A Round of Applause for These Young Students
So much of what we hear about the youth of today is negative. This story demonstrates the positive side most of us recognize exists.
Person of the Week:Ana Slavin and Nick Anderson
While some teens might use the Internet to catch up with their friends, Nick Anderson and Ana Slavin took a look at social networking Web sites and realized they were teeming with potenital young donors for a charitable cause.
The Massachusetts teens decided to raise funds for the plight in Darfur and challenged other teens across the country to pitch in through Facebook and MySpace.
“I think our generation has a general willingness to be activists and to go out and do good things,” Slavin said. “But we, as teenagers, have always been kind of overlooked, and to be given this kind of empowerment the students and teenagers have really just taken off with it.”
Slavin and Anderson have become so notable they were invited to Capitol Hill this week to speak out on the crisis.
The success these young Americans achieved is revealed in the article. It would be nice to think that when they appeared before Congress a few legislators took notes on hard work and perseverance.
Congrats you guys..you make America proud.
Written by Sue
