Ryan Hreljac: A First Grader’s Determination Leads to Drilling 100′s of Needed Wells

Friday, December 27th, 2013 by Charlie Butts

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How a nasty poke in the eye made it possible for the blind to see

Tuesday, November 12th, 2013 by Charlie Butts
How a nasty poke in the eye made it possible for the blind to see

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First Afghan Woman Olympian, competes under great duress

Friday, September 20th, 2013 by Charlie Butts
First Afghan Woman Olympian, competes under great duress

You would think that if you checked your Facebook page just before your big race in the Olympics that you would find all kinds of encouragement from your fellow countrymen… but what Tahmina Kohistani found was hate messages. As the first ever woman to compete in the Olympics from Afghanistan, she felt terrific pressure to “go […]

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Chaza Banda is Jumping Through Hoops to Get the Education She Deserves

Monday, August 12th, 2013 by Charlie Butts
Chaza Banda is Jumping Through Hoops to Get the Education She Deserves

After years of uncertainty, Chaza Banda’s lifelong dream to go to college is finally materializing.  Chaza’s father, an international student from Zambia sent for her in 2005.  Just nine months later he died, long before he could complete the process that would make the Banda’s permanent residents of the states. “Since that process was never […]

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Malala’s powerful speech at UN

Sunday, July 14th, 2013 by Charlie Butts

In a powerful and moving speech at the United Nations, Malala Yousafzai called on women and girls not to rely on men to provide them education, but to demand it themselves.  She said,“Malala Day is not my day, today is for… every girl who has stood for her rights.”  Showing signs of a nearly complete […]

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Massive youth-led effort underway to force action on Climate Change

Sunday, June 23rd, 2013 by Charlie Butts
Massive youth-led effort underway to force action on Climate Change

A mammoth youth-led movement is underway to ramp up the pressure on governments across organize the muscle of tens of thousands of young people to force governments to answer why they haven’t acted on climate change yet.  Five hundred students from more than one hundred countries are gathering in Istanbul, Turkey beginning Monday, June 24, 2013, to […]

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Kanhaiya Kumari, born in prison, bails out mother

Monday, June 3rd, 2013 by Charlie Butts

Kanhaiya Kumari was born in an Indian prison where he was held until he was six years old. When he was finally released he was placed in a juvenile home. He never stopped thinking of his mother, Vijaya. She was left in prison for a crime she said she never did. But since she couldn’t […]

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Sybil Ludington,16, rides through stormy night to warn, “The British are coming!”

Friday, May 24th, 2013 by Charlie Butts
Sybil Ludington,16, rides through stormy night to warn, “The British are coming!”

It was April 1777, one year after the Declaration of Independence was signed. Sybil Ludington had just turned sixteen.  She desperately wanted to do more to help her brand new country defeat the British.  Already she was spinning wool so her family didn’t have to buy cotton goods from the British.  For the same reason […]

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Kelvin Doe, 15, Makes Radio Station out of Trash

Friday, May 24th, 2013 by Charlie Butts

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Anjali Appadurai: Calls on UN Conference for Climate Change delegates to “Get it Done!”

Tuesday, April 23rd, 2013 by Charlie Butts

Few students could imagine speaking at a United Nations Conference on Climate Change with thousands of delegates from all over the world, but that is exactly what Anjali Appadurai, a student from a small college in Maine, did. And her speech bluntly called out the failures of the adult delegates to agree on meaningful solutions […]

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15 year-old girl takes on giant China government because she wants to go to school

Tuesday, April 23rd, 2013 by Charlie Butts
15 year-old girl takes on giant China government because she wants to go to school

A small girl in China is taking on the giant Chinese government because she wants to go to school.  Zhan Haite, 15, like most teens, lives where her parents live.  So when her parents moved to Shanghai for work, she moved too.  But currently in China, unless you are rich, you can’t go to high […]

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13 Year-Old Solves Big Problem With Slick Solution

Tuesday, April 23rd, 2013 by Charlie Butts

At thirteen, a Connecticut middle-school student, Cassandra Lin was upset to find that many people in her community couldn’t afford heating fuel. She was already bothered by the world-wide issue of global warming. Instead of thinking since she is just a kid it isn’t her problem, she made it her problem. And because she didn’t […]

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When Life Gives You Lemons, Make Lemonade

Tuesday, April 23rd, 2013 by Charlie Butts
When Life Gives You Lemons, Make Lemonade

Things can seem so simple through the eyes of a child. There is no grey, only black and white, right and wrong. It often makes adults, those who “know better,” simply shake their heads. But it’s also why children can surprise us and enlighten us, can accomplish things we wouldn’t have even dreamed of—like, say, […]

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17 yr-old is arrested trying to debate Cabinet Minister

Monday, July 23rd, 2012 by Charlie Butts
17 yr-old is arrested trying to debate Cabinet Minister

Seventeen year-old Bashir Mohamed, himself a Kenyan refugee, is upset with restrictive health policies a Canadian Cabinet official is imposing on refugees in that country. That cabinet minister, Jason Kenney, has made headlines recently for calling a Canadian Deputy Premier an A—hole as well as staging a fake swearing-in ceremony on TV.  Since Bashir couldn’t […]

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