# Kids

Honoring Youth Heroes

June 3, 2005 - Kids everywhere are helping out around communities. These children have done things such as volunteering, raising money for patients with cancer, even helping out at the local YMCA. Whatever the reason may be, whether it’s to help the ill or just to put a smile on someone else’s face, it’s nice to know that children can make a difference in the world.

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Scout's Volunteer Garden Yields Harvest of Compassion, and Sharing for Food Banks

Where others saw only a vacant lot filled with weeds, Levit imagined a lush, organic garden whose yield would feed the poor, hungry, and homeless.

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Thousands Raised for Cancer Research by 8 Year-Old Girl Honoring Dad

Why did Georgetown University rename its cancer research lab in honor a donation of just $5,000? Because the money was raised by a nine year-old girl.

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Deafblind Girl Jumps Out of Plane to Raise Money for Those Less Fortunate

Nicola Henderson, 17, jumped out of an airplane at 10,000 ft. and free fell at over 120 miles per hour for five thousand feet, harnessed to a professional parachute instructor, returning to earth to the cheers of those below. Nicole is deaf and blind but not letting disability ruin her life.

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Youth Volunteers Deliver Caring Friendships to Armenian Elderly Shut-Ins

An Armenian Red Cross project to help elderly refugees has resulted in some unexpected friendships. The Psycho Social Care for Elderly Refugees project, started in May 1999, assists seniors cut off from society in sickness and poverty

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17 Year-Old Out To Prove That Guys Are Not Idiots!

Rob Sowell, 17, has always loved children. Even when he was in elementary school, he gave up recesses to watch the smaller kids while their teachers stepped out. But he feels as a teenager that society unfairly views with disfavor the expressing of his love...Rob set out to change things.

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Jerry "the Nose Picker" Finds Acceptance in School Thanks to Classmate

Before, he would timidly walk down the hall trying not to be noticed. Now, since the girl started eating lunch with him at his table, he walks with his head held high and enters a classroom with so much confidence.

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Teens Are Instant Heroes For Saving a Boy Who Fell Off a Cliff

These teens didn't waste a moment, springing into action when they saw a 5-year-old boy slip off of a cliff and into a fast-moving river.