Kids react with kindness toward suffering in Japan
ATLANTA - With tsunami relief on their minds, kids in Dallas squeezed the aid from lemons. In an hour, they raised more than $1,000, during a lemonade fundraiser for Japan.
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In Atlanta, kindergartner Tuesday Muse saw the destruction on television. Like kids all over, she's trying to make sense of the unthinkable.
"It really makes me want to help those people," Muse said. She was trying to figure out how she could help when it dawned on her, "I'm a good artist."
Her mom helped her sell all her old artwork - some to neighbors, the rest on Ebay. So far she's raised over $2,500. Then she helped recruit 40 of her friends to paint.
Asked to explain her inspiration, Tuesday said, "This dude somewhere in New York City - he said if someone would paint him a picture - he would give $1,000 for tsunami relief."
Tuesday's mother says Japan's calamity hits home for kids everywhere. "They're better able to put themselves in other people's shoes than adults are," Keely Muse said. "They can empathize."
Lemons to Aid, kids helping others
Kids outside of America are also pitching in. In Haiti, 14-year-olds Joseph and Jeffrey are still struggling, and living in tents since last year's earthquake.
In their despair, they link to Japan with plastic scraps that they've made into bracelets. Selling them for $10 apiece, they've raised $200 so far to help Japan.
Like all of these kids, they're doing whatever they can to send hope to Japan.
