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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
Camp Our Time focuses on the performing arts. Campers aged 8 to 19, are boys and girls, racially and socially diverse, with two common bonds: an unshakable stuttering problem and the courage to go on stage anyway.
17 year old Mike Perham was greeted to a hero's welcome when he arrived in Portsmouth, England after a nine month trip around the world.
Police in the Netherlands have arrested two men after the alleged muggers were identified on a picture taken at the crime scene by Google's internet map service.
Zach Bonner finally made it Thursday, climbing the steps of the U.S. Capitol and completing his walk from Tampa, Florida - a 1,225 mile trek - on behalf of homeless children.
16 year-old Zac Sunderland set off from California 13 months ago in his 36-foot sloop, Intrepid, before he even had a drivers license and became the first person under the age of 18 to sail solo-circumnavigating around the globe.
5-year-old Phoebe became sad after seeing a hunger person holding a cardboard sign on the street. She decided she wanted to help feed these people and knew that she could raise money by recycling cans, because her dad would bring her to trade cans for cash on the weekends. Collecting a nickel per can she wildly exceeded her goal of raising one thousand dollars and donated much more to the San Francisco food bank.