Taybears

Taylor Crabtree has her own successful business. However, she isn´t doing it to get rich. She is doing it to help others. She and her friends make hairclips to sell. All the money is used to buy teddy bears for kids with cancer. You can help out by visiting her page and buying a hairclip with your parent´s permission. Her page is here: Taybears

Helping the Homeless

Many children today are very worried about children who do not have homes of their own. These children are just like you. They want to go to school, curl up in a warm bed and have toys and friends. It can be very hard to go to school when you don´t have a home and it can also be very hard to feel safe and hopeful. Visit these pages to find out what some children are doing to help:

Help the Homeless HUD has a short page with suggestions for ways children-even preschoolers-can help.

Warming Families Work together with your family to make quilts for homeless families. Keep another family as warm as you are. This site shows you how to make an easy and inexpensive quilt.

Kids Can Make a Difference Find out what you can do to help feed the hungry. Many homeless children are also hungry and this is a good place for kids to help. This has some unusual suggestions.

Serve Your Neighbors

Service projects don´t have to be fancy. There are people right in your own neighborhood who need your help. Is there an older person who needs help taking out the trash or running errands? Does a busy mom need someone to read to her children? Does a child need a tutor? Ask your parents to help you choose someone who could use a few hours of help every week. You might even make a new friend!

Kids Who Help the Homeless

Find out how children are helping children who need homes.

AfterShare is an especially interesting group because the children who volunteer here used to be homeless themselves. Now they are helping other kids. You can read what it is like to be a homeless child, find ways to help and see what these children are doing.

Kids Helping Kids Page: Katie became worried about homeless children after seeing them in New York while attending a play. She wants people to send her ideas about how people can help. Katie is nine years old.

Kids Cheering Kids was started by a five-year-old boy with the help of his mother. He was sad that all kids weren´t as lucky as he was and he thought kids should help each other. One of their activities is to have weekly activities with homeless children.