One Good Thing

A man works on the roof of the dilapidated 16th-century Brukenthal Castle, during repairs done by volunteers supporting the Ambulance for Monuments project in Micasasa, Romania, Saturday, June 5, 2021. Since it launched, Ambulance for Monuments has rescued 55 historical structures — from medieval churches to historic fortification walls, from old watermills to ancient UNESCO World Heritage Sites — from descending into complete ruin.(AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

Romania’s monument ‘ambulance’ races to save country’s past

On a scorching summer day in the remote Transylvanian village of Micasasa, 39-year-old Romanian architect Eugen Vaida is busy coordinating a team of volunteers helping to breathe new life into a centuries-old Romanian castle on the brink of ruin.

Elise Montanti, founder and director of the Global Medical Relief Fund, greets Mwigulu Matonange along with three other albino children from Tanzania as they arrive at JFK International Airport, Friday, May 28, 2021, in New York. The pandemic put a hold on international travel, and on the services Montanti has facilitated for the more than 450 kids who have passed through her care. As restrictions have begun lifting across the country, the Staten Island woman is bringing her charity back to life. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)

After pandemic pause, one woman’s crusade for kids resumes

In this June 13, 2021 photo provided by Melissa Burns, Islesboro Central School seniors prepare to toss their mortarboards to celebrate their graduation. The Class of 2021 – all 13 of them – were eyeing a trip to Greece, or maybe South Korea, but they wound up going nowhere. The seniors decided to donate $5,000 to help out struggling neighbors after the coronavirus pandemic changed everything. (Melissa Burns via AP)

To aid island during pandemic, students forgo senior trip

In this Saturday, May 29, 2021, photo, provided by Gregg Gelmis, Kelly Moïse hugs her son Kieran after cutting the last braid from his hair during a live donation fundraiser, "Kieran's Curls for Cancer," for the nonprofit Children with Hair Loss in Huntsville, Ala. So far, they've raised $35,000. (Courtesy of Gregg Gelmis via AP)

Alabama teenager donates his hair for children with cancer

Zlata Ristic, 27, center, Elma Dalipi, 14, left, Silvia Sinani, 24, 2nd left, Dijana Ferhatovic, 18, 3rd left, Zivka Ferhatovic, 20, 2nd right, and Selma Dalipi, 14, members of the Pretty Loud band, practice at a music studio in Belgrade, Serbia, Wednesday, June 16, 2021. A female Roma, or Gypsy, band in Serbia has used music to preach women's empowerment within their community. Formed in 2014, “Pretty Loud” symbolically seeks to give a louder voice to Roma girls, encourage education and steer them away from the widespread custom of early marriage. (AP Photo/Marko Drobnjakovic)

Serbian Roma girl band sings for women’s empowerment

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Doctor David Vallejo and his fiancee Doctor Mavelin Bonilla rest at home in Quito, Ecuador, Wednesday, June 9, 2021. Doctor Vallejo and Doctor Bonilla suspended their wedding in order to tend to COVID-19 patients and in the process, Vallejo got sick himself with the disease, ending up in an ICU for several days. (AP Photo/Dolores Ochoa)

COVID hits Ecuador doctors who delayed wedding to treat sick

Trekking guide Ang Phurba Sherpa speaks during an interview with The Associate Press in Kathmandu, Nepal, Monday, June 7, 2021. Most Sherpa guides in Nepal famed for the climbing skills have had little or no work guiding foreign trekkers on Nepal's mountains because of the pandemic but trekking guide Ang Phurba Sherpa is spending his savings to help fellow guides and workers who are struggling for their livelihood. (AP Photos/Bikram Rai)

Sherpa guide uses savings to help colleagues during pandemic

Avian ecologist and Georgetown University Ph.D. student Emily Williams holds a robin to examine its wings, Wednesday, April 28, 2021, in Cheverly, Md. “Realizing that this tiny animal that can fit in the palm of your hand can travel thousands and thousands of miles one way in spring, and then does it again later in the year, was just amazing to me,” she said. “I have always been dazzled by migration.” (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

For love of birds: Backyard sleuths boost scientists’ work

Nada Waked, a Lebanese woman who helped provide a small amount of medications for free, gestures as she speaks at her house, in Sabtiyeh neighborhood, east of Beirut, Lebanon, Monday, June 7, 2021. In late May, Lebanon's central bank said that it cannot continue with its subsidies of medical items without dipping into the mandatory reserves, and asked authorities to find a solution. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

In Lebanon, a search for medicine and a stranger’s help

Yahya Adams, of Ghana, right, and Jawad Jawad, of Pakistan, work on a grapevine at the Nardi vineyard in Casal del Bosco, Italy, Thursday, May 27, 2021. It is a long way, and a risky one. But for this group of migrants at least it was worth the effort. They come from Ghana, Togo, Sierra Leone, Pakistan, Guinea Bissau, among other countries. They all crossed the Sahara desert, then from Libya the perilous Mediterranean Sea until they reached Italian shores, now they find hope working in the vineyards of Tuscany to make the renown Brunello wine. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

Asylum-seekers help produce Italy’s famous Brunello wine

CORRECTS ID TO JIM MERTHE NOT JIM STRICKLAND Two days after Debby-Neal Strickland, front left, and Jim Merthe were married in November, Debby donated a kidney to James' ex-wife Mylaen Merthe, center back, as the three get together Tuesday, May 25, 2021, at a restaurant in Ocala, Fla. (AP Photo/John Raoux)

Woman donates kidney to hubby’s ex-wife days after wedding

Adolfo Damian Berdun, of Argentina, a professional player and captain of the Argentine basketball Paralympic team, teaches children basketball at a primary school in Verano Brianza, on the outskirts of Milan, Italy, Tuesday, May 11, 2021. Four second-grade classes in the Milan suburb of Verano Brianza have been learning to play basketball this spring from a real pro. They also getting a lesson in diversity. Their basketball coach for the last month has been Adolfo Damian Berdun, an Argentinian-Italian wheelchair basketball champion. Berdun, 39, lost his left leg in a traffic accident at ag 13 in his native Buenos Aires, and he has visited many schools over the years to discuss how he has lived with his disability. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)

Para athlete teaches dribbling and diversity to Italian kids

FILE - In this photo provided by Henning Sac, Bonifaz Diaz rides through the streets of Quetzaltenango, Guatemala, Saturday, Jan. 30, 2021. Diaz has pedaled thousands of miles to carry books that people can barter for bags of a cereal mix aimed at providing relief to families suffering chronic malnutrition. For more than a year, The Associated Press has been bringing you “One Good Thing” — stories highlighting good deeds done by individuals to brighten others' days during trying times. (Henning Sac via AP)

After featuring in One Good Thing, volunteers keep on giving

Elizabeth Deterville looks at her new hairstyle courtesy of stylist Roberto Novo in an apartment Wednesday, May 5, 2021 in New York. Novo started offering older clients free haircuts during the coronavirus pandemic. (AP Photo/Emily Leshner)

Celebrity stylist gives free haircuts to isolated clients

Abdul Salam Al Khawien, 37, right, and his wife Kariman, 32, left, pose with their children for a family photo, at their apartment in the northern city of Thessaloniki, Greece, Saturday, May 1, 2021. Sundered in the deadly chaos of an air raid, a Syrian family of seven has been reunited, against the odds, three years later at a refugee shelter in Greece's second city of Thessaloniki. (AP Photo/Giannis Papanikos)

Syrian family reunited, against the odds, in Greece

Trudy Berlin looks at a book during her weekly Zoom session at the Levis Jewish Community Center in Boca Raton, Fla., Tuesday, March 16, 2021. During the coronavirus pandemic, Berlin moved her in-person classes to Zoom. She's grown a steady audience of about 50 women from the U.S. and Canada who have come to view the class as a support group. Berlin says it's "a whole new world out there" and she's having fun. (AP Photo/Cody Jackson)

One Good Thing: 98-year-old hosts virtual women’s group

Mariam Yehia prepares to distribute food during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, in Cairo, Egypt, Sunday, May 2, 2021. Yehia has a Ramadan tradition of buying hot meals and driving around to hand them out to the needy in Cairo so they can break their fast during the Muslim holy month. But she always felt like she wasn't doing enough. This year, an online post inspired the 26-year-old to do more. A friend wrote about a financially struggling chef, and Yehia decided to buy from him Ramadan meals that she then distributed to the poor. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty)

An online post helps both the hungry and a chef in Ramadan

LaGuardia Community College professor Lucia Fuentes teaches her honors biology class via videoconference from Ontario, Canada, on Tuesday, May 4, 2021. Fuentes assigned her students to create multilingual online brochures on the science of the coronavirus and vaccinations to help make the information more accessible. (Lorena Fuentes via AP)

Professor overcomes loss to craft COVID-19 student brochures

Attorney Mark Melton poses for a photo in front of his home in Dallas, Friday, April 2, 2021. Melton has formed a group made up of volunteer attorneys to help people avoid evictions if they can't pay rent due to the pandemic. (AP Photo/LM Otero)

Dallas lawyer takes up mission to help people avoid eviction

In this February 2021 photo provided by Caring Place@ Miami Rescue Mission, Adriana Palma wears a tiara and ballgown on her quinceanera, her 15th birthday celebration. Quinceaneras are revered in Hispanic culture and celebrated with all the gusto of a wedding. But after her father lost his job, Adriana said, “I lost all hope of having one.” (Caring Place@ Miami Rescue Mission via AP)

Miami women surprise homeless teen with magical quinceanera

Dylan Pfeifer sits on the corner of his neighborhood cul da sac in Chandler, Ariz., Saturday, Dec. 5, 2020. Pfeifer received 555 cans and boxes and about $500 in monetary donations. (Erin Pfeifer via AP)

Arizona third-grader holds food drives to help in pandemic

A U.N peacekeeper stands by a U.N vehicle by the abandoned soccer stadium in village of Varisia, inside the U.N controlled buffer zone that divide the Greek, south, and the Turkish, north, Cypriot areas since the 1974 Turkish invasion, Cyprus, on Friday, March 26, 2021. Cyprus' endangered Mouflon sheep is one of many rare plant and animal species that have flourished a inside U.N. buffer zone that cuts across the ethnically cleaved Mediterranean island nation. Devoid of humans since a 1974 war that spawned the country’s division, this no-man's land has become an unofficial wildlife reserve. (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias)

Biologists defy Cyprus’ ethnic divide to protect environment

Norwegian restaurant owner Unn Tove Saetran speaks to migrants from Senegal, including alleged minors, who were sleeping in the streets of Las Palmas and were welcomed to the Holiday Club Puerto Calma hotel in Puerto Rico de Gran Canaria, Spain, March 31, 2021. (AP Photo/Renata Brito)

Canary Islands hotel offers shelter to migrants in need

A Nepalese elderly patient waits for his eye patch to be removed at the Tilganga Eye Center in Kathmandu, Nepal, March 26, 2021. Nepal’s “God of Sight” eye doctor renowned for his innovative and inexpensive cataract surgery for the poor is taking his work beyond the Himalayan mountains to other parts of the world so there is no more unnecessary blindness in the world. Dr. Sanduk Ruit, who has won many awards for his work and performed some 130,000 cataract surgery in the past three decades, is aiming to expand his work beyond the borders of his home country and the region to go globally. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)

Nepal’s God of Sight eye doctor to expand work beyond border

Musicians David Shenton and Erin Shields perform inside their home in the Queens borough of New York on March 30, 2021. The married couple have led virtual concerts from their living room to raise thousands of dollars for the Mosaic West Queens Church food pantry, where they volunteer every weekend. (AP Photo/Emily Leshner)

Musician couple host concerts to fundraise for food pantry

In this Feb. 5, 2021, photo provided by Zack's Cafe, receipts for pre-paid meals hang on the wall inside Zack's Cafe in Miami, Okla. Customers pay for them so that people in need, many of them struggling financially due to the coronavirus pandemic, can get a meal, judgment-free and no questions asked. (Zack's Cafe via AP)

Oklahoma town eases pandemic, one restaurant meal at a time

Migrant workers line up outside the Singapore Flyer Ferris Wheel attraction in Singapore on March 7, 2021. They are among at least 20,000 workers who will be treated to rides by members of the public and businesses. Migrant workers are getting a bird's eye view of Singapore, with the public's help. (AP Photo/Annabelle Liang)

One Good Thing: A Singapore skyline view for migrant workers

Peter Fuchs plays his song "Wear a Mask" during his Facebook Live daily show, "Stump the Maestro", Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2021, in Aventura, Fla. Fuchs, a Holocaust survivor, credits music for saving his life. When the coronavirus pandemic forced most of the world to quarantine, he and his wife Veronica started the show as a way to bring live music to friends and neighbors. Now they entertain music lovers from all over the country. (AP Photo/Marta Lavandier)

Former composer, wife invite viewers to ‘Stump the Maestro’

Chinese artist Yang Qian using dots to recreate an aerial view of Wuhan, China, under lockdown at her studio in Wuhan in central China's Hubei province on Sunday, Jan. 24, 2021. Yang, who worked as a volunteer delivering vital supplies to hospitals and residents during the city's pandemic 76-day lockdown, is using her art work to make sure that history is not forgotten. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

One Good Thing: An artist preserves Wuhan’s COVID memories

Air ambulance flight paramedic, Rita Krenz, poses inside the helicopter that she works in Weyers Cave, Va., Monday, March 15, 2021. Krenz started a fund-raising campaign that brought in more than $18,000 for the charity that has helped RIP Medical Debt forgive the debt of more than 900 people so far. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)

One Good Thing: Flight paramedic treats patient medical debt

Students listen during a class by Kyle Faircloth, Associate Professor of Intercultural Studies, at Palm Beach Atlantic University, Friday, Feb. 26, 2021, in West Palm Beach, Fla. University President Dr. Debra Schwinn said that they had to decide last summer whether to reopen campus or stick solely with online learning. Administrators, faculty and staff had a prayer day to confirm their decision to bring students back. But Schwinn hasn't relied solely on faith. Students and employees must complete daily an electronic questionnaire about whether they have COVID symptoms before being allowed into class or their office. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)

College president Zooms with students isolated due to virus

Soprano singer Arta Jashari performs during a concert in Skopje, Macedonia, Saturday, Dec. 19, 2020. Jashari, a well-known and much-loved soprano in Kosovo, could hardly forget her neighbors’ assistance while in quarantine helping her father cope with the virus. That prompted her do the same thing to others, turning herself regularly to the hospital to help staff and patients’ families to cope with the virus pandemic. (AP Photo/Arben Lllapastica)

One Good Thing: In Kosovo, virus lets humanity shine through

Volunteer Ian Cash peels a sweet pototao, as members the Preston Windrush Covid Response team prepare West Indian meals, at the Xaverian Sanctuary, in Preston, England, Friday Feb. 19, 2021. Once a week, chief coordinator Glenda Andrew and her team distribute meals to people in Preston and surrounding communities in northwestern England that have recorded some of the U.K.’s highest coronavirus infection rates. The meal program grew out of Andrew’s work with Preston Windrush Generation & Descendants, a group organized to fight for the rights of early immigrants from the Caribbean and other former British colonies who found themselves threatened with deportation in recent years. (AP Photo/Jon Super)

One Good Thing: A taste of the islands makes lockdown easier

In this July 2019 photo, Tara Krebbs hugs her father, Charles Henry Krebbs, on his 74th birthday in Phoenix. He died from COVID-19 in August 2020. (Tara Krebbs via AP)

Floral hearts comfort grieving families of pandemic dead

Sofia Moncayo, who leads a food distribution program through Mosaic West Queens Church in the Sunnyside neighborhood of the Queens borough of New York speaks with a donation recipient, on Monday, Feb. 22, 2021. Moncayo and dozens of volunteers distribute more than 1,000 boxes of food to families twice a week. (AP Photo/Emily Leshner)

New York woman loses job, leads pantry feeding thousands

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