Featured Alumni
Name:Charlie Coons
Age: 12
State: CA
Year Awarded: 2009
Charlie makes and distributes blankets to orphans and needy children around the world in order to touch their lives, remind them that they have not been forgotten and give them hope.
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Message Board Monitor @ DoSomething
| Organization: | DoSomething.org (us) |
| Date: |
10/31/09 to 01/31/10 |
| Location: |
New York, NY 10003 |
| Contact Name: | george weiner, CTO |
| Contact Email: | george@dosomething.org |
| Contact Phone: | 212-254-2390 x230 |
| Website: | http://www.dosomething.org/forum |
Last updated by rubyallen on Thu, 10/29/2009 - 23:24.
Every day I look around and see people throwing their lives away, particularly women, we often feel as though because we didn’t do it then, than its too late to do it n. For example I had a baby in high school , stopped playing sports and dropped out of school for a short period of time. I began to feel as though it was too late and I had screwed up my life but it wasn’t and I proved my self wrong by finishing high school and enrolling in college. A lot of times we also feel as though we have o deal with poverty and circumstances and there’s nothing we can do about it.
Last updated by MelanieCurrin90 on Thu, 10/29/2009 - 20:39.
Im trying to resolve issues for a country that is often unnoticed. El Salvador is currently a third world country suffering from such issues as hunger, lack of education, poverty,lack of medical care and also having young children being recruited into the guerrillas which is a non political group of people who kill. Im trying to give their next generation a better opportunity.
Last updated by Jen9754 on Tue, 10/27/2009 - 22:16.
I want to provide homemade greeting cards for residents in nursing homes because they don't recieve much mail. I want to try and brighten their day with a thoughtful card.

via The Guardian
Our Youth directed this! Had a fun time doing this! A remake of the famous scene! www.getoutthebox.org
Last updated by donapalmer2 on Mon, 10/26/2009 - 18:27.
We, the Humanitarian and Environmental Club at Franklin Academy High School, hold strong to the belief that education has the power, and indeed is the only entity possessing the power, to reconstruct the lives of those living in the Kono District of Sierra Leon, Africa. This area has been devastated by the conflict over diamonds, and the situation was such that schools were destroyed and children roamed the streets, which made them easily recruited as soldiers.
Last updated by TeaRosic on Sun, 10/25/2009 - 16:27.
Students from Glenforest Secondary School in Mississauga have united in search of a common goal: to raise community awareness for a life-threatening parasitic disease known as Malaria. Malaria kills over 3,000 African children each day, yet this disease, if identified and treated early enough, can be cured.
In partnership with the Toronto General & Western Hospital Foundation, our goal is to raise $10,000 for malaria research by hosting a charity dinner gala on November 13th 2009.
Last updated by AlexBoles on Sat, 10/24/2009 - 15:21.
The problem the Unwritten Letters Project is trying to solve is silence. People have silenced themselves and have been silenced for various reasons, and now is their chance to finally come out with it all and find their voices! People are submitting letters about life, death, sexuality, love, pain and much, much more. It's amazing how many lives can be changed when you give them a chance to get their voices heard across the world. The community I am reaching spreads throughout the world.