May 2008: YouthGive LA Guide to Giving features two pages on Marie Da Silva and the Jacaranda school, seen through the eyes of children and teenagers.
"The YouthGive idea is simple, and guided by the clarity of an eight-year-old. Philanthropy is not just for grown-ups, celebrities and billionaires. Kids have imaginative spirits and want to help others. Families need tools to cultivate and tap the giving gene we all share. The internet shrinks the world, creating new and powerful opportunities for local and global connection." In their newly launched YouthGive LA Guide to Giving, YouthGive.org founders Dan Siegel and Jenny Yancey have put together 50 stories written by 125 young people who show us a different portrait of Los Angeles: a city rich in nonprofit organizations and caring, generous, dedicated individuals.

The article on Marie and the Jacaranda school (written by 13-year-old Satchel Yancey-Siegel) quotes many of the Jacaranda Foundation's supporters, including 14-year-old Sam Steinberger who donated money to the Foundation and sent three huge boxes of clothes to the Jacaranda students (click here for pictures of the exhibition featured in Los Angeles about Sam's unexpected exchange with the Jacaranda school). Also quoted, Maaike, who works for Edukans, a national organization in the Netherlands which encourages children to donate toys and gifts to their peers in Africa (click here for pictures of the shoe boxes filled wih presents that were given to the Jacaranda school children).

Thank you to Dan Siegel, Jenny Yancey, their son Satchel and the whole YouthGive.org team for such a beautiful, clear and lively article that will indeed encourage more and more children and their parents to get in touch with us and the students of the Jacaranda school!