Goodnewspaper (uplifting media – look for the helpers!)
Goodnewspaper is a lovely monthly newspaper from the USA (in a digital edition if you don’t want to pay shipping costs for it to be sent from abroad). Try the first month for free! It focuses on sharing the good in the world, and leaving you feeling more hopeful and informed, after reading it.
It has a super post on how to help Ukraine (including organisations that help animals in war zones)).
You can also subscribe to the goodnewsletter and the Sounds Good podcast that hosts interviews with those who are helping to make the world a better place.
Founder Branden Harvey was inspired to create a community of 500,000 world-changers, from a quote by Fred Rogers:
When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, “Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.”
Each edition of the newspaper follows a theme. For example:
The helpers
- Providing life-saving aid in Gaza
- Protecting immigrant neighbours in communities
The fashion edition
- Making clothing disability-inclusive
- How textile recycling is slowing fast fashion
- A lesson in upcycling clothes
The dog edition
- How volunteer vets help dogs of homeless people
- Heart-warming science on dog companionship
The education edition
- How ‘free-range kids’ are understanding nature
- Dolly Parton’s legacy on children’s literacy
Also read good news stories online for free!
Goodgoodgood is the accompanying website, with free good news to make you feel better, from across the world. Recent stories on the website include:
- Park rangers rescue a baby elephant from a trough, to reunite with mum!
- A Portland coffee shop plans to build a free cafe in Gaza called ‘The Departmene of Peace’ (you may know that Trump recently created a Department of War)
- Radar sensors will now cause trains to automatically stop, to let migrating elephants pass, to stop them being involved in collisions
- A unique village of tiny homes is housing homeless seniors
- After a Trump bill that saw many children lose access to free meals, inmates at a Kansas prison raised $4000 to pay off school lunch debt, for children they didn’t know
