It’s easy to take for granted what we consider to be routine activities such as swimming or walking, especially if you’re a world class athlete with six Olympic Gold medals under your belt. Amy Van Dyken-Rouen never imagined that taking a walk would become such a struggle. Amy was involved in an accident in June […]

Mothers play a significant role every day in the privacy of their homes. They nurture future leaders with their care on a daily basis. Some Chicago moms are taking their roles to a whole new level by taking it to the streets. A group of Chicago moms, volunteers of a group known as Mothers Against […]

Twenty-three years ago, a doctor rubbed dirt in his hair and mud on his clothes. He hit the streets of Pittsburgh. His only mission was to find people who are experiencing homelessness and provide them with medical care and other services they so badly needed. “I was surprised at the state of the homeless in […]

Not many people would give up a lucrative career at a top financial firm to collect leftover food and redistribute it. But Robert Lee is not like many people. He gave up a finance job at JP Morgan to follow his passion of feeding the hungry. Robert Lee, the son of Korean immigrants, knows better […]

Connor recently turned 21.  For his birthday, he chose to ride his bike along with 2,000 other bicyclists in the Courage Classic, which takes place in the mountains of Colorado, where riders travel up to 150 miles to raise money for Children’s Hospital Colorado. Connor, who raised $2,290 for the Sie Center for Down Syndrome where […]

You don’t have to cross the border to the third world to find children starving. This is something that Charolette Tidwell learned more than 15 years ago. The former nurse saw signs of hunger and starvation in her own hometown. “I saw the elderly purchasing cat food because they couldn’t afford a tin of tuna,” […]