OrphanCrushingMachine

r/OrphanCrushingMachine • u/Storm-South • Aug 09 '24

Trouble to go to elementary school

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659 Upvotes

14 comments

r/OrphanCrushingMachine • u/TheronEpic • Oct 09 '20

In case anyone was confused and/or concerned as to why this sub is named OrphanCrushingMachine

48.7k Upvotes

365 comments

r/OrphanCrushingMachine • u/basal_gangly • 5h ago

An arena in South Dakota holds a “Dash for Cash” where teachers get on their knees and fight for one dollar bills that they can use for classroom supplies while spectators watch and cheer

reddit.com

319 Upvotes

13 comments

r/OrphanCrushingMachine • u/goodgoodgoodnews • 19h ago

This 11-year old boy spent his entire summer mowing lawns to pay for his father's headstone

443 Upvotes

Hate this kind of "feel good" story

35 comments

r/OrphanCrushingMachine • u/WarthogSeveral7662 • 17h ago

Dystopian or "inspiring"?

288 Upvotes

Posted by Kroger who said "Walmart gave a bouquet to an 84year old clerk? WE CAN TOP THAT"

40 comments

r/OrphanCrushingMachine • u/chilli_butcher • 21h ago

A brave nurse crossing the raging river to vaccinate a newborn!

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192 Upvotes

33 comments

r/OrphanCrushingMachine • u/asteconn • 1d ago

Six years after her baby underwent nine surgeries, an Arizona mother received a surprise letter confirming her $15,000 medical debt had been forgiven. Kentucky is also launching a $2.5 million programme to cancel medical debt for 130,000 people.

old.reddit.com

302 Upvotes

17 comments

r/OrphanCrushingMachine • u/CurvyChristina • 1d ago

University of Texas at Austin student Joey Romano, broke his wrist during a skateboarding accident in 2018. He ordered an Uber because he couldn't afford an ambulance.
The driver, Beni Lukumu, refused payment & stayed with him for 6 hours, missing work, to make sure he was okay.

21 comments

r/OrphanCrushingMachine • u/anirudhsky • 2d ago

The American dream...

1.9k Upvotes

61 comments

r/OrphanCrushingMachine • u/ElvisIsNotDjed • 2d ago

A former student found his substitute teacher living in a car and raised money to help him

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145 Upvotes

6 comments

r/OrphanCrushingMachine • u/Gottyman • 2d ago

So wholesome...

240 Upvotes

26 comments

r/OrphanCrushingMachine • u/Upstairs_Drive_5602 • 4d ago

“I choose to live my life with hope”: Father, 39, with stage-four brain cancer sells family home and crowdfunds for treatment unavailable on the NHS, hoping to live long enough for his three-year-old son to remember him.

bbc.co.uk

1.2k Upvotes

67 comments

r/OrphanCrushingMachine • u/ElvisIsNotDjed • 4d ago

A charity honoring Philando Castile raised money to clear hundreds of students’ school-lunch debts

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186 Upvotes

3 comments

r/OrphanCrushingMachine • u/mr_bravom • 5d ago

Yep, definitely something to smile about

1.4k Upvotes

A young man in a conflict where he has to use himself as a human shield so his comrade doesn't die. How on earth can people say this is something to smile about. War is hell, nothing to smile at

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r/OrphanCrushingMachine • u/kevlowe • 8d ago

Ms. Rachel paid the full $5,000 target for a Filipino baby's medical fundraiser after his mother asked her to simply share it. The family had appealed for help after the baby was diagnosed with omphalocele.

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2.7k Upvotes

No family should have to resort to fundraising to pay for medical care

31 comments

r/OrphanCrushingMachine • u/Regumate • 9d ago

Filipina OnlyFans Star Uses Profits To Build School She Once Dreamed of Teaching in, But Critics Call It 'Ethical Gooning'

fashiontimes.co.uk

1.4k Upvotes

115 comments

r/OrphanCrushingMachine • u/ElvisIsNotDjed • 9d ago

Prison inmates dip into their personal accounts to help pay children’s school-meal debt

upworthy.com

242 Upvotes

3 comments

r/OrphanCrushingMachine • u/RequestingYouPlease • 13d ago

How heartwarming that a toddler’s $1million treatment might finally happen because a billionaire’s son happened to drive past the right banner.

345 Upvotes

5 comments

r/OrphanCrushingMachine • u/ElvisIsNotDjed • 14d ago

She aged out of foster care without a permanent family. Her former caseworker adopted her at 19

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1.3k Upvotes

39 comments

r/OrphanCrushingMachine • u/CreepingThyme071 • 14d ago

Incarcerated children in the state of California are the first in America to be given “the right to hug"

1.3k Upvotes

Is my heart warmed? Or is it just the flames of hell lapping at my door?

https://ktla.com/news/california/newly-passed-law-gives-incarcerated-california-kids-the-right-to-hug-their-loved-ones/

114 comments

r/OrphanCrushingMachine • u/Upstairs_Drive_5602 • 14d ago

A robot has been given the job of keeping a 74-year-old woman company at home. It reminds her to take her medication, asks how she is, and offers to chat.

bbc.co.uk

520 Upvotes

37 comments

r/OrphanCrushingMachine • u/rgdthrowaway111 • 15d ago

French farmers turn to tropical crops amid rising temperatures • FRANCE 24 English

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43 Upvotes

4 comments

r/OrphanCrushingMachine • u/bbyxmadi • 17d ago

they shouldn’t have to do this in the first place 💔

1.6k Upvotes

24 comments

r/OrphanCrushingMachine • u/neuroticsmurf • 17d ago

Just like anything else in this country, you're only worthy of being honored if you can pay for it.

1.2k Upvotes

22 comments

r/OrphanCrushingMachine • u/subdep • 19d ago

Old man working 14 hours a day to pay for wife’s medical treatments

msn.com

142 Upvotes

2 comments