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Nov 26, 2008 6:37 am US/Mountain

Fort Collins Students Learn To Help Impoverished

Reporting
Mike Hooker
FORT COLLINS, Colo. (CBS4) ― Some elementary school students in Fort Collins have been learning about helping people in impoverished countries as part of an original O-Ambassadors club. The clubs are supported by Oprah Winfrey's Angel Network and a group called Free the Children.

"We're trying to help the world be a better place and trying to help other people live a better life," said Natalie Matlock, a second grader at Shepardson Elementary School.

"Most of the schools or houses and villages don't have clean water that they can go to, they can just get right there," said Eric Kennedy, a sixth grader. "They have to walk like four or five miles to get water, but it could be dirty too."

The students went out into the community to speak publically about world poverty and raised $5,000.

"One of the things that $5,000 could do would be to buy a clean well of water for a village and it could also do a lot of little things," said Evan Bode, a fifth grader. "So it just made us feel really good that we had helped a lot of people."

The O-Ambassadors sent the school a motivational speaker to teach the whole school that no one is too small to make a difference.

The program started last year and there are nearly 2,000 clubs in the United States and Canada.

Additional Resources:

oambassadors.org

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