Learning from the little ones to make the world a better place: 2015 was a year full of stories of boys and girls, of boys and girls who have shown selflessness, courage, intelligence, creativity and foresight, offering all of us adults some very precious lessons of life and solidarity.
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Learn from the little ones to make the world a better place: 2015 was a year full of stories of boys and girls, of boys and girls who have shown selflessness, courage, intelligence, creativity and foresight, offering all of us adults some very precious lessons of life and solidarity.
And 2016 could really be a better year if we all tried to be a little bit like Jasuel, Katie, Hannah, Robert or Xie Xu, just to name a few of the names of the young, often very young protagonists of some of the valuable stories. and meaning we've been telling you over the past twelve months. Stories that speak of respect and love, towards the environment and other human beings.
Here then 10 experiences not to be forgotten and from which to take an example to build, all together, a brighter future:
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Hannah Herbst, at the age of 15, invents a low-cost device to extract energy from the oceans
Only 15 years Hannah fall became the best young scientist in the United States. She has just won the first prize of the Discovery Education 3M Young Scientists Challange. His invention makes it possible to extract energy from the oceans with a low-cost device.
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The Dominican child who builds toy cars and toys with recycled materials
Children are increasingly setting a good example for adults. Jasuel Rivera is a 12 year old boy living in the Dominican Republic. Every day he amazes friends and family with his he ability build toys starting from recycled materials.
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3) At 13, he raises a million dollars to help his Brooklyn school
Last week, the school principal Mott Hall Bridges Academy she took the stage in front of her 195 students and made an announcement: a fundraiser to bring the students of Brooklyn to Harvard, a useful trip for those like them who have never left a neighborhood characterized by a high crime rate. One way to show them that the alternative to crime is culture. And it is thanks to one of his students that his fundraising exceeded a million dollars in a few days.
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Katie Stagliano: the little girl who grows giant cabbages to feed the needy
Coltivare giant cabbages per feed the needy with a real one social garden. The beautiful initiative of Katie Stagliano, now 16, started a few years ago with a gardening project to do as a school assignment.
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Xie Xu, the boy who has been accompanying his disabled friend to school for 3 years carrying him on his shoulder
A truly touching story that makes us understand how much each of us could be of help to others, if only he wanted to. Xie Xu is an 18 year old Chinese boy who for 3 years he has been accompanying his disabled friend Zhang Chi to school.
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Xiuhtezcatl Roske-Martinez, the 14-year-old boy who wants to change the world
Xiuhtezcatl Roske-Martinez he is only 14 years old but he is already working to change the world. He lives in Colorado and is the director of Earth Guardians, a non-profit association that encourages young people to come together to engage in environmental activism. Now a video tells his story.
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Robert Lee, the guy who collects leftover food from restaurants and gives it to the homeless
Why waste the leftover food in the restaurants? A great solution would be to donate it to homelesswhen it is still perfectly edible. She thought about it Robert Lee, a 24-year-old from New York who has decided to take action to make a difference in the world.
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Oliver, the 6-year-old boy who cultivates gardens and raises funds for people in need
Coltivare vegetable gardens in the city to self-produce food and raise funds for people in need. Here is the mission of Oliver, who started realizing his projects four years ago, when he was only 6 years old.
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Children find a way to fight world hunger in less than 2 minutes
If only the world thought like two children sitting at a kitchen table, there would no longer be world hunger. Why them they know how to share in an innate way. This is what a social experiment of the association reveals Action Against Hunger.
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The children who are suing Obama for climate change
Children and young people against Obama for climate changes: the President of the USA will have to face one cause moved against him by 21 young people aged between 8 and 19 years. The activists filed an official request with the Oregon District Court to implement a national plan is preferably used for reduction of atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide to 350 ppm by 2100.
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Lisa Vagnozzi
