Message about the good deeds of famous people. Celebrity good deeds

You may have already known about someone's kindness, and someone may open up to you from a completely new side:

Keanu Reeves

IN last years revealed the fact that Reeves is not very worried about money. In fact, he went so far as to give $80 million of his royalties from The Matrix to the special effects team as well as the costume designers behind the trilogy. He explained his act by saying that he believes that the success of the film series is the merit of these people, and not him.

Dean Kootz

A fan wrote to Koontz about his friend not liking Koontz's work and asked for a postcard that would essentially send his friend to hell in a vicious manner. Instead, he received a witty postcard for his friend.

Stephen Fry


Stephen Fry has touched not one life but countless lives with his openness about his mental health issues. Although many see these issues as a career-damaging stigma, Fry is open about his issues and has become president of the mental health charity Mind, which is dedicated to raising public awareness of mental illness and is the voice of those who suffer from them.

Russell Brand (Russell Brand)

Brand talked about how he knows what it's like to be at the very bottom of life, being former alcoholic and a heroin addict, it is for this reason that he spends time with homeless people from his area. He has been photographed and seen countless times with the homeless, taking them to breakfast and helping them in all sorts of ways.

Will.i.am (Will.i.am)


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

Woody HarrelsonWoody Harrelson


While attending a great New York party, 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, "Thank you Woody! White people can still jump!”

John Cena


This athlete has fulfilled the most wishes for the Dream Come True Charitable Foundation - he has 400 wishes on his account (100 of which were fulfilled from June 2013 to February 2014).

Ryan GoslingRyan Gosling

A British journalist was rescued by an actor when she almost stepped onto the road in front of a taxi in New York. She tweeted about the incident, saying that she was looking the other way, having lived in London all her life, when Gosling grabbed her arm and pulled her back onto the pavement.

Mila Kunis

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

Lady Gaga

Lady Gaga is known for the fact that she promotes faith in herself through her popularity, no matter how different we are from others. After she heard that one of her fans had committed suicide because he was being taunted about his sexual orientation, she shone her concert on him and his picture was everywhere on the screens - it was an act of unity with a fan and other people from all over the world suffering in similar situations.

Ti Ai (T.I.)

This rapper dropped everything to talk a man out of committing suicide. The police tried to reason with the man to go down from the parapet. He considered it necessary to help, telling the man that everything would be fine and that everything in the world was not 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 that tells the story of women subjected to mass rape during the war in Bosnia. This choice was clearly not made for the purpose of fame, as it was filmed and written in Bosnian.

Zoe Saldana

After witnessing a car crash in Culver City, California, Zoe came to the aid of an elderly woman involved in the collision. Eyewitnesses stated that Saldana immediately called the emergency services and, while talking to a representative of the service, helped the injured woman out of the car, and even while they were waiting ambulance made sure the woman was given a bag from the car.

Zach Galifianakis

Zach rescued a homeless woman. Mimi, a woman Zach knew from the local laundry long before he became famous, found herself on the street. As soon as Zach found out about this, he offered to pay the rent for her. He even took her to the premiere of The Hangover: Part III.

Patrick Dempsey


According to TMZ, the teen lost control of his Mustang and after the car rolled over several times, he finally came to a stop in front of the actor's house. Dempsey ran outside to help the young driver and, using a crowbar, freed the teenager from the car, after which he called the rescue service.

Johnny Depp

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

Tyler Perry


Upon hearing that a woman suffering from cerebral palsy had her custom-fitted 2000 Chrysler Town & Country car stolen from her Georgia home, director Perry offered to give her another van.

Gary Sinese


Since playing the role of Lieutenant Dan in Forrest Gump, which he plunged into, Sinise has been determined to help disabled veterans and their families. He recently took 50 war-wounded soldiers on a fully paid trip to Disneyland in California.

Tom Cruise

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

"Rus' is not without good people!" Russian people can be safely attributed to the most sympathetic peoples of the world. And we have someone to look up to.

Okolnichiy Fyodor Rtishchev

Even 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 from that rare breed of people who put the interests of others above their own "I want." It was on the initiative of bright person"The first shelters for the poor appeared not only in Moscow, but also abroad. For Rtishchev it was business as usual pick up a drunk on the street and take him to a temporary shelter organized by him - an analogue of a modern sobering-up station. How many were saved from death and did not freeze in the street, one can only guess.

In 1671, Fyodor Mikhailovich sent grain carts to the starving Vologda, and then the money received from the sale of personal property. And when he found out about the need of the Arzamas residents for additional lands, he simply presented his own.

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

Empress Maria Feodorovna

The second wife of Paul I, Maria Fedorovna, was famous for her excellent health and tirelessness. Starting the morning with cold douches, prayers 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 the 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 Humanitarian Society, which existed until the beginning of the 20th century.

Having 9 children of her own, she especially anxiously took care of abandoned babies: the sick were nursed in foster homes, strong and healthy - in trustworthy peasant families.

This approach has significantly reduced child mortality. With all the scale of her activities, Maria Fedorovna paid attention to trifles that are not essential for life. So, in Obukhovskaya psychiatric hospital Petersburg, each patient received their own kindergarten.

Her will contains the following lines: “Give life to Your Spirit with meekness, love and mercy. Be helpers and benefactors to the suffering and the poor.”

Prince Vladimir Odoevsky

A descendant of the Rurikids, Prince Vladimir Odoevsky was convinced that the thought he had sown would certainly "sprout tomorrow" or "in a thousand years." Close friend 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, tirelessly intervened in the fate of the most disadvantaged. He was ready to rush to the aid of anyone who applied, and in everyone he saw a “living string” that could be made to sound for the good of the cause.

The St. Petersburg Society for Visiting the Poor, organized by him, helped 15,000 needy families.

There was a women's workshop, a children's rooming house with a school, a hospital, hostels for the elderly and families, and a social store.

Despite his origins and connections, Odoevsky did not seek to occupy an important post, believing that in a "secondary position" he was able to 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.

Prince Peter of Oldenburg

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 in which soldiers' children were trained at the place of service. Later, this successful experience was applied to other regiments.

In 1834, the prince witnessed the public punishment of a woman who was driven through the soldiers' formation, after which he petitioned for dismissal, stating that he would never be able to carry out such orders.

Petr Georgievich devoted his further life to charity. He was a trustee and an honorary member of many institutions and societies, including the Kyiv House of Charity for the Poor.

Sergey Skyrmunt

Retired lieutenant Sergei Skyrmunt 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 in a single estate.

At the age of 30, when Sergei Apollonovich painfully pondered over future fate, 2.5 million rubles fell on him from the deceased distant relative.

The inheritance was not squandered or played at cards. One part of it became the basis for donations to the Society for the Promotion of Public Entertainment, the founder of which was Skyrmunt 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.

Anna Adler

All this life amazing woman was dedicated to educational and pedagogical work. She was an active participant in various charitable societies, helped during the famine in the Samara and Ufa provinces, on her initiative the first public reading room was opened in the Sterlitamak district. But its main efforts were aimed at changing the situation of people with handicapped. For 45 years, she has done everything so that the blind have the opportunity to become full 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 get the book out 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 system, and blind children were able to learn to play the 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 professional training helped graduates find jobs, which changed the stereotype of their incapacity. Anna Adler almost did not live to see the opening of the First Congress of the All-Russian Society of the Blind.

Nikolai Pirogov

The whole life of the famous Russian surgeon is a series of brilliant discoveries, practical use who saved more than one life. The peasants considered him a magician who, for his "miracles", attracted higher power. He was the first in the world to use surgery in the field, and the decision to use anesthesia saved not only his patients from suffering, but also those who lay on the tables of his students later. By his own efforts, the splints were replaced with bandages soaked in starch.

He was the first to use the method of sorting the wounded into heavy and those who make it to the rear. This has reduced the death rate by several times. Before Pirogov, even a minor wound in the arm or leg could end in amputation.

He personally carried out operations and tirelessly controlled that the soldiers were provided with everything necessary: ​​warm blankets, food, water.

According to legend, it was Pirogov who taught Russian academics to conduct plastic surgery, demonstrating the successful experience of engrafting a new nose on the face of his barber, whom he helped to get rid of ugliness.

Being an excellent teacher, about whom all the students spoke with warmth and gratitude, he believed that the main task of education was to teach to be a man.

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Doing good does not require any special abilities or grandiose opportunities. All this is the work of the hands of the most ordinary people. Which means that everyone can do it.

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Boxing champion builds 1,000 houses for poor Filipinos

Manny Pacquiao was once an ordinary Filipino boy from poor family, but now he is the only boxer in the world who has won the world championship in 8 weight categories. For the first large fee, he built houses for the inhabitants of his native village of Tango. Today, a thousand houses have already been built with his money.

Syrian stays in abandoned Aleppo to take care of cats

Alaa Jaleel from Aleppo risked his life every day to provide food and shelter for those in need. And when people left the city, he stayed behind to take care of their pets. He has over a hundred cats, including a kitten that a little girl left for him when she left. “I said I would take care of him until she came back,” says Ala.

The teacher organized a "Gentlemen's Club" for boys from single-parent families

Raymond Nelson is a teacher at a high school in South Carolina. He could not manage to cope with the bullies from his class. And then he bought jackets and ties and created the "Gentlemen's Club", where the boys once a week learn what fathers usually tell their sons: how to tie ties, how to address elders, and how to be courteous to mother, grandmother or sister. The strict dress code invented by Nelson serves a purpose, because a person dressed in a tuxedo will not fight. “I understand that they behave badly not because they are bad, but because they simply do not have enough attention and love,” the teacher says.

Danish woman saves 2-year-old Nigerian boy abandoned by parents

Almost a year has passed since Dane Anja Ringgren Loven found an emaciated two-year-old on the street. She named him Hope (Hope - hope). His own parents kicked the boy out of the house, considering him a "sorcerer." Then he was a little over a year old, and he survived only thanks to handouts from passers-by. Anya took him to her orphanage, which she maintains with her husband, David Emmanuel Umem. 35 rescued children from one to 14 years old live in it.

When Anya posted a photo with Hope on Facebook, users from all over the world began to transfer money to her. In total, $ 1 million was collected. Anya and her husband plan to have a big Orphanage and a clinic for children. And Hope now does not at all resemble a “skeleton on legs”. This cheerful kid, who, according to the foster mother, "is enjoying life with might and main."

The runner donated a future medal to help an injured rival

At the Olympics, in the 5,000 meters race, New Zealand runner Nikki Humbley collided with American Abby D'Agostino. Nikki helped her rival to her feet and they ran together, supporting each other. Both athletes not only reached the final, but were also awarded the Pierre de Coubertin medal for showing nobility and true spirit sports during the Olympic Games.

Thousands of people supported the girl whose birthday no one came

None of the invitees came to the birthday of 18-year-old Halle Sorenson (Hallee Sorenson). Then her cousin Rebecca asked netizens to support Halle with a postcard with a couple warm words. And an amazing thing happened - the post office in Maine was flooded with letters and postcards. In total, the girl received 10 thousand cards and gifts.

Schoolchildren repeated the graduation ceremony for their classmate who was in a car accident

Scott Dunn got into trouble car accident just before graduation. After coming out of his coma, Scott was terribly upset that he had missed such an important day. But as soon as the young man was on the mend, his parents received a call from the principal of the school and said: "We want to do something special for your son." It turned out that Scott's classmates prepared a personal graduation for him. The holiday was repeated, and congratulatory speeches, and the outfits of graduates, but this time only one diploma was awarded. Scott was amazed to the core: “I have no words. It's incredible to realize how many people, it turns out, care about me.

A homeless Thai man received a house and a job in gratitude for his honest deed

A 44-year-old homeless Thai named Waralop found a wallet in a subway station. Despite the fact that he had no money at all, and in his wallet were 20 thousand baht ($ 580) and credit cards, he did not spend them on his own needs, but took the find to the police. The owner of the wallet turned out to be 30-year-old factory owner Niity Pongkriangyos, who was struck by the honesty of the homeless man. He admitted that if he himself was in such a position, he would hardly have returned the wallet. In gratitude, Niichi provided Varalop with a service apartment and a job in his factory. Now the former homeless man earns 11,000 baht ($317) a month and no longer sleeps on the subway.

How they do it:

“The world has become smaller,” some will say. “People have become cruel,” others will attest. And only a third will object: "Russia is not without good people." WITH last expression One cannot but agree after reading the stories of these five personalities.

Fedor Mikhailovich Rtishchev

The nobleman Fyodor Mikhailovich Rtishchev, during his lifetime, received the nickname "gracious husband", and his name was recorded in the synodiki (commemoration) of countless monasteries and churches in gratitude for his activities and financial investments.

Fyodor Rtishchev was a friend and colleague of Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich. During his life, he built many schools, shelters for the poor, hospitals, and became the founder of the Andreevsky Monastery. This man, seeing a drunk lying on the pavement, could easily take him and take him to a shelter. During the Russo-Polish war, Rtishchev achieved success in peace negotiations with representatives of the Commonwealth. During the battles, Fedor Mikhailovich carried both his own and the enemy from the battlefield. He hired doctors for his own money, bought food for the wounded and prisoners.

F. M. Rtishchev at the Monument "1000th Anniversary of Russia" in Veliky Novgorod.

Most of all, his contemporaries remember the case when, in 1671, during a severe famine in Vologda, Rtishchev sent there 200 measures of bread, 100 gold and 900 silver rubles. These donations came from the sale of some of the nobleman's property. When Fyodor Mikhailovich found out that the inhabitants of Arzamas were in desperate need of land, he simply donated his possessions to the city. When Rtishchev died, his “life” appeared in the monasteries. This was practically the only case when a righteous life was described, not a monk, but a layman.

Anna Adler

Anna Alexandrovna Adler devoted her whole life to helping children with disabilities. In the 19th century, activities charitable foundations was mainly aimed at satisfying only the physical needs of the disabled for food and shelter. They were deprived of the opportunity to realize themselves in society.

Anna Adler herself was engaged in educating the blind in order to prove to others that they can also learn and earn their living, like everyone else. This woman mastered the Braille system, found funds to purchase a printing press in Germany, and set about creating teaching aids for the blind. In addition to teaching literacy, Anna Adler's schools for the blind taught boys how to weave baskets and rugs, and girls how to knit and sew. Over time, Anna Alexandrovna translated the notes into a form understandable to the blind, so that they could learn to play musical instruments. The first graduates of the school for the blind in Moscow and St. Petersburg, with the active assistance of Anna Adler, were able to find work. This woman managed to break the established stereotypes about the incapacity of the blind.

Nikolai Pirogov

Nikolai Ivanovich Pirogov became famous as a brilliant surgeon, naturalist, teacher. Already at the age of 26, he was appointed professor at the University of Dorpat. Pirogov devoted his whole life to saving people. The soldiers called him a magician who worked miracles right on the battlefield.

Nikolai Ivanovich was the first to distribute the wounded on the battlefield, immediately deciding who should be sent to the hospital first and who got off lightly. This practice has significantly reduced the amputation of limbs and the death rate of soldiers. In operations, Pirogov was the first in Russia to use anesthesia, thereby relieving the wounded from excruciating pain.

In addition to performing his direct duties, Nikolai Pirogov carefully ensured that warm blankets and food were delivered to the soldiers. When after graduation Crimean War Nikolai Ivanovich got an audience with Emperor Alexander II, then in his hearts he began to talk about backwardness Russian army and her weapons. After this conversation, Pirogov was sent from the capital to serve in Odessa, which can be regarded as a manifestation of the disgrace of the sovereign.

Pirogov did not despair and directed all his energy to pedagogical activity. The scientist zealously opposed class education and the use of corporal punishment. “Being a man is what education should lead to,” Pirogov thought so. Unfortunately, Pirogov met with a decisive rebuff from the officials. All the students spoke of him as a brilliant teacher who cared not only for their education, but for the upbringing of high moral qualities.

Sergey Skyrmunt

In the second half of the 19th century, there lived a certain Sergei Apollonovich Skyrmunt. He was serving as an army lieutenant when a fortune fell on him. From a deceased distant relative, the 30-year-old officer got 2.5 million rubles, land and a farm. But, unlike many suddenly rich people, Skyrmunt did not go all out.

He donated some of the money to charity. In his Crimean estate, the newly minted landowner decided to improve the living conditions of the peasants. Instead of dilapidated shacks, new houses were built. There was also a hospital and a school. Needless to say, the inhabitants of the estate prayed daily for the health of the landowner.

Vladimir Odoevsky

The noble birth of the writer and philosopher Vladimir Odoevsky did not prevent him from showing sincere participation in the fate of people of the lower classes. The prince actively advocated the abolition of serfdom.

Odoevsky organized the Society for Visiting the Poor, which provided assistance to 15,000 poor families. The needy or the elderly could apply to the society and receive medical care. Prince Odoevsky was called a "strange scientist", whose main quality was virtue.

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

"Soulful Bazar" is a project aimed at promoting charity among citizens, which tells about the activities of various non-profit organizations, shows options for participating in charity and offers to choose a convenient and pleasant way to help for each of us.

Today we will talk about the powerful and touching acts of kindness performed by famous people around the world.

Robert Downey Jr donated a hand-shaped prosthesis to a disabled child iron man»

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

Johnny Depp arrived in the image of his favorite hero to the hospital for sick children

Being on the set of the next part of "Pirates caribbean”, the actor took time out from filming to visit sick children in a hospital in Brisbane, Australia. The unexpected visit of the actor caused a real pleasant shock to the little patients in 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 give each child at least a little of his time.

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

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

The popular singer donated his entire fee from the show "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 fund " Gift a life". Thanks to her foundation,today in Russia 85-90% of children with this terrible diagnosis have learned to help. IN 2014 magazine " Ogonyok put Chulpan in 14th place in the ranking« top 100 powerful women Russia".

The Konstantin Khabensky Charitable Foundation helps children with complex diseases

During the first five years, the fund managed to save 130 children's lives. IN interview« Moskovskie Novosti,” he explained why he decided to do it: “I just remember those eyes. Not the eyes of a child, because he is not afraid of death yet - he has not gained 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 in your colleagues. Something so important appears, that stays with you forever.

Gosha Kutsenko Foundationhelps children with cerebral palsy