Kids Who Make A Difference In This Crazy World

By ALYSSA NEWCOMB

Feb. 8, 2012

The cost of renovations to a century-old home that has been in the family for three generations brought a Wisconsin woman perilously close to eviction, until her 12-year-old grandson stepped in.

"I wasn't even sure I was going to make it," Noah Lamaide said of his fundraising effort.

The budding philanthropist raised $10,500 in the course of a month, saving his grandmother's Stevens Point home from a scheduled auction date of Feb. 15.

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Jeneece Edroff has something big to unwrap Saturday, in celebration of her 18th birthday.

That's when the ribbon will be cut and the doors opened at the aptly named Jeneece Place, which has been built as much from her drive and determination as wood, concrete and drywall.

"It will be a combination of an opening and a 'Happy Birthday' to Jeneece," said her mother, Angie.

Snowy weather this week led to the postponement of the opening from today.

Ground was broken on the $5.5-million, 10,500 square-foot "home away from home" last April.

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Bill Gates, the legend goes, started the empire that would one day become Microsoft in his garage. More recently, Cameron Cohen got a start on what looks to be a promising future while stuck at home in a hip-to-toe leg brace for six months. Cameron taught himself computer programming, came up with and wrote the software for a new iPhone/iPod application called iSketch and submitted it to Apple Inc., which now sells it in its online apps store.

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There is much about 7-year-old Evan Moss that is not exceptional. He is in constant motion. He can speak endlessly about Pokemon. He thinks the cartoon "Phineas and Ferb" is, "like, hilarious."

But Evan Moss also has epilepsy and suffers from severe, possibly life-threatening seizures. And when he found out that there was a type of specially trained dog that can detect seizures and act to help him, Evan had the idea to write a book to help raise the $13,000 needed to buy such a dog.

So then he wrote and illustrated "My Seizure Dog," now available on Amazon.com. He will have his first book-signing at a Fairfax County coffee shop Sunday, and there just might be a large crowd there.

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When Grant Edwards sees a heap of roller-skate wheels, a towel ring and a singing-toothbrush battery, he doesn't think garbage. He thinks invention.

Grant, 17 and a home-schooled senior who lives in south Charlotte, has had a knack for creating contraptions since he was a child.

But his most recent gadget took him to State University of New York Oswego for the 2011 Global Environmental Issues U.S (GENIUS) Olympiad competition in June, where he was awarded gold and a most-innovative prize for his self-sterilizing doorknob.

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The Journal News on Thursday, January 21, 2010, is reporting about a group of students who raised pennies for " Pennies for Peace", an organization funded by Greg Mortensen, author of the award winning book, "Three Cups of Tea," and helps fund educational programs for poor children in Pakistan and Afghanistan. To learn more, visit Pennies For Peace

Each day, Maddie and Ashley McFeeley wake up, get dressed, inject themselves with insulin, eat breakfast, check their blood sugar and head to school.

Since they were toddlers, the twins have learned to live with Type 1 diabetes. Ashley developed diabetes first, when she was 1 1/2, and because the two are identical twins, doctors closely monitored Maddie, who became diabetic at 2 1/2. Ashley described Type 1 diabetes as when "your pancreas doesn't produce the insulin that you need. It doesn't disintegrate the sugars as well as it would if you had the insulin."

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The Ladybug Foundation was founded by then 8 years old Hannah Taylor, in order the help the homeless

Since then, Hannah has spoken at over 200 events. Her inspiring message of care and helping has touched and motivated thousands of people to Make Change for hunger, homelessness and poverty. Hannah has spoken to groups as big as 16,000 and as small as 2.

As you can see Hannah is quite a remarkable lady. She has been nominated as one of the most "Transformational Canadians"

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A schoolboy who has donated all his toys and CDs to a children's ward since he was treated there has gone a stage further to raise £1,000.

Ayomide Soleye, 11, has made it his mission to help the Royal Free after he was treated there for a ruptured appendix when he was eight.

Since then he has given away all his old toys, DVDs and CDs to the sick children at the hospital and this year set himself the task of raising £500 to upgrade the play area.

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Jacob Head couldn't believe it when he saw a homeless man was standing on the side of the road one day asking for money. He begged his mom to help, but she explained he might spend the cash on the "wrong things" and suggested they come up with a way to help more than just this one man.

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In the middle of the denim drive (as it were) 9-year-old Erek Hansen from Curtice, Ohio read about the attempt in his National Geographic Kids Magazine and decided he'd have a go at collecting jeans himself. The weeks passed and by asking friends and family and spreading the word young Erek started collecting jeans. 100, 200, 300, 400...by the end of it Erek had collected over 1,600 pairs of jeans!!!

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Since September is National Childhood Cancer Awareness Month, I decided to elevate Alex's Lemonade Stand at the top of this lens.
This little girl has done so much for childhood cancer awareness and research, she deserves the Top Honor.

From the introduction at Alex's Lemonade Stand we can learn how the movement started and how it is
continuing despite the fact that Alex has unfortunately left us for a better world.

Alex was a Super Kid, she is an inspiration for thousands of people.

Most 13 year old girl's lives revolve around school, friends and the boy that sits across from them in math class they have a crush on. Life doesn't seem to go much further then the latest sale at the mall.

Leah Petty and Claire Miller are not like most 13-year-old girls. For the past three years, the Newburyport girls have been raising money for the children of Cambodia.

Petty, who lived in Singapore at the time visited, Cambodia for the first time and was touched by what she saw. To Read More About Girls Who Make A Difference

Bilaal Rajan is a gift to children everywhere. Between the ages of four and twelve, he has changed the world with his passion, love and inspiration, but most of all-his action. He saw dire need and took action to create real solutions for children who had no hope.

Who else would have believed that selling clementines, cookies and hand-made decorative plates in his neighbourhood in Canada could have had such an impact on children in other countries?
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Visit My KIds Toys Store where you'll find plenty of great suggestions for your birthday boy gifts.

A class project has turned six communications majors into blanket makers for 500 unknown soldiers.

They're marking this Veteran's Day completing the soft blankets with the help of community volunteers, including members of Cal State Fullerton's Phi Kappa Tau fraternity, Villa Park High School students and others.

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"More than one million children are homeless in the United States. To highlight the problem, eleven-year-old Zach Bonner walked hundreds of kilometers from his home city of Tampa, Florida to the U.S. Capitol, in Washington, DC. Along the way, Zach helped out at shelters for the homeless. In this week's installment of our series, Making a Difference."

Eleven-Year-Old Boy Walks to Help Homeless Children

A group of eight graders come together with the community and set a huge goal to reach $10,000.00 for providing an Indian village with clean water.Photo

Ryan Hreljac, at 6 years of age, was inspired by lessons learned in his grade 1 class about children who don't have clean water around the world.

Now, over 10 years later, his message has reached around the globe and he continues to work towards his dream of clean water for all through the work of the Ryan's Well Foundation.

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BROOKSVILLE - Jordan Baker and his friends are trying to bring joy to other people in an unlikely way: through pillowcases.

Jordan, 14, and his brother, Zachary, 12, are homeschooled. At age 10, Jordan became interested in government and started a civics group called Conservative Teens for America.

The students have taken on a project, making happy pillow cases, which they donate to the project called ConKerr Cancer: A Case for Smiles.Teens Sew 600 pillowcases

According to their website "Free The Children is the world's largest network of children helping children through education, with more than one million youth involved in our innovative education and development programs in 45 countries. Founded in 1995 by international child rights activist Craig Kielburger, Free The Children has a proven track record of success. The organization has received the World's Children's Prize for the Rights of the Child (also known as the Children's Nobel Prize), the Human Rights Award from the World Association of Non-Governmental Organizations, and has formed successful partnerships with leading school boards and Oprah's Angel Network."

Here is an example of what it is all about.
It is unbelievable what a group of young students can do when they join their efforts for a common cause. In this case, the students of broward Conty concentrated on raising money to build schools in Kenya for the non-profit Free the Children. And raised money they did,.It added up to $93,450.14 -- enough to build 11 schools in Kenya.

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There is nothing remarkable about the two-classroom school in Marialapa. It is only partially covered with tin roofing, only partially walled with palm thatch cover, only partially furnished with broken crooked benches and beaten blackboards, and led by two unqualified local teachers who each teach two classes at the same time. Yet, this is school for some 75+ children from the surrounding hills.
In Haiti, less than 10% of schools in our region are government schools, and all schools, whether government run or private, require students to pay a fee to attend. This poses a problem for many families who simply can't afford to pay for tuition and other associated costs.

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Broward County students raised enough money to build 11 schools thousands of miles away in Kenya.

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