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Each saturday we focus on stories that remind us of the good stuff happening like how a twenty year old presschool teacher didn't even think twice about saving her former students life
I think everybody deserves this second chance
So i'm hofufully ggonna be giving him his second chance plus people want to eat chocolate forever
What if i told you
There's a chocolate recipe out there that's good for you and better for the planet from cnn
I'm christaboo
And this is five good things
I'm karen n zaak
And this is what's your name asza
And in five years old ezuz tozac says
He wants to be a ninja turtle
When he grows up
And if that doesn't work out the at rex will do he is an absolute character
He loves to make you laugh
He joined the large tozzac family of older new york in twenty nineteen from foster care
And he adopted him in twenty twenty two
Kcarn says
Some days you would never know that as rz sick at all
He's the liver damage from the time we've known him in the talk of a transplant was kind of in the back of our minds rate from the beginning doctors told the family about a year ago
That as rz liver function was declining
And in february he was put on the transplant list for a new liver
Because in fenot working little did they know that a familiar face was working behind the scenes to help the little boy
Because as chriis ses had to share my leather
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Kris official was as as prepresschool teacher
Not too long ago
Unbeknowced to the family at the time
Curra secretly applied to be a living donor
Honestly i didn't even have a second thought about it
I wish just ready to help him
Two weeks ago
Doctors told her
She was a perfect match to donate part of her liver to errap she's surprised the family of their house with the good news
Yeah
She's a perfect match
Yeah
I went to his house with a stufty animal balloons and a sign that i am made
It's curiously has a liver for you
I've going to share my liver with you bloy it
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Would you like to share my liver
And then i had a little box where you could check yes or now
What do you think
Would you like that think are you really
Karen said
She was in shock and overwhelmed with the motion and gratitude
Then it just can't hit me in the tears
And like this is really happening
They're still working out logistics
But kris a says
She wants to start the jucess the last week of july
Which is also the week of her twenty first birthday
It's a sacrifice
Chris is willing to make she hopes the'll inspire others to consider it too
I think everybody deserves a can chance
I'm hopefully gonna be giving him his second chance
He're that
That's the sound of our oceans getting cleaner
Today is world ocean day
It's a day
That's all about celebrating and protecting our oceans
One on profit is doing that by taking out the trash
The ocean cleanup was founded in twenty thirteen
By dutchand venter boy in slaught
When he was just eighteen years old
His mission is to rid the world's oceans of plastics
That mazing like long daunting goal
But slap in his team are moving some serious trash
They've developed a cleanup system
That involves a long floating barrier told between two slow moving vessels
As they move plastic has collected in a huge saack
That holds the trash in place
A lot of their work has spocused on the great pacific garbage patch
The largest accumulation of plastic trash in the open ocean
It's located between hawaii and california
And it's estimated to be double the size of texas
The ocean clean up recently celebrated a major miles down there
They've extracted plastic from that area one hundred times since more than guffous eight hundred seventy thousand pounds of trash since august of twenty
Twenty one
And they planned to scale up their operation and hopes of cleaning up the entire garbage patch
We give the parents a chance to celebrate their child
We go over the top
We have to marry davis who goes by many throws epic birthday parties each month for kids experiencing homelessness in losanangelis county and houston
Which party has hospecial momoment
Where parone is holding hands in a circle
You are is your birthday is very important ant day
Your birperday the nonprofit name is inspired by a gift
She got from her teacher on her fifth birthday
That she still has to this day
It was a special plug with her nickname on it
And what it means worthy love
And where that really made be ve en special and lolove my birbirthday
So al i created worthy of love
I wanted kids to get that kind of memory
Or are the loloves been throwing these birthday parties every month for seven years now with the help of volunteers donations and local shelters
Their maighbthday party in mos angeles was last week
And they went all out as usual
They have these paint balloons
Photo booth dj entertainment t shirts
Everyone get a shirt
And when we get to close at the homeless and something brand knew which they usually don't get
Mandy says
The smiles and the valley laughs from the kids make these parties extra memorable
I know that they haven't laugh like that in a while you can just tell
And they can be free
You know for a night of just so much fun and joy and love and joreally really special
If you want to to find the next worthy of love party text the word good to seventy seventy seventy to dony blockbussters
Kind of making a comeback communities across north america are finding ways to swap dv ds in va just tapes just like the old days
Thanks to the free blockbuster project
Of course
Ryal familiar with little free libraries
Where you can take a book or leave a book
Where not not little free blokbuster
Where where you can to movivior return a movie
Tv and film produced brbrian more son and started the initiative twenty twenty nineteen
He transformed an old abandoned newspaper box in os andales spray painted bluing yellow and put movies in there for people to take and leave
As they wish for free
So they don't go a waste
Bryan told me
The company that owns blokbusster's brand isn't totally on board with us
And they didn't respond when we ask them about it
But bryan says
He might change the logo
Soon his free block buster idea has really caught on
And now brian says
Over two hundred neighborhoods all over the world have adopted this idea
The swiss do not mess around
When it comes to their chocolate
They found a way to replace the sugar in the treat
And still make a tastgood
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Food scientists can mishra loves chocolate
Who doesn't i am a binch chocolate eter
I must admit
And he's based in switzzerland where they take chocolate very seriously
He had a lot of motivation to try to make a new recipeer chocolate
That's healthier and more sustainable
This new recipe would be entirely made from the plant
He just parts of it like how it's made now now
And wouldn't use any refined sugar
Kim says
The chocolate tastes srich in chocolate
It's more from my dark chocolate lovers out there
And it's more nutriicious than traditional chocolate with extraa diatary fiber and anti accidents
We won't see this new chocolate on grocery stoore shelves anytime soon
But a patattern the the cipe has been filed
And kim says
He's already hearing from chocolate makers all over the world
Who are intrigued by the research people
I want to eat chocolate forever
And i think this is a measure
How to ensure that our chocolate is also to be consumed in the future
In this sustainable manner alright
That's all for now during us tomorrow for the next edition of one thing with the twenty twenty four election heating up ccn sadadaas gold joins host david rhyme to teachers had an navigate disinformation and ai generated content five good things as a production of cnn audio
This episode was produced by emily y williams
Alloor teteand me me rristbo are senior producers
Fast jimo
Grereg
Peppers is our supervising producer
Matt dempsy is our production manager
Danauua is our technical director
And steve lektii is the executive producer of c nn audio
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