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As rescue missions turn into recovery operations, a 17-year-old girl is pulled out alive from the rubble of a collapsed home in Haiti, 15 days after the devastating earthquake.

Haitian-American medical workers have traveled to their motherland to treat quake survivors and to help teach the medical workers they are serving alongside.

Through the I-Skate program, figure skating champion Dorothy Hamill is helping young children with cerebral palsy, brain damage, or paralysis receive therapy through sports.

A 3-year old Albuquerque girl donates her prosthetic leg so that it may be given to someone in need in Haiti. NBC’s Misa Maruyama reports.

By Jessica Ravitz, CNN
December 14, 2009 1:27 p.m. EST
Atlanta, Georgia (CNN) — Kevin Garibo hasn’t known life outside a hospital. Born three months ago with respiratory issues, he needed a procedure to breathe on his own. Nurses prod at him, medical machines hum around him and tubes are more present than teddy bears.
But in [...]

Danielle Johnson, NBCPhiladelphia.com
It played like a scene from a holiday movie, a mystery couple, who didn’t leave their names or numbers, walked into a restaurant, finished their meal and then set off a chain reaction of generosity that lasted for hours. READ MORE

DECEMBER 16, 2009 – Associated Press
The book Stanley Dudek finally returned to the New Bedford Public Library this week wasn’t overdue by a week, a month or even a year. It was nearly a century overdue. Read the story