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Jewish-American Kids Donating Money to Build Playgrounds in Israel

Playgrounds are being built in Israel thanks to Jewish kids donating money received for barmitzvah.

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Weeding by Example: New Orleans Boy Inspired to Help Rebuild

A New Orleans boy determined to help his community rebuild, is doing it one blade of grass at a time, mowing and weeding land untouched since hurricane Katrina.

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Girls' Team Returns from Africa with Opened Eyes

Traveling abroad for a teen, especially to Africa, can "jump-start a lifetime of social and moral awareness." For a D.C. girls soccer team, a trip to South Africa opened their eyes to the poverty and HIV/AIDS epidemic burdening girls their age...

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Students Feed Homeless Despite City Warnings

"For nearly two years, students, parents and staff at the Mathematics, Civics and Sciences Charter School have handed out food and supplies to the homeless once a week on the sidewalk near JFK Plaza in Philadelphia." But last Thursday the new city manager asked them to stop and sent police to the scene.

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Third Graders Helping to Stop Childhood Hunger

Baking cookies and selling brownies don't seem like solutions that could end childhood hunger, yet, thanks to the Great American Bake Sale Campaign, 5.3 million nutritious meals and snacks were served to low-income children paid for by proceeds from bakes sales all across the country.

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Teenagers Use Internet to Raise $300K for Darfur

"In a campaign to raise money for the people of Darfur, two high school students, using social networking sites Facebook and MySpace, have raised more than $300,000 from students at 2,000 high schools, showing the strength of banding together over the Internet."

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Young Scholars Tell the President "No" on Torture

141 Presidential Scholars were being honored recently at the White House, when they handed him a letter signed by close to 50 of the students that urged an end to torture and detainee rendition.

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Teen Turns Trash into Computers for Needy Families

Fifteen-year-old Jacob Komar rebuilds old computers that are destined for the landfill and gives them to needy families -- 1,500 since he was nine years old.