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Kids Helping Kids When children are in the hospital because of an injury or illness, adults can sometimes forget that the kids are still kids. When Mischa Zimmermann was diagnosed with a brain tumor in 1996, he spent a lot of time in the hospital, and sometimes all he had to keep himself entertained...
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Kids Who Care Foundation When children are sick in the hospital, who would know better what they’re going through than another child who’s been there? In March of 2004, a girl named Risha was just 7 years old when she underwent an auto islet cell transplant for chronic pancreatitis. She spent...
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Students for Organ Donation In 2003, Richard Ludlow and his brother John formed Students for Organ Donation when they learned a family member was on a waiting list for a kidney transplant. They found out that the lack of awareness about organ donation was the reason that few donor organs were available...
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Free Bytes Most people can’t imagine life without computers. Computers have provided learning opportunities to children and adults alike and have made work easier to complete. However, when money isn’t in the budget to provide enough computers, small businesses—like non-profit groups—sometimes...
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Kids for a Clean Environment In 1989, at the age of 9, Melissa Poe knew the importance of taking care of the environment. She wanted to make sure that people knew she cared about keeping the planet clean and healthy, so she started the group Kids F.A.C.E. (Kids for a Clean Environment). Her group started...
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Unite for Sight Sometimes it’s easy for healthy people to take their good health for granted, whether it’s the ability to see, hear, speak, feel or move around. There are people who live each day without these abilities. Thankfully, there are groups that create resources for people with health...
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Offering the Homeless a Helping Hand with A Place 2 Call Home Most people have the comfort of knowing they can lay their head down on a pillow, under warm blankets, in their own bed and in their own home. Unfortunately, there are many people who don’t have the luxury of having a place to call home...
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Cure Breast Cancer Foundation Carly Abramson of New Jersey was twelve years old when her mom, Lisa, was diagnosed with breast cancer, and it was just a short time after Carly’s grandmother had died of cancer. To help comfort her mom while she was in the hospital, Carly made her a beaded key ring...
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Protect-A-Dog and the Penny Princess One 13-year-old girl in California proves that collecting change makes a lot of sense. Six years ago, Alyssa Mayorga began collecting pennies that she found on the street and around her house. She knew that by saving the pennies, the money would add up. Alyssa used...
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Kids Konnected Living and coping with a cancer diagnosis is devastating for everyone. No question. But what happens to a child whose parent is diagnosed? Who can help them understand and deal with the realities of the situation? Eleven-year-old Jon Wagner-Holtz knows the answer. He established Kids Konnected...