Student helps paint bright future for African village.(The Goodness Of America)(Brief Article)

Christina Morin of Fredericksburg, Virginia, developed two passionate desires as a teenager--to study anthropology and to help the less fortunate people of the world. While still a junior in high school, Christina had the opportunity to travel to Kenya with her family and spend four days among the Samburu tribe. Kenya had been ravaged by a two-year-long drought, the Samburu's cattle had died, and the people were starving. The proprietors of the lodge where the Morin family was staying distributed rations of flour and sugar to the Samburu, and Christina readily helped with that act of benevolence.

Always eager to do more, Christina began teaching the children to paint, and she was astounded by their results. As she told a writer for the Fredericksburg Free Lance-Star, "[The children] came up with amazing drawings of animals, and they'd never seen a paintbrush before." Christina then thought of an innovative way to help the villagers out of their dilemma: she would sell the children's artwork back in America!

To give the ...