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According to this article, American school children have raised and donated more money for Katrina relief than many major corporations. RandomKid, a non-profit, grassroots children's group has been tracking donations and announced that the total has exceeded ten million dollars -- so far. They put a lot of emphasis on the "so far", by the way, because the children of America are not done yet.Only five corporations have donated more than the kids: Wal-mart, Federal Home Loan Bank of Cincinnati, Exxon, Freddie Mac, and BP Amoco. I'm willing to bet, however, that Wal-mart's allowance is a little bigger than most of these kids. Even so, Wal-mart has only contributed seventeen million, less than double what the kids gave, despite earning over $11 billion in profits last year. It's amazing, really, the power that children have, and something like this can make it clear to them just how big a difference they can make in the world without a whole lot of effort. The mission statement of RandomKid says it well: "To empower kids to realize the infinite value of who they are right now and their unique power to make the world a better place because of it."
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8-26-2006 @ 8:08PM
ann adams said...The girls all pitched in through their schools and the church (apart from what we did as a family). It's never too young to learn compassion and empathy.
They went through all their warm weather clothing and we sent bags through a friend in the NAACP. We bought bottled water through Lowe's to ship.
It wasn't a lot but they wanted to do it without any arm twisting from me.
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8-27-2006 @ 12:44PM
shannon said...this is our youth and aren't they amazing?!?!
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