2005 NetAid Global Action Award Honorees

Katie Reed (age 17 from Beaverton, Oregon) rallied fellow students to support the education of children in rural Matale, Uganda.  Katie's Sponsor-a-Student project will allow children orphaned by AIDS to continue their education, and helped raise resources to support the construction of Matale's future library.

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Annalise Blum and Katharine Kendrick (ages 18 from Berkeley and San Francisco, California) teamed up to raise awareness among students about the genocide taking place in Darfur, Sudan. Their green ribbon project, which spread to a dozen high schools, purchased more than 1,200 chickens for refugees from Darfur.

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Rob Stephens (age 18 from Winston-Salem, North Carolina) organized events from charity basketball games to jewelry-making workshops to support homes for AIDS orphans in Kenya.  He also led 20 students and teachers from his state on a study trip to Kenya, where they learned about the HIV/AIDS pandemic firsthand and visited the orphans.

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Mihiri Tillakaratne (age 18 from Mission Hills, California) raised funds to help a rural village in Sri Lanka build its first preschool and community center, and collected 20,000 pairs of eyeglasses for Sri Lankans who could not afford them. In the wake of the tsunami, she mobilized students and members of her religious community to collect money and supplies for emergency relief.

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