17-year-old Rachel Rosenfield was touched by a newspaper report on Cambodian children who don’t have access to education. She went to work writing fundraising letters and selling t-shirts, and raised $52,000 in donations to open a school! Rosenfield was in Siem Reap province, Cambodia yesterday for the opening of the new R.S. Rosenfield School for 300 village students.
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"It makes me feel great to know that I was able to help so many people," the teen said when contacted by telephone. "Just seeing everyone so happy (today). It meant a lot to me."
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Its sad though, when so little (money) can help out so much. To the extremely rich, $52,000 is pocket change. There are purses and blinged out cellphones that cost upwards of a million and these "elite rich" don't bat an eye at such lavish purchases.
And yet with such a little amount, so much can be done.
Good for Rachel, sometimes you gotta try to change the world one town at a time.