People Doing Good

She sought to have her entire empire inoculated. Catherine is quoted as saying, “My objective was, through my example, to save from death the multitude of my subjects who, not knowing the value of this technique, and frightened of it, were left in danger.”

Rhino deaths have surged in South Africa, but a group of women has reduced poaching by 76 percent within their area of operation since 2013.

Chicago-based coffee shop Sip of Hope is the first coffee shop in the world putting all of its proceeds toward proactive suicide prevention and mental health education. Jonny Boucher dreamed up the idea for the shop in November 2017.

Like many people, Dr. Hadiyah-Nicole Green’s life has been marred by cancer. Both her aunt and uncle, who raised Green after she lost her parents, were diagnosed with the disease while she was in school. 

One study found that over 70% of wrongful convictions in the US can be at least partly blamed on incorrect eyewitness testimony.

In 1995, he founded the Equal Justice Initiative, a nonprofit organization that seeks fair sentences for minorities, the poor, and, especially, children who find themselves in the justice system.