By Orik Ehren, age 13 All over the world the schools of hundreds of millions of students are closed due to the coronavirus. Their educations have been moved online or, in many cases, suspended entirely. Keeping students away from school does positively contribute to social distancing, which decreases the spread of COVID-19, but might …
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By Amedeo Max Bettauer, age 10 and IndyKids staff Tod Robbins, the founder of Utah Valley Mutual Aid, received a call from a woman speaking Spanish, a language he was rusty in and hadn’t practiced since college. But he knew from her voice that she was desperate. So he called Cesar, a Spanish-speaking volunteer within …
By Victor, age 12 Every week, my family would go to the movies. We watched Sharknado 1, 2 and 3. We used to get popcorn, nacho cheese chips and Coke slushies. It was exciting, something I looked forward to. But two years ago, everything changed. One day, after my dad picked me and my little …
Victor in many ways is just like any other 11-year-old boy, he loves playing video games and going outside, but there’s one big difference— For the past two years he has been separated from his father, after he was arrested by immigration officials at their home one day after school. Victor shares his story with …
Get to know 11-year-old Jithendra from Chennai, India!
Learn a bit about 9-year-old Andon and his home country of Sweden.
Currently, there are about 1.6 million homeless kids in the United States—an all-time high—according to the National Center on Family Homelessness.
Kid journalists in India are giving voice to their communities by reporting on local issues in their very own newspaper, Balaknama.
Virtually every day in the summer, kids as young as seven work on tobacco farms from sun up to sun set in the United States.
Find out a little bit about Mimi and her home country of Switzerland.
