# Kids

Soles for Souls in Haiti

For the past 2 weeks, 7-year-old kids in an Alabama elementary school have has been obsessed with shoes, frantically collecting as many as they can for donation to the victims of Haiti's earthquake.

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14 Year Old Makes a Difference for Rwandan Girls

Jessica was only a sixth grader when she learned that most girls in Rwanda are orphans, and they don't have the money or materials to attend school. Over the next several years, she rallied her classmates to raise money for rural Rwandan girls through bake sales, tee shirt sales and donation drives.

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Boy, 7, Raises $200,000 for Haiti

Seven-year-old Charlie Simpson from London has raised more than £136,000 ($220,000) for Haitian earthquake survivors.

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Kid's Cancer Touches Garbage Men's Hearts

A 12 year-old girl who had beaten cancer when she was younger, annually designs holiday cards to help raise money for pediatric cancer research. The card she created this year was given to the two men who haul trash, who later returned inspired, to give a donation.

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Photo of the Week: 18-Day-old Infant Rescued After 8 Days in Haiti

Elizabeth, an 18-day-old infant, rests in a tent hospital after spending eight days trapped in her home before being rescued during earthquake relief efforts. - U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Daniel Barker (Jan. 20, Jacmel, Haiti)

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Boy Collects One Thousand Socks for Needy Kids

11 year-old Tanner asks everyone he meets to consider what life would be like without socks. Launching a holiday sock drive to benefit needy children in Orlando, so far, he's collected more than 500 pairs -- and he's hoping for more by his Dec. 14 deadline.

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Top CNN Heroes 2009: Boys Cart Portable Schoolroom to Reach Landfill Kids

Efren Peñaflorida grew up in a Filipino slum near the city dump but vowed to better his life through education. In 1999, while in high school, he recruited friends to reach out to slum kids as an alternative to gang membership, always rampant on-campus.

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Cancer Survivor, 9, Funds Support Dog for 2-Year-old

After two years of surgery and chemotherapy for a brain tumor, a nine-year-old girl wanted other kids with cancer to have a gentle companion like her dog, Coco. So she embarked on a fundraising campaign of her own invention to pay for feeding and training companion dogs for kids like her.