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HUDSON - Alex Galoza celebrated his eighth birthday Wednesday by helping classmates in need. As one of 230 students who collected pledges for the OCHO - Opportunity for Children to Help Others - service project at Northwest Elementary School, Alex helped make it possible for every student at Northwest to take home free books from last week's book fair. "It made my ... Read more »

When Kim Ninh first visited Vietnam in 1989 as a young graduate student, the country had recently undergone the doi moi, or economic reform policy, but there weren't any physical signs of change yet. Hanoi in April 1989 was a gray city, preternaturally quiet with bicycles as the main mode of transportation, and electricity limited to a few hours in the evening. Follow her as ... Read more »

Westwood - The Westwood Rotary Club and the Westwood Youth and family Services recently honored Caroline Bean, Kathryn Watson, Sarah Bredy, and Sophie Medina with the Recognize A Youth Award. The RAY Award gives the two organizations the opportunity to celebrate young people in the Westwood Community for their initiative and commitment to community service. Caroline and ... Read more »

NAPLES — Mike Stewart knows that getting a small cut in Haiti could mean the difference between life and death. Stewart, the country director for Naples-based nonprofit Hope for Haiti, said preventive care is a necessity for residents who might not have easy access to a doctor or a hospital. "Prevention saves so much in the long run," he said. "A minor cut that is ... Read more »

Go on a tour of the animation studio in Nairobi and learn how Tinga Tinga Tales is created.

Sing along with Monkey and all of his friends as you watch the opening sequence to the animated series Tinga Tinga Tales.

Did you know that if a child doesn't have the ability to sit still for a few minutes or have the ability to write a few letters of their own name, they have a four times greater chance in dropping out of school? Watch James Cleveland, President of Jumpstart, explain what our children need to succeed in school today.

This year alone, Jumpstart volunteers are serving more than one million hours with 13,000 preschool children in more than 60 communities across America. Recently, Jumpstart released this video to provide an insider's view of how the organization functions on a daily basis.

BRONXVILLE, N.Y. — At 25 cents a job, or more, the children of Bronxville are laboring at home, some for the first time: cleaning their rooms, unloading the dishwasher, replacing toilet paper, pulling weeds. At the Bronxville School, Fritz Pingel, 8, and his second-grade classmates write about the chores they do to earn money for storybooks and supplies for pupils in ... Read more »

LitWorld's mission grew from the work of Pam Allyn's other organization, LitLife, which has been working to improve schools and learning practices on a national level since 2002, and her Books for Boys initiative, which has been transforming the lives of at-risk youth living in Dobbs Ferry's residential treatment center and school, The Children's Village, since 1999. Watch ... Read more »