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The Daily Points of Light

October 17, 2012

Cyndie Shepard founded Creating the Future, a program that offers direct academic tutoring in elementary, middle and high schools that lack funding, staffing and energy, to improve the achievement

October 16, 2012

A former foster child herself, Helen Ramagalia founded Foster SuperStars to serve as a mentoring program for foster children in her community.

October 15, 2012

Kyle Pease’s mission is to help improve the lives of disabled youth through sport. Diagnosed with cerebral palsy at an early age, he never let illness slow him down.

October 12, 2012

The Mississippi Boy choir is a volunteer-driven organization whose mission is to enhance young men’s educations, character and social lives through song.

October 10, 2012

Bullying is no longer about the strong picking on the weak. Bullying has been replaced by a 24/7 online monster - cyber bullying.

October 9, 2012

More than 300 million people around the world need eye care but are unable to afford it. A large majority are students who are hamstrung in the classroom because they can’t see.

October 8, 2012

Jill Kirkwood came to Safe Haven Ministries looking to get involved in any way she could to help end domestic abuse.

October 5, 2012

Jimmy Willerton, a 14-year-old Eagle Scout, saw first-hand the destruction of a natural disaster on May 22, 2011, when an F5 tornado destroyed his hometown of Joplin, Mo.

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