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Schools Recycle More Than 48,000 Pounds of Beverage Cans to Win Awards

School kids demonstrated a "can-do" attitude in this season's Aluminum Can Recycling National School Challenge. 133 schools, representing more than 70,000 students, joined with aluminum suppliers and beverage can manufacturers in the competition. Collectively, over the 12-week period they raised over $53,000 and recycled more than 48,094 pounds of used aluminum beverage cans.

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.

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.