Over the past 10 years, 25,000 struggling students from poverty-stricken schools have gotten guidance, encouragement and advice from volunteer mentors. And they haven't met face-to-face even once.
Kids in South Africa get life advice thanks to a non-profit that gives them computers and mentors.
When he lost his second parent to HIV/AIDS seven years ago, Ayanda Buthelezi's future seemed bleak.
By the time Leikia Reynolds was 12 years old, her life was heading down the wrong path. Her grandparents took her in when she was 11 months old. She didn't know her mother, and her father was serving a 16-year prison sentence.
A Pennsylvania high school has scrapped a mentoring program, which allowed students to be taught by instructors of their same race for a few minutes each day, following a storm of criticism over the initiative.
A campaign to promote new businesses and create jobs, bringing together government agencies and businesses such as Intel and IBM, was launched Monday by the Obama administration.
A school in Pennsylvania is separating kids by race. It is part of a mentoring program for black kids.
For the past two years, Dan Buettner has teamed with psychologists and scientists to seek out the world's happiest people for his new book, "Thrive: Finding Happiness the Blue Zones Way."
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