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Calling all kids!
Want to be on TV and help the environment?

"Change the World Kids" and "Kids for a Cooler Planet" and are planning to film a public service announcement for TV to promote reusable shopping bags and reduce the environmental problems with disposable plastic and paper shopping bags.

We have teamed up with a professional director to produce a TV commercial that will feature hundreds of kids of all ages from across the Upper Valley carrying reusable bags and reminding adults to "bring their own bag!" The large group shot is scheduled to be filmed on Saturday, May 17 from 10 AM to 12 PM, check-in beginning at 9:30, at the Dartmouth Rugby field on Reservoir Rd, across from the Ray Elementary School in Hanover NH. Parking is at the elementary school. Any child is welcome to be part of this exciting event.

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It will be fun and easy! Just bring your smile and a signed parent/guardian permission form - available at: http://www.kidsforacoolerplanet.com/attention.html

Wear a t-shirt and shorts/pants. No clothing with writing on it. The rain date is Sunday, May 18 from 1-3 PM, check in at 12:30PM.

Did you know that 20,000 "green bags" will be arriving in the summer as a result of the response from conservation-minded businesses, non-profit organziations and individuals in greater Woodstock community! Definitely cool!!!

The Prudential Spirit of Community Awards:

Change the World Kid Zoe Isaacs is named Vermont's top high school youth volunteer for 2008 by The Prudential Spirit of Community Awards (www.prudential.com/spirit), a nationwide program honoring young people for outstanding acts of volunteerism. The awards program is conducted by Prudential Financial in partnership with the National Association of Secondary School Principals (www.principals.org/prudential).

Zoe will receive $1,000, an engraved silver medallion, and an all-expense-paid trip in early May to Washington, D.C., where she will join the top two honorees - one middle level and one high school youth - from each of the other states and the District of Columbia for several days of national recognition events. Ten of them will be named America's top youth volunteers for 2008 at that time.

Zoe is spearheading the development of a youth program in Rwanda (Teens Connecting Continents) that is working to provide orphans and other impoverished children with education, health care, HIV/AIDS testing, and soccer equipment, coaches and facilities. While visiting her brother, an aid worker in Rwanda, Zoe saw how the simple gift of a soccer ball could bring joy and passion to desperate youth. "Despite overwhelming sadness and devastation, I saw hope in the easy smiles of countless orphans," said Zoe. "There existed possibility, even among shacks and shanties riddled with disease and starvation."

Soon after, Zoe enlisted the help of Change the World Kids. During the past year, we have provided school fees and pens for children, hired a program coordinator, purchased soccer jerseys, and raised funds to renovate a soccer stadium. As thousands of young Rwandans are drawn from miles around by the attraction of soccer games, they also will be given educational opportunities and HIV testing. Zoe has overseen the raising of $7,500 in funds for the program, and devotes much of her time to accounting, public relations and community outreach activities. "As citizens of the Western world, we have the resources to help," she said. "We cannot afford to sit by and watch as problems of poverty and disease escalate."

AND INCREDIBLY….

In 2006 Change the World Kid Phebe Meyers was named the Vermont top high school youth volunteer and received the Prudential Spirit of Community Award! Phebe was honored for organizing and founding the amazing group Change the World Kids.

In 2007 Change the World Kid Maya Robinson was the named the Vermont top high school youth volunteer and received the Prudential Spirit of Community Award! Following a year in India as a Rotary International Exchange Student, Maya created an exhibit of photos taken by 20 international exchange students over the past 35 years to promote greater understanding of foreign cultures and the interconnectedness of people around the world.

HOW COOL IS THIS!

Where else in the media? Recently we were featured in Weekly Reader Magazine and the Reader's Spotlight of Oct/Nov 2007 issue of KEWL.