A revolution has turned around Central Alternative High School in Appleton, Wisconsin, and its ‘problem kids’, sent there from twelve area schools. Respect, achievement, and discipline prevail where once kids packed weapons, took drugs, and exhibited “terrible rudeness.â€
"Moderate mental retardation" is a particularly cruel diagnosis for a boy obsessed with cars. It meant that Jake would not be able to drive a car. But, everything changed when his family pulled into the Ford dealership in Apple Valley and, for the first time, a salesmen did more than pay Jake a passing glance.
In New York's maximum-security prison in Auburn, inmates from the prison chapter of Vietnam Veterans of America spent their free time making Christmas gifts for needy children.
Heifer Project International (HPI) provides income-producing animals to people in nearly 40 countries. Shoppers buy an animal in honor of a friend or relative and send the recipient an attractive card describing the gift of hope being given in his or her name.
From sleeping in the streets and being recruited as a child soldier, Dr. Amporn rose from the dust to become the foster father of 50,000 Thai children.
In his 10 years as a mentor and tutor, Kenny Thompson has always done his best to meet the needs of the students in his life. That's exactly what he did when he heard last week that dozens of Utah students, whose accounts were delinquent, had their lunches taken and thrown away.
Charles Keller of Phoenix, Ariz., is such a massive fan of the 1960s Batman TV show, that he has an exact working replica of the Batmobile and the Bat-cave. Best of all, he turned his hobby into an opportunity to help kids with cancer.
Conor Grennan reunited Anish's parents with their missing son, whom they had mourned every day for four years. 350 such families would be surprised at how Conor got into the business of saving kids with Next Generation Nepal.
Knowing that even if a foster child is placed with a family, it doesn't guarantee a Christmas gift under the tree, Frances Smith for 15 years has used her annual vacation to amass new dolls, clothes, bikes, and games for every child in the foster care system of Coweta County, Georgia.
Real-life superheroes come in all shapes in sizes – like a child's dad paying attention at a baseball game.
A pair of former child brides took their plight to Zimbabwe's highest court, and won a ban on marriage for anyone under the age of 18.
Spring break may mean beaches, bikinis and beer for some, but students participating in Break Away, a national nonprofit group that steers people to community service projects, are delivering meals to AIDS patients, teaching Native American kids and repairing the environment in Utah.
UNICEF and the government of Rwanda have invited a professor from the University of B.C. to expand a 12-month nutritional pilot study involving 1,100 children into a national program for nearly half a million toddlers aged six months to two y
When a 5-year-old girl was scared to start kindergarten, a good deed from a stranger changed her mind.
As Nepalese struggle to recover from the devastation of last week's 7.9-magnitude earthquake, art therapy is helping children cope with the traumatic experience.
With great power comes great responsibility. Well done, little man.
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