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Amazing Kid: Zach Bonner

by Honey Berk, Posted Dec 10th 2010 10:30AM

Amazing Kid Zach Bonner raised money for homeless kids this year by walking coast-to-coast. Credit: Laurie Bonner
Amazing Kid: Zach Bonner Age: 13 Grade: 7th Home Town: Valrico, Fla. School: K12 Favorite Ice Cream: Mint Chocolate Chip ..."If you're a kid and you want to help, just do it -- take your idea and run with it," Zach says.
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Amazing Dad: Randy Christensen

by Elizabeth Humphrey, Posted Jun 20th 2010 5:00PM

Randy Christensen, medical director for the Crews'n Healthmobile, which provides medical services to homeless and at-risk youth. Credit: Troy Aossey, Phoenix Children's Hospital
Amazing Dad: Randy Christensen, M.D., a pediatrician at Phoenix ...
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Florida Boy Takes 13 Million Steps Across America to Combat Homelessness

by Elizabeth Humphrey, Posted May 3rd 2010 12:00PM

Zach Bonner strides the final mile in Atlanta in 2008, on one of his walks to bring awareness to the plight of homeless youth. Credit: Laurie Bonner
Have you ever walked a mile in someone else's shoes? OK, how about 2,478 miles? Zach Bonner, 12, ...
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Homeless Kids' Film 'Sweet Lemonade' Continues to Wow

by Elizabeth Humphrey, Posted Apr 12th 2010 3:00PM

Have you ever told your kids, "When life hands you lemons, make lemonade?" Some Sacramento homeless children have taken that advice, and turned the old saying into a film that keeps impressing area film festival audiences. According to the ...
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Virgin Mobile asks kids to strip for charity

by Sandy Maple, Posted Jul 16th 2008 11:02AM

It guess it sounded like a good idea on paper: a national campaign to collect clothing donations for homeless youth featuring non-homeless, fully-clothed youth. Except for the part where the clothed youth are supposed to take their clothes off. ...
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10-year-old walks 280 miles for homeless kids

by Sandy Maple, Posted Nov 29th 2007 12:05PM

In 1951, Mildred Norman Ryder vowed to "remain a wanderer until mankind has learned the way of peace, walking until given shelter and fasting until given food." As part of her personal pilgrimage for peace, she walked from coast to coast in North ...
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