Celebrity acts of kindness. Do good! Stories of people who have done good deeds

Every person should do good deeds, no matter how global they are. Someone will say that these stars did not do anything special and in their situation everyone would have done the same, but not everyone can boast of even such a manifestation of kindness and compassion for their neighbor, because for the most part people think only about themselves.

Keanu Reeves

IN recent years What came to light was that Reeves doesn't care much about money. In fact, he went so far as to give $80 million of his Matrix royalties to the special effects team and costume designers who worked on the trilogy. He explained his action by saying that he believes that the success of the film series is due to these people, and not to him.

Stephen Fry

Stephen Fry has touched not just one life, but countless others with his openness about his mental health struggles. Although many see such problems as a stigma that harms their careers, Fry speaks openly about his problems and has become president of mental health charity Reason, which raises public awareness of mental illness and is a voice for those suffering from it.

Russell Brand

Brand talked about how he knows what it's like to be at the bottom of his life as a former alcoholic and heroin addict, which is why he spends time with homeless people in his area. He has been photographed and spotted countless times with homeless people - taking them to breakfast and helping them in every possible way.

Will.i.am

Will.i.am recently donated his entire salary from The Voice (around $750,000) to The Prince's Foundation, a charity dedicated to providing STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths) education to disadvantaged children in the UK. He hopes for the same success that this program has had in his hometown, Los Angeles County, which is now open modern center STEM.

Woody Harrelson

While attending a fabulous party in New York, Woody was approached by a homeless woman looking for alms. Instead of turning her down, Woody decided to give the woman $600. According to the Daily News, when the woman recognized the actor, she said, “Thanks Woody! White people can still jump!”

John Cena

This athlete fulfilled the most wishes for charitable foundation“Make your dream come true” - he has 400 wishes (100 of which were fulfilled from June 2013 to February 2014).

Ryan Gosling

A British journalist was rescued by an actor when she almost walked onto the road in front of a taxi in New York. She tweeted about the incident, saying she was looking the other way as a lifelong Londoner when Gosling grabbed her arm and pulled her back onto the pavement.

Mila Kunis

When a man who worked in her house collapsed on the floor from an attack, Mila came to his aid. After she supported him until the ambulance arrived, Mila even offered to go with him to the hospital to make sure he was safe.

Lady Gaga

Lady Gaga is known for the fact that she uses her popularity to promote self-belief, despite how different we are from others. After she heard that one of her fans committed suicide because he was taunted about his sexuality, she dedicated her concert to him and had his photo on the screens everywhere - it was an act of unity with fan and other people from all over the world suffering in similar situations.

T.I.

This rapper gave up everything to convince a man not to commit suicide. The police tried to reason with the man to come down from the parapet. He considered it necessary to help, telling the man that everything would be fine and that not everything in the world was as bad as it seemed.

Angelina Jolie

Jolie remains a great philanthropist even after years of success and incredible popularity. She even decided to make In the Land of Blood and Honey as her directorial debut, a film telling the story of women who were subjected to mass rape during the Bosnian war. This choice was clearly not made with the aim of becoming famous, since it was filmed and written in Bosnian.

Zach Galifinakis

Zach saved a homeless woman. Mimi, a woman Zach knew from the local laundromat long before he became famous, found herself on the street. As soon as Zach found out about this, he offered to pay the apartment rent for her. He even took her with him to the premiere of the film Bachelor Party: Part III.

Patrick Dempsey

According to TMZ, the teenager lost control of his Mustang, and after the car flipped several times, it finally stopped in front of the actor's house. Dempsey ran outside to help the young driver and used a crowbar to free the teenager from the car, after which he called emergency services.

Johnny Depp

After 9-year-old Beatrice asked Depp to help her rebel against teachers, the actor came to a London school for precisely this purpose.

Tyler Perry

After hearing that a woman suffering from cerebral palsy had her customized 2000 Chrysler Town & Country stolen from her home in Georgia, director Perry offered to give her another van.

Gary Sinese

Since playing the role of Lieutenant Dan in Forrest Gump, Sinise has been committed to helping disabled veterans and their families. He recently took 50 war-wounded soldiers on an all-expenses-paid trip to Disneyland in California.

Tom Cruise

One day, while he was relaxing on his yacht, Cruise saw a sinking, burning sailboat. Instead of waiting for someone to save them, Tom himself swam to the sailboat and helped the victims escape.

GR continues a series of articles in support of the largest charity event in Russia called “Soulful Bazar”.

“Soulful Bazar” is a project aimed at popularizing charity among city residents, which talks about the activities of various non-profit organizations, shows options for participating in charity and offers each of us to choose a convenient and pleasant way to help.

Today we're highlighting powerful and touching acts of kindness performed by famous people around the world.

Robert Downey Jr. gave a disabled child a prosthetic arm in the shape of Iron Man

Robert Downey Jr. supported a University of Florida student's project called Limbitless Solutions, which creates low-cost bionic prosthetics for young children. This is not the first time that the film actor has done good deeds: in 2014, he specially dressed up in his famous Iron Man suit to bring joy to little boy.

Johnny Depp came as his favorite hero to the hospital to visit sick children

While filming the next installment of Pirates of the Caribbean, the actor took time out from filming to visit sick children in a hospital in Brisbane, Australia. The actor's unexpected visit caused a real pleasant shock among the young patients at the hospital, which treats newborns and children under the age of 16. According to eyewitnesses, the 52-year-old actor handed out engraved coins to children and tried to devote at least a little of his time to each child.

This is not the first time Johnny Depp comes to the hospital as the pirate Jack Sparrow. According to him, he never warns anyone about his arrival in order to give the children a surprise.

Will.i.am donated $750,000 children from disadvantaged families

The popular singer donated his entire fee for participating in the show “The Voice” to the Prince’s Foundation, a charity dedicated to providing education to children from low-income families in the UK.

Chulpan Khamatova helpschildren with oncological and hematological diseases

In 2006, the actress became a co-founder of the “ Give life." Thanks to her foundation, withToday in Russia they have learned to help 85-90% of children with this terrible diagnosis. IN 2014 magazine " Ogonyok" placed Chulpan in 14th place in the ranking« 100 most influential women Russia."

The Konstantin Khabensky Charitable Foundation helps children with complex illnesses

During the first five-year plan, the foundation managed to save 130 children's lives. IN interview with the publication« Moscow News” he told why he decided to do this: “I just remember those eyes. Not the eyes of a child, because he is not afraid of death yet - he has not acquired anything yet, to be afraid of losing it. I remember my mother's eyes, especially when there has been a complete transition from negative to positive. At such moments, something settles in you and your colleagues. Something so important appears, that stays with you forever."

Gosha Kutsenko Foundationhelps children diagnosed with cerebral palsy

« Step Together" was founded in 2011, since then the fundorganizes charity concerts and auctions twice a year, where he invites friends for support. Fundprovides legal assistance, advises families, where children with the diagnosis grow up, purchases medical equipment and medicines.

Natalia Vodianova and her"Naked Hearts"

The most long-awaited gift that people expect from celebrities is a personal meeting. And the stars are happy to do this. There have always been many such famous people both in our country and abroad. You can recall the famous doctor Nikolai Ivanovich Pirogov, who was known for his charitable activities.

Wheelchair basketball with Gerard Pique

Famous Defender football club Barcelona Gerard Pique sat down in wheelchair specifically to be on an equal footing with people in wheelchairs diagnosed with paralysis and to play basketball with them. Basketball first appeared in the United States around the 40s and has recently been included in the list of programs of the Paralympic Games.

This event took place in Spain at the Guttman Institute - a specialized medical center, which provides care to people with brain or spinal injuries. The event was organized by the Laures Appeal Foundation, which - “ Sport for good", and their main goal is to unite together social work and physical activity. About 15 people took part in the fund's action famous people athletes from various sports disciplines. Among them is Gerard Pique.

The Zapashny brothers visited the Research Institute of Pediatric Surgery with a tiger

Institute of Pediatric Traumatology and Surgery ( research institute) Zapashny brothers visited with his ward tigress Marfa. One of the sick children dreamed about this Ivan Voronin, who came under fire in the city of Shakhtersk. The boy has no legs, one arm and almost complete loss of vision. Vanya’s father and younger brother were killed under fire, and Vanya himself was evacuated to Russia.

Askold and Edgar, having laid Marfa in the hall of the institute, brought Vanya to her. The boy stroked the animal and said that he was not afraid at all.

After the visit Edgar shared his thoughts: “The words “courage” and “children” should not be interconnected, but what we saw today cannot be called differently: when a nine-year-old child courageously fights for life and at the same time finds the strength to rejoice. Holding Vanya in my arms, tears welled up in my eyes, to hide it.”

Before leaving, the Zapashny brothers gave the child a small toy tiger cub in memory of their meeting.

Maria Sharapova gave a master class for Sunny Logan

Famous tennis player, founder of a charitable foundation providing support to victims of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant - Maria Sharapova gave a lesson to Sunny Logan, a girl who was able to overcome a disease such as a rare form of lymphoma. Sunny had long dreamed of meeting a famous athlete. Even before her illness, the girl was fond of tennis, which, according to her, helped her overcome this serious illness.

After meeting with Sunny Logan, Maria Sharapova shared her impressions: “The girl plays tennis quite well and can become a very good athlete.”

Robert Downey Jr. gave seven-year-old Alex an “iron hand”

Robert Downey-Jr. played in the film " iron man» gave Alex Pring prosthesis similar to your own hand famous hero. The boy was missing one arm from birth. The prosthesis was manufactured by Limbitless Solutions, the founder of which is Alberto Manero.

The goal of his project is to produce inexpensive bionic prostheses for children from low-income families. The price of one prosthesis is about $350, but a prosthesis that is almost indistinguishable from a real arm or leg is quite affordable.

Alex Pringi happily demonstrated the capabilities of the prosthesis donated by his favorite actor.

Igor Akinfeev invited a boy from a hospice to the CSKA sports base

Famous goalkeeper of the CSKA football team Igor Akinfeev organized a meeting with a little fan Sergei Zenkin at the CSKA sports base. Sergei is being treated at the First Hospice with a diagnosis of a brain tumor, which, unfortunately, is inoperable.

At the CSKA base, Sergei met not only with his favorite goalkeeper, but also with his coach, Leonid Slutsky. I also took photos with players Zoran Tosic, Vasily Berezutskiy and Sergei Ignashevich.

Sergei discussed football news with his idol, talked about past matches and upcoming plans, and was also able to attend the team’s training session. In addition, the boy told Igor how he learned about his diagnosis and how he was being treated. During the story, the boy almost burst into tears.

After the meeting, Sergei Zenkin’s mother said: “Meetings like this are very supportive. And the rest will follow.”

Actors from the TV series “Voronins” helped Liza get from the hospice to the film pavilion

Ward from the children's hospice "House with a Lighthouse" 8 year old Lisa with the help of the Voronins, I visited film set. The girl has complete loss of vision due to an incurable form of cancer, but this does not stop her from listening to the series “Voronin” 10 episodes a day.

On the set, Lisa tried herself as a cameraman, giving the command “Cut!” and “Motor!”, read the next episode and held the microphone. The child felt at home in the film pavilion; the girl even gave some non-childish advice to the director of the series.

Yulia Savicheva sang especially for Sonya at the hospice

14-year-old Sonya, a hospice patient, told the staff of the Vera charity foundation that she dreams of meeting Yulia Savicheva. And the very next day the girl met the singer.

Sonya has an inoperable brain tumor and during the meeting she was in in serious condition, but despite this, Sonya and Yulia spent almost 2 hours together. They talked and sang songs. Savicheva brought her autographed CDs and cakes for her.

Before leaving, Julia invited Sonya to her concert and promised to find her eyes in the hall.

The deceased Lokomotiv hockey player secretly helped sick children

And it’s impossible not to remember Ivana Tkachenko.

Ivan Tkachenko, the leader of the Yaroslavl Lokomotiv, secretly helped children with cancer until his death.

16 year old Diana Ibragimova delivered from Voronezh terrible diagnosis- acute lymphoblastic leukosis. The girl could only be saved by an operation, which costs a lot of money. And only after the death of Ivan Tkachenko, Diana’s mother found out who saved her daughter from death.

Ivan Tkachenko transferred 500,000 rubles twice for the treatment of Diana Ibragimova.

Sometimes it seems to us that the world is closed in its cruelty and pursuit of money, but this is not so! Evidence of this is the good deeds that people do famous people. And how many more things ordinary people do, we just don’t know about it...

True stories from the lives of people with different destinies, lives and worldviews, but united by one big heart.

1. Dima is a teenager, no different from other guys like him. Nothing but kindness and sensitivity to absolutely to strangers. One day he needed to visit the military registration and enlistment office. He didn’t have money for the bus, so he had to walk. It was in February. Having walked quite a bit from the house, from a distance he saw a woman lying in the snow. At first Dima thought that she was drunk, but when he approached her, he saw an elderly woman. Although there were many passers-by on the street, no one except Dima paid attention to her. The teenager came up and slowly picked her up. She said she was walking to church when she slipped and fell. Dima brought the woman home, although he had to deviate from the given route by two stops. As a sign of gratitude, she tried to give the guy money for travel. But Dima refused - that’s not why he helped her.

2. Love for animals can be limitless. Steve Craig, an accountant from Denver, knows this firsthand. A month after the death of his beloved dog, he began to feel depressed. Then Steve decided to take old, sick dogs from the shelter, who are unlikely to attract anyone's attention and whose fate, alas, is predictable. First, he adopted a twelve-year-old Chihuahua with a heart murmur and painful joints. Now he has 10 elderly dogs living at home. “I’m very happy that I was able to make these animals happy,” says Steve.

3. It’s no secret what exotic food they eat in South Korea. At their meat market you can find any animal, including dogs. Two-year-old dog Chi-Chi, hanging upside down in a dark room, was constantly beaten to make her meat more tender. However, for unknown reasons, it did not become another delicacy on someone’s table. She was simply left to die in a garbage bag. Fortunately, Chi-Chi was saved, but all of her legs had to be amputated. And two months later veterinary clinic the dog found a family in Phoenix, Arizona.

4. Dreams tend to come true. It also came true for twelve-year-old Emily Tammen, who suffers from autism, attention deficit disorder and Ehlers-Danlos syndrome. The girl's joints suffer due to this disease. Emily came to the concert of her favorite singer Adele with a poster “My dream is to sing with Adele.” The singer noticed this ad and invited the girl to the stage, offering to perform the hit “Someone Like You.”

5. You don't need to be a superhero to save lives. At one of the baseball games, player Andrew McCutcheon from the Pirates team slipped his bat. It flew straight into the boy's forehead. An unknown “superhero” wearing glasses deflected the blow of the bat by putting up his hand. Having flown around the boy's head, the bat still hit him on the back of the head. But this was not at all the blow that the unfortunate guy could have received.

6. Friendship between a penguin and a human is possible. In 2001, a pensioner saved a tiny penguin. He lay dying on the rocks, covered in oil. The man picked up the poor animal, cleaned its feathers of oil and fed it fish every day until the penguin gained strength. This was the beginning of their long and strong friendship.

7. There are firefighters among dogs. Burnt puppy Jake, rescued from a fire by Bill Linder, became a firefighter. Baby Jake was just a few weeks old when he found himself in a burning barn. He received burns on 75% of his body, which forced his owners to abandon him. Then Bill's family decided to take him for themselves. Now Jake teaches lessons with his owner fire safety in schools.

8. “You can’t see the most important things with your eyes,” said Exupery. Mr. Kuroki, a Japanese dairy farmer, spent two years trying to lift his blind wife out of depression. Having planted a giant flower bed, he pulled her outside, thereby making her smile.

9. Sometimes even a fire can end a wedding. A firefighter rescued a girl from a burning house. Unfortunately, he suffered a leg injury; doctors said that the man would no longer be able to walk normally. But 28 years later, he walked their daughter down the aisle.

10. “Five years ago I adopted a dog from a shelter that was about to be euthanized. Now this dog saves my life every day. I suffer from a neurological condition that causes seizures. My dog ​​knows in advance about the next attack and warns me about it.”

Maria Ryzhova
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“Rus' is not without good people!” Russian people can easily be considered one of the most responsive peoples in the world. On the pages of history you can find many characters who throughout their lives tried to make the world a little better. Among them are doctors, military men, nobles, and even royalty.

Opening universities, specialized printing houses and schools, helping orphans, the hungry and the homeless is far from full list the good deeds of these people, which will be discussed in our material.

During his lifetime, Fyodor Rtishchev, a close friend and adviser to Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich, received the nickname “gracious husband.” Klyuchevsky wrote that Rtishchev fulfilled only part of the commandment of Christ - he loved his neighbor, but not himself.

He was one of that rare breed of people who put the interests of others above their own “wants.” It was on the initiative of " bright man“The first shelters for beggars appeared not only in Moscow, but also beyond its borders. It was common for Rtishchev to pick up a drunk on the street and take him to a temporary shelter he organized - an analogue of a modern sobering-up station.

How many were saved from death and did not freeze to death on the street, one can only guess. In 1671, Fyodor Mikhailovich sent grain convoys to starving Vologda, and then money raised from the sale of personal property. And when I learned about the need of the Arzamas residents for additional lands, he simply donated his own.

During the Russian-Polish War, he carried out not only his compatriots, but also Poles from the battlefield. He hired doctors, rented houses, bought food and clothing for the wounded and prisoners, again using his own funds. After Rtishchev’s death, his “Life” appeared - a unique case of demonstrating the holiness of a layman, and not a monk.

The second wife of Paul I, Maria Fedorovna, was famous for her excellent health and tirelessness. Starting the morning with cold douches, prayer and strong coffee, the Empress devoted the rest of the day to taking care of her countless pupils.

She knew how to convince moneybags to donate money for construction educational institutions for noble maidens in Moscow and St. Petersburg, Simbirsk and Kharkov.

With her direct participation, the largest charitable organization was created - the Imperial Humane Society, which existed until the beginning of the 20th century. Having 9 children of her own, she especially cared for abandoned babies: the sick were cared for in orphanages, the strong and healthy were cared for in trustworthy peasant families. This approach has significantly reduced child mortality.

With all the scale of her activities, Maria Feodorovna also paid attention to the little things that were not necessary for life. So, in Obukhovskaya psychiatric hospital In St. Petersburg, each patient received his own kindergarten. Her will contains the following lines: “Give life to Your Spirit through meekness, love and mercy. Be helpers and benefactors to the suffering and the poor.”

A descendant of the Rurikovichs, Prince Vladimir Odoevsky, was convinced that the thought he sowed would certainly “come up tomorrow” or “in a thousand years.” A close friend of Griboyedov and Pushkin, the writer and philosopher Odoevsky was an active supporter of the abolition of serfdom, worked to the detriment of his own interests for the Decembrists and their families, and tirelessly intervened in the fate of the most disadvantaged.

He was ready to rush to the aid of anyone who turned to him and saw in everyone a “living string” that could be made to sound for the benefit of the cause. The St. Petersburg Society for Visiting the Poor, which he organized, helped 15 thousand needy families. There was a women's workshop, a children's shelter with a school, a hospital, hostels for the elderly and families, and a social store.

Despite his origin and connections, Odoevsky did not seek to occupy an important post, believing that in a “minor position” he could bring “real benefit.” The “Strange Scientist” tried to help young inventors realize their ideas. The main character traits of the prince, according to contemporaries, were humanity and virtue.

An innate sense of justice distinguished the grandson of Paul I from most of his colleagues. He not only served in the Preobrazhensky Regiment during the reign of Nicholas I, but also equipped the first school in the history of the country at his place of service, in which soldiers’ children were educated.

Later, this successful experience was applied to other regiments. In 1834, the prince witnessed the public punishment of a woman who was driven through a line of soldiers, after which he petitioned for dismissal, saying that he would never be able to carry out such orders. Pyotr Georgievich devoted the rest of his life to charity. He was a trustee and honorary member of many institutions and societies, including the Kyiv Home for the Poor.

Retired second lieutenant Sergei Skirmunt is almost unknown to the general public. He did not hold high positions and failed to become famous for his good deeds, but he was able to build socialism on a single estate.

At the age of 30, when Sergei Apollonovich was painfully thinking about future fate, he received 2.5 million rubles from a deceased distant relative. The inheritance was not spent on carousing or lost at cards. One part of it became the basis for donations to the Society for the Promotion of Public Access folk entertainment, the founder of which was Skirmunt himself. With the rest of the money, the millionaire built a hospital and a school on the estate, and all his peasants were able to move to new huts.

The whole life of this amazing woman was devoted to educational and pedagogical work. She was an active participant in various charitable societies, helped during the famine in the Samara and Ufa provinces, and on her initiative the first public reading room was opened in the Sterlitamak district.

But her main efforts were aimed at changing the situation of people with disabilities. For 45 years, she did everything to ensure that blind people had the opportunity to become full-fledged members of society.

She was able to find the means and strength to open the first specialized printing house in Russia, where in 1885 the first edition of the “Collection of Articles for children's reading, published and dedicated to blind children by Anna Adler."

To produce the book in Braille, she worked seven days a week until late at night, personally typing and proofreading page after page. Later, Anna Alexandrovna translated the musical notation system, and blind children were able to learn to play musical instruments.

With her active assistance, a few years later the first group of blind students graduated from the St. Petersburg School for the Blind, and a year later - from the Moscow School.

Literacy and vocational training helped graduates find jobs, which changed the stereotypical idea of ​​their incapacity. Anna Adler just barely lived to see the opening of the First Congress of the All-Russian Society of the Blind.

The whole life of the famous Russian surgeon is a series of brilliant discoveries, practical use which saved more than one life. The men considered him a wizard who attracted higher powers for his “miracles.”

He was the first in the world to use surgery in the field, and his decision to use anesthesia saved not only his patients from suffering, but also those who lay on the tables of his students later. Through his efforts, the splints were replaced with bandages soaked in starch.

He was the first to use the method of sorting the wounded into those who were seriously injured and those who would make it to the rear. This reduced the mortality rate significantly. Before Pirogov, even a minor wound to the arm or leg could result in amputation. He personally carried out operations and tirelessly ensured that the soldiers were provided with everything they needed: warm blankets, food, water.

According to legend, it was Pirogov who taught Russian academics to perform plastic surgery, demonstrating the successful experience of implanting a new nose on the face of his barber, whom he helped get rid of deformity. Being an excellent teacher, about whom all the students spoke with warmth and gratitude, he believed that the main task of education is to teach to be human.