Exceptional Person News Today

Joan Willett, a 106-year-old resident of a Hastings care home in the UK, has been awarded the Prime Minister's Points of Light Award for her remarkable fundraising efforts for the British Heart Foundation (BHF). During the pandemic lockdown, Joan walked up and down a steep hill outside her care home several times a day to raise funds for BHF, and her efforts have garnered over £60,000 in donations.

After nearly two decades of experience as a painter exhibiting in other people’s galleries, Cambodian artist Chhan Dina opened her own gallery in early 2022 as an easier way to show her own work and the work of others from the Phnom Penh artistic community.