By VIOLET SLOAN, age 10 A music school in New Haven, Connecticut, has been serving refugees in a unique way. Neighborhood Music School (NMS) created the “Welcome to the Neighborhood Fund.” The fund was built after a generous individual donated money...
By KAZ NEWMAN, age 12 The Biloxi-Chitimacha-Choctaw Tribe in the southern Louisiana town of Isle de Jean Charles is being forced to move to a safer area. Ninety-eight percent of homes there have been destroyed by the effects of climate change. Photo by Karen...
By ELEANOR HEDGES DUROY, age 13 Syrian swimmer Yusra Mardini, 18, hopes to be part of the small team of Refugee Olympic Athletes that will compete at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. PHOTO: ONU Brasil Imagine losing everything in a war that killed more than...
By EMILY BOYER, age 12 Protests spread across the nation in response to ICE’s raids on undocumented immigrants in January, 2016. PHOTO: Joe Brusky/Flickr More than 121 undocumented immigrants, mainly women and children, were arrested in raids coordinated by the Obama...
By MARISA WARMAN HIRSCHFIELD, age 11 Young people in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, work with the Arab American Association of New York to advocate for their communities. PHOTO: Arab American Association of NY On January 8, 2016, a 56-year-old Muslim woman names Rose Hamid...
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