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Mar 14, 2010

"Great things are done by a series of small things brought together." --Vincent Van Gogh

US Kids Skype With Afghan Kids

In 2005, teenager Kyleigh Kuhn met 50 students studying beneath a tent north of Kabul, Afghanistan. Distraught by the landmines and environmental hazards she saw nearby, Kuhn return home and began collecting pennies to raise funds for a safer environment and better school for the area's children. Since then, this small project has become the Roots of Peace Penny Campaign, and has removed landmines and boosted school attendance to 250 boys and girls. In honor of the Inaugural National Day of Community Service and Remembrance of September 11, 2009, American students gathered at the Roots of Peace World Headquarters in Northern California for a video conference call with their Afghan student peers.