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Being the Difference

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Being the Difference
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	Flesch-Kincaid grade level:	4.06

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	challenging words:		Fundraisers, passion, education, impressed, doing, month, just, difference, cause, able, easy, goal, raise, same, labor, become
	content words:		Tyler Page, Positive Action, Kids Helping Kids Leadership Academy, Helping Kids Leadership Academy, Kids Leadership Academy

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Being the Difference By Jody Williams

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¹     Tyler Page was just ten years old when he decided to make a big difference in the life of another child. Tyler was watching a popular talk show when he got the idea. The show was about children in Ghana, Africa. Tyler learned that children were being sold by their own parents. It is called child trafficking. Once the children were bought, they were not treated nicely. They were made to do hard labor. They were not able to have fun. They could only work.
 
²     Tyler put himself into the shoes of the children in Ghana. He could not imagine living that kind of life. He knew that he had to help them. Tyler had learned about Positive Action, a character education program, in school. Positive Action is helping others. It is doing nice things for your community. Tyler decided to use what he learned in school to help someone far away.
 
³     Tyler learned that for just twenty dollars a month he could keep one child from being bought and sold. Tyler set a goal to raise two hundred forty dollars. That would keep one child safe for a year. Tyler held a car wash to raise the money. The car wash was fun and easy. Tyler set a new goal. His new goal was to raise fifty thousand dollars. In just seventeen months, Tyler met his goal.

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