What would you do if told you only had months to live? Bob Charland, 44, was diagnosed with a neurodegenerative brain disease earlier this year. Hearing that he had an aggressive terminal illness rocked his and his family’s world, but he rebounded, deciding to make the time he has leftContinue Reading
Ted Qualli, the 66-year-old janitor at Newtown Elementary School, knows the names of every one of the school’s 850 students. Of course he is the first person to arrive in the morning and the last person to leave at night. But he does much more than cleaning classrooms. He wearsContinue Reading
Twelve students from San Fernando High School, a math, science, and technology magnet school in the Los Angeles area, spent all last year working on a project to create solar-powered shelters for the homeless. These16 and 17 year old girls are mostly from low-income families, and are either the daughtersContinue Reading
“It was a struggle. It was rough,” Elijah says of his time growing up in Compton, where only a little over half of students graduate high school. He remembers a defining moment when he was little: “It was kind of late at night, my mom ran into my room, andContinue Reading
Raven Osborne is the first student in the history of Indiana to earn a bachelor’s degree before receiving her high school diploma! A week before she gets her diploma in May, she’ll be graduating from Purdue University with a bachelor’s degree in sociology with a minor in early childhoodContinue Reading
Sidney Keys, an 11-year old African-American, noticed that his St. Louis school library had very few books about kids like himself. So he started Books n Bros, a book club for 8- to 12-year-olds who get together and read African-American literature. Sidney also wanted to improve literacy among his peers,Continue Reading
Kayla Abramowitz, the Founder and CKO (Chief Kid Officer) of Kayla Cares 4 Kids, herself has Crohn’s disease and juvenile arthritis. At 11 years old, after extended hospital stays of her own, she wondered what she could do to help other kids. She was too young to volunteer in children’sContinue Reading
Fidencio Sanchez, 89, pushed an ice cream cart for 23 years before retiring. However, after his only child died and his grandchildren were left in his care, he had to return to work. A humble immigrant from Mexico, Sanchez slowly walked his cart full of paletas, or popsicles, and adornedContinue Reading
Franklin County in a remote corner of Mississippi has two stoplights, one elementary school, and long ago lost its only train stop. Could kids learn chess here? Would they even want to? Dr. Jeff Bulington took on the challenge, accepted a contract from an anonymous benefactor, left his home cityContinue Reading
A campaign has been launched in England for people to wear safety pins to show that they are “safe” allies to immigrants or anyone else facing hatred, racism, and bigotry. Hate crimes have dramatically increased in Britain as well as in the U.S., and here is one small way forContinue Reading