An Artisan’s Skill Should Be Their Strength: The Story of Uthhan
Uthhan – Empowering Artisans connects more than 80,000 artisans across India directly with customers, so they can earn fair value for their skills.
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A Heart Carved from Our Story: A Tribute to the Medical Team Who Saved Us
A brother and a sister, two open-heart surgeries, and a heart carved from reclaimed maple to say thank you.
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From My Own Battle with Depression to Building a Community That Gives Others Hope
Jackie Tumusime Butera turned her own experience of depression into a grassroots mental health organization in Uganda.
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Stories from the COVID-19 Years
COVID-19 Collection The Day the World Shut Down First-person stories from the pandemic years—preserving not only what happened, but what it felt like to live through a defining global moment. March 2020 changed the world almost overnight. Streets emptied. Borders closed. Schools, workplaces, businesses, and family routines were disrupted by uncertainty unlike anything most people…
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Amanda’s Lockdown Story
Amanda describes the closeness her family found during lockdown alongside the strain of shielding, disrupted medical care, home-schooling, and the constant work of protecting a medically vulnerable family member. Editorial Status: Source Unverified This account is published from the original archived submission. The source contains conflicting references to family relationships and pronouns. Those inconsistencies have…
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Michelle’s Lockdown Story
Michelle, a college student in Canada, describes losing her job during the pandemic, returning home to her parents, reconnecting with her Punjabi and Indian heritage, and discovering new interests during lockdown. Editorial Status: Partially Verified Archive This account is published from the original archived post attributed to Michelle. Passages that substantially overlapped with other posts…
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Anna’s Lockdown Story
Anna describes how lockdown pushed her family into financial crisis, contributed to her father’s struggle with anxiety and depression, and separated her from her mother after a COVID-19 diagnosis. Editorial Status: Partially Verified Archive The opening portion of this archived post appears distinct to Anna’s account. Later passages substantially overlap with other posts in the…
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Personal Lockdown Stories Of The Hurdles I Faced In Lockdown
Diagnosed with autoimmune hepatitis shortly before COVID-19 reached the United States, Sophia entered the pandemic already isolated and immunosuppressed. Her account explores illness, job loss, grief, mental health, and the courage to keep choosing connection. This is Sophia Morris. I would like to share something from this very difficult time. We all know that there…
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The Tale Of My Lockdown Story
Sapna, an English honors student living away from her hometown, describes the sudden return home during lockdown and the mix of silence, fear, family time, boredom, study, and self-discovery that followed. Editorial Status: Source Partially Unverified This account is published from the original archived post attributed to Sapna. Several passages also appear in other posts…
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Grace’s Lockdown Story
When Zimbabwe entered lockdown in March 2020, Grace’s family lost the ability to earn a living almost overnight. Her firsthand account reveals how COVID-19 restrictions pushed one family from hardship into desperation—and the impossible choices that followed. It was the 30th of March 2020. The president of Zimbabwe had just announced that, for the next…
