SLIDESHOW: Top 11 Kids Who Made A Difference In 2011

Wednesday, December 7, 2011 SLIDESHOW: Top 11 Kids Who Made A Difference In 2011 As world leaders struggled in 2011 to save a famine-struck Africa, end the global water crisis and continue to research cures for devastating cancers, a host of young activists also stepped up. As young as 7, these young people who want to make a difference offered their insight, experience and commitment to resolving these plaguing issues. Meet 11 such budding activists who may just inspire you to help make this world a better place. What Adele Is Requiring Fans To Do For Free Tickets Reddit Raises $31,000 In Hours For Boy's Bone Marrow Transplant PayPal Apologizes After Backlash For Freezing Donation Fund For Kids Should Vets Have To Endure Typical Wait Times For PTSD Treatment? Firefighters Let House Burn Because Couple Didn't Pay Protection Fee BLOG POSTS SPC Tanangachi Mfuni: The 9/11 Of Their Generation On the 70th anniversary of Pearl Harbor, I have a nagging thought that while dates with infamy are tattooed to the soul of the generation which experiences them, they lose their sacredness with each new generation. Kristin Lindsey: Welcome to the World We must do better for the next billion. What happens to them has meaning for all of us. And because they are children, it is up to us to fulfill that promise. Rev. Lennox Yearwood: "People Power" -  A New Song for the Climate Justice Movement "People Power" is a new song written and sung by artists across the African continent in collaboration with the global Hip Hop community. The song tells the story of climate impacts across Africa, but it is also a call to action. Jeffrey Hollender: What the World Needs Now: Social Innovation Whatever we don't like about the world we live in, whatever doesn't work the way we think it should, has, believe it or not, been designed to work pretty much exactly that way. Charles Lyons: What Children Can Teach Us About HIV The news that a 13-year-old-boy has been banned from attending a school in Pennsylvania because he is HIV-positive brought back a flood of memories from an earlier and darker time in the history of the AIDS pandemic.

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