Stan Brock learned what being far from medical care really meant after a horse badly injured him in the wilderness of what was then British Guiana. He was working on Dadanawa Ranch, surrounded by thousands of square miles of savannah and rainforest, where horses, cattle, bush planes, and long distances were part of daily life. When he was hurt, the nearest doctor was roughly 26 days away on foot.
In 1994, Canadian businessman Lloyd Cenaiko traveled to Ukraine with his father to visit the places their family had come from. He wanted to meet relatives, learn about his family’s history and see a country he’d heard about for much of his life. At the time, Lloyd had a successful career in commercial real estate. … Read more
Rick Ruzzamenti had never even donated blood. Then, in February 2011, a receptionist at his yoga studio mentioned she’d given a kidney to a friend. The 44-year-old electrician from Riverside, California, couldn’t stop thinking about it. Two days later, he called a hospital and asked whether he could donate one of his kidneys to somebody … Read more
Meghan Rozema called an organ donation program in Alberta in 2020 with a straightforward plan. She wanted to give one of her kidneys to someone who needed it. She wasn’t trying to help a relative or a close friend. The mother of three from Sherwood Park wanted to donate to a complete stranger. During the … Read more
In May 2025, Luke Melling stood in a park in Preston, England, waiting to meet a man who had helped save his life. The man was Alastair Hawken, a father of three from Lincolnshire. They had never met in person, but Luke had been carrying Alastair’s donated stem cells inside his body for three years. … Read more