Youth Saves Hundreds of Chilean Islanders After Sounding Alarm
A 12 year-old girl saved the lives of scores of inhabitants of Juan Fernandez archipelago, 373 miles from the Chilean coastline, when she sounded the alert following an earthquake.
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Twins Accepted Into 56 Colleges With $1.6M in Scholarship Money-Just for Mom
These siblings went to extreme lengths to make sure their mother would never have to sacrifice for their education ever again.
Good Deeds Earn Good Grades at L.A. High School
For years, a high school in downtown Los Angeles has made doing good deeds a part of the school's curriculum. Now social services agencies are counting on the students' help.
Every Senior at All-Black Urban Acadamy in Chicago is College Bound
Englewood's Urban Prep Academy for Young Men in Chicago has fulfilled its lofty mission within four years: 100 percent of its first senior class has been accepted to four-year colleges.
Elementary Kids Raise Thousands for Wheelchairs, Instead of Selves
From doing extra chores to collecting from the Tooth Fairy, Top of the World Elementary students spent the last month getting creative about fundraising. The $4,520 collected isn't going to a school program, though. Teachers asked students to look beyond their needs and support the Free Wheelchair Mission, an Irvine-based nonprofit organization that sends specialized wheelchairs to countries around the world.
Survey Shows 3 Out of 4 Girls Happy With Their Bodies
According to a national survey released by the Girl Scouts on the eve of New York City's legendary Fashion Week, most girls are happy with their bodies and reject thin fashion models as unrealistic.
3 Year-old Gives Prosthetic Leg to Haiti
A 3 year-old girl was watching the news on TV in New Mexico when she heard there were children who lost their limbs. She ran to her bedroom closet to fetch her own prosthetic limb -- one that she had outgrown -- and told her mom she wanted to give it to a child in Haiti.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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)
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.
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.
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.
Only Film Clip of Anne Frank Surfaces on YouTube
On July 22 1941, before her family had gone into hiding, Anne Frank is captured on film during the next door neighbor's wedding festivities. She is leaning out of the window of her house in Amsterdam to get a good look at the bride and groom.
Urban Philly Teens Compete for $10Million X Prize for Hybrid Car Design
A team at West Philadelphia High School is hoping to win the top prize of $10 million in the prestigious Automotive X Prize competition, even though they are the only high school competitor in a field of about 90 teams from the U.S. and overseas.
Four-Year-Old Girl Helps Build Water Well for Needy
Four-year-old Heather Bailey saw an interview with a grandma and her grandchildren about their difficulties obtaining clean water and decided she wanted to help. When she learned it would cost more than $1,000, she said she wanted to build the whole well and began fundraised with a lemonade stand and selling cupcakes and her own artwork.
National Day of Encouragement September 12 Honors Teens Making a Difference
The Encouragement Foundation, sponsor of this year's National Day of Encouragement, launched its "7 Days Across America" campaign to showcase the impressive actions of today's youth. The tour, which began September 5 in San Francisco, will conclude in New York City honoring a $5,000 college scholarship winner on its third annual National Day of Encouragement, September 12.
A Girl's Journey from Dollar-a-day Malawi to Elite US Prep School
In an unlikely journey that most girls in Malawi can only dream of, a 16-year-old from a rural village spent the summer attending Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire. She's one of 17 girls who go to secondary school in Malawi thanks to scholarships from Advancing Girls' Education in Africa (AGE), a small nonprofit organization founded four years ago.
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