13-Year-Old Raises Money for School Art Supplies

Here is a lesson for those of means. Everyone and Anyone can make their community better. If a teenager can make a difference then so should those who are powerful, wealthy, and famous. And you don't need government to mandate such actions. If Americans are dying in Afghanistan for us, then we are obligated to make sacrifices for our neighbors. And you don't have to give up your life to do it:

"I wanted to spread the enjoyment of art," Tae Tae said. "And the homeless kids didn't really have the utilities to paint or express themselves through art," Tae Tae told CBS News correspondent Kelly Cobiella.

Tae Tae got the idea last year after her school cut art supplies from the budget. Tae Tae worried that kids who could not afford their own supplies would be left out. So she traded the brush for a pen and started writing letters to big companies asking for help. She wrote 50 letters in all, and heard back from 45.

Donations flooded in from some of the biggest art and office supply companies in the country.