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March 4, 2021
AP – In 200 stories over this pandemic-ridden year, AP has celebrated selfless people who have given of themselves in trying times.
The stories have warmed hearts of readers around the world. But we’ve also heard from people spotlighted in the series launched last March as
One Good Thing who reported that lives had been profoundly affected by the attention they received.
There was the Texas principal whose school runs a free store providing food and goods to the community and who wrote to say a talk show wanted to book a teenager featured in the
AP’s story.
Here are excerpts from a few of our favourite follow-up notes.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
In 200 stories over this pandemic-ridden year, The Associated Press has celebrated selfless people who have given of themselves in trying times.
The stories have warmed hearts of readers around the world. But we’ve also heard from people spotlighted in the series launched last March as “One Good Thing” who reported that lives had been profoundly affected by the attention they received.
There was the Texas principal whose school runs a free store providing food and goods to the community and who wrote to say a talk show wanted to book a teenager featured in the AP’s story. The volunteer tutor for isolated students who said even her doctor called with congratulations. The manager of a New York City initiative to get meals to Holocaust survivors who reported that calls, volunteers and thousands of dollars in donations had flooded in.
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Inmates sitting inside a room, watch a recorded music lesson in Avlona prison. With Greece’s schools shut due to the pandemic, all lessons have gone online. So the Avlona Special Youth Detention Cente found away to virtual learning even with all internet devices banned by law from the cells. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)
Young men ages 18-25 can be seen watching a televised education program cell to cell in the Avlona Prison north of Athens. Men follow along making purses out of newspaper, learning the basics of math, exploring science and more. The program was a long process in the making. When the pandemic began, Greece’s schools were moved online, but the students of Avlona Special Youth Detention Center did not have access to electronics and the teachers had no experience setting up a TV channel. This did not stop the school’s director Petros Damianos.