Me to We: Canadian kids help tsunami victims

Hockey help
My son's hockey team raised money during the two hockey games they had during the past weekend. We sold 50/50 and also did a bottle drive. Tonight at the rink, we invited the chaplain from CFB Greenwood to present the cheque and a picture was taken for the local newspaper.

Also on Friday, my son and his classmates (Grade 5) will be bringing baked
goods at school to sell to the kids in the school.

Hélène Péloquin, Kingston, N.S.

A giving game
Ryan started a fundraiser at his school titled "Donate one game and feed a family." His idea is to have all the kids in his school donate one video game to the fund. Ryan will then sell the games to our local video game store -- Ice Man, who is so great to participate. Ryan will then donate all proceeds to The Red Cross. This fundraiser will be going on for the entire week and will be a part of a bigger fundraiser that is taking place at school, called the "Blue ribbon campaign."

Ryan has lots of big plans for the upcoming year, he now knows how great it feels to do this and he now wants to participate in other fundraisers happening.

I can not tell you how happy this makes me, first of all because he is learning the importance of charity and helping others, but he's also giving up something pretty important to him (anyone who has an 8 year old boy can appreciate what I'm saying -- the Gameboy and Sony Playstation are their pride and joy) and when asked why he wanted to donate the video games he said it was because here he had all these great toys and games and all those people don't even have food or a home or even parents.

I could really learn a lot from my son, and I think we don't give our kids enough credit sometimes. When given the opportunity, they can do things only we could imagine, they have the most pure and noble hearts but most of all ,we need to remind them of what huge changes even them...little them...can make in somebody's life.

Kristy MacCormack