WATCH: A feel good story for your Friday. Van Gogh Designs Furniture will donate furniture worth $170,000 over a 2-3 year period to Surrrey Memorial Hospital. Meet Jeet Dhindsa President and CEO Of VanGogh Designs who joined DARPAN to talk about this philanthropic act during these #COVID19 times.
Based in South Surrey Van Gogh Designs has been manufacturing handcrafted furniture locally since 1993.
Broadway seamstress Amy Micallef hasn't put her talent on hold while theatres are shut. She's been making plush toys — unusual plush toys.
One hundred and 14 days. That’s how long Mary Daniel went without seeing her husband after the coronavirus banned visitors from his nursing home, separating the couple for the first time since he was diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer's seven years ago.
Outside, the soundtrack of sirens wailed, each another death blow to the city that had nurtured my development as a musician for so long. But from inside my life on lockdown, an unexpected reconnection to my catalogue of sounds was handing me hope for New York's future.
At 24, Sama al-Diwani and her college sweetheart had big dreams. Those dreams came to a screeching halt with the outbreak of the coronavirus, as countries shut down, economies buckled and global chaos followed.
If the past three months without a service dog have been a challenge for Ann Moxley, the next year seems poised to be a struggle.
Sharon Robinson scours the house for her shoes, then has to sneak past the guard at her front door before she can leave for work each day.