Noreen Freeland tells her kids to "pay it forward".
Almost two years ago, Freeland started a youth group for her neighborhood kids on South Hartley Street in York. This year her kids raised money to help bring Christmas to their peers in the York County Youth Development Center who won't be in a home of their own this Christmas.
Freeland says, "The unique thing that the kids are doing is that some of these kids will be getting few items themselves for Christmas... and this is their way they pay it forward to others...in the community who won't be able to go home for the holidays"
Perhaps the Hartley Street Youth Group can provide training sessions to the CEO's of major U.S. corporations who are seeking taxpayer bailouts while engineering their own bonuses. And maybe bring in the AIG execs in who recently gave themselves huge retention bonuses with taxpayer money for running the company into the ground.
Maybe they can visit Bernard L. Madoff in prison and teach him that a decade old multi-billion dollar ponzi scheme that has bankrupt charities and destroyed savings is self destructive.
Paying forward: People investing in a positive future of individuals who share their community.
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