city of Townsville was hit with a deluge, people quickly reached out to others in need, even as they waited for help themselves.
This month I am sharing an inspiring story of a Townsville family who opened their home to “more than 60 flood-stricken people and their pets … as they waited to be rescued from rising floodwaters”.
Click here to read the whole article.
If you would like to join in, please check out the rules and links below.
Guidelines
1. Keep your post to Below 500 words, as much as possible.
2. Link to a human news story on your blog, one that shows love, humanity, and brotherhood. Paste in an excerpt and tell us why it touched you. The Link is important, because it actually makes us look through news to find the positive ones to post.
3. No story is too big or small, as long as it Goes Beyond religion and politics, into the core of humanity.
4. Place the WE ARE THE WORLD badge or banner on your Post and your Sidebar. Some of you have already done so, this is just a gentle reminder for the others.
5. Help us spread the word on social media. Feel free to tweet, share using the #WATWB hashtag to help us trend!
Tweets, Facebook shares, Pins, Instagram, G+ shares using the #WATWB hashtag through the month most welcome. We’ll try and follow and share all those who post on the #WATWB hashtag, and we encourage you to do the same.
The co-hosts for this month are:
Sylvia McGrath
Peter Nena
Shilpa Garg
Inderpreet Uppal
and Belinda Witzenhausen.
Please pop over to their blogs to read their stories, comment and share.
Click here to join in and enter the link to your post. The bigger the #WATWB group each month, the greater the joy!
Thank you for reading. I appreciate your comments. Please share your thoughts.
We need more stories of everyday heroes.
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We do. We need more stories and we need more heroes.
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It’s a nice reminder of how many amazing people there are in this world that just genuinely want to help others.
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Australia is not alone, Norah. The weather is weird everywhere. We are frying and having droughts and then flash floods and Charli is buried in snow.
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You’re right, Robbie. 🙂
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Thank goodness kindness is contagious. That’s one virus we need spread around the world. Beautiful story.
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It is indeed, Pamela. We are doing our best to spread it. One word at a time. 🙂
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Yes we are. And you know what? I think it’s making a difference!
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What joy! 🙂
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I’m sorry to hear about the devastating weather you’re having, Norah. Humanity really shows its beautiful colors in times of hardship xo
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I guess those beautiful colours are the one rainbow in a storm (literally and figuratively) of bad weather. Thanks for reading and commenting, Christy.
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I always try to read at least one good News Story a day from my computer Good New section:
like this one: Florida Firefighters…Name of Your Post Here
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That’s a great strategy for keeping faith in humanity, Jules and a good practice to keep. Enjoy!
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It’s such a heartwarming story, Norah. “There are so many people in the same boat.” Wow, that family welcome 60+ people in their family surely demonstrated extraordinary kindness. Thank you for sharing.
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Thank you for reading and commenting, Miriam. It was extraordinary kindness. There was a lot of it at the time, as if it was contagious – beautiful!
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Yes, we had that kind of situations and responses in our hurricane, forest fire, and mud sliding, homes burned, swept away and buried. People came out and help.
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Oh dear, Miriam. I’m sorry to hear you suffered those kinds of disasters but am pleased that people came out to help.
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Yes, somehow people survived and many returned to live in the same areas even though some disasters repeat every year.
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Stoic. People are amazing. 🙂
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Yes, I learned that people only use a small percentage of their power. The potential power come forth when they are in crises. 🙂
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That’s a good thing. It’s certainly needed then. 🙂
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I think so. 🙂
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The kids playing Nintendo, that lovely lady making sandwiches and tea, that man in his boat saying ‘can we bring in another family’ – a truly lovely story of humanity in action, thanks for sharing it Norah ..
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Thank you for reading and liking, Susan. It is a lovely story.
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That is beautiful. Helps me get a bit of that positive feeling back about human nature. Thanks for sharing this, Norah. I needed it. ❤️
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I’m pleased you enjoyed it, Sarah. We can’t have too many of these types of feel-good true stories.
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Completely agree. ❤
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We need more stories of everyday heroes. Thank you, Norah!
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Thank you, Jennie. We do!
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Amen!
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Fantastic people doing an amazing thing.. thanks for sharing Norah.. hugsx
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Thank you, Sally. People can be amazing. You do great things so many in the blogging community too. You’re amazing. 🙂
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I love how people just jump in and help when or where it is needed! We all need to show compassion towards others.
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It is wonderful, Patricia, isn’t it? Compassion is essential and highly valuable but totally free.
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I am constantly amazed by how much people help their neighbor, not asking “Who will fix this?” but turning to themselves. It gives me faith.
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I agree, Jacqui. It’s wonderful, and gives me faith in humanity as well.
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A beautiful share Norah. It’s heartwarming when we see there is still goodness in the world ❤
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It is indeed, Debby. I very much enjoyed the story you shared too. Though sad, it gives me very positive vibes for the future.
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That’s what this is all about Norah – sharing inspiration. ❤
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It sure is, Debby. 🙂
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I bet the kids thought it was one big sleepover — if they weren’t worrying about climate change!
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The children probably wouldn’t have quite the same worries as the adults. They look quite content in the photos. Hopefully, it will have been a lesson in resilience rather than fear.
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People are amazing when the chips are down. Thanks for sharing that story Norah. I hope you are riding out any odd weather situations safely.
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We’ve been high and dry here, Pauline. Thank you. We’d actually appreciate a little rain. 🙂
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true neighbours in every sense of the word, thanks Norah!
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Thank you, Kate.
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