Posted 10:00 PM 3/26/2013
Selles - Poverty is a serious problem on the Tohono O'odham Nation impacting hundreds of kids.
Nearly half the population lives below the poverty line and fewer than half complete high school.
"Back then I didn't really think of education much," says 44 year-old Rose Ortega.
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Posted 11:19 PM 3/21/2013 by Kristi Tedesco
TUCSON - The Girl Scouts are famous for Do-Si-Dos, Samoas and Thin Mints. Troop 2969 is Paying it Forward using some of the money from cookie sales to help others.
Emma Small is one of them.
"Our Gift of Caring project is making care packages for the Arizona School for the Deaf and (More) • Video (1)
Posted 11:04 PM 3/18/2013
TUCSON - A year and a half ago, Addie Rerecich was saved. After 93 days on a lung bypass machine, Addie got a double lung transplant. Her own lungs, destroyed by a vicious staph infection. Addie also suffered a stroke. Today, Addie is 13 years old and a much different girl. A teenage, Pink Ninja. (More) • Video (1)
Posted 10:52 PM 3/13/2013 by Kristi Tedesco
PHOENIX - A bill that would put Epi Pens in every school, for any child with an anaphylactic reaction, has cleared two Senate committees in Phoenix. The next stop is a house committee.
Right now, in the Tucson Unified School District, nurses keep a vial of epinephrine. When a child goes (More) • Video (1)
Posted 3:26 PM 3/12/2013
Click here for more information on this weekend's Food and Allergy Walk.
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Posted 9:51 PM 3/6/2013
TUCSON - Some of Kristi's Kids are paying it forward including one determined teenager. Haley Roughton knows helping others is a personal achievement."She got beat on the head and she has a big bump right here where the bone was dislocated." Haley is taking care of a horse named (More) • Video (1)
Posted 9:50 PM 3/4/2013
ORACLE - Do you remember Kristi's Kid Kristine Hodgkinson? She is the Tucson amputee with ties to Winter that famous dolphin that lost her tail. Kristine has an update and proof that there are no limits with Kristi's Kids.
Kristine will tell you only the sky's the limit. We were there last (More) • Video (1)
Posted 8:59 PM 2/28/2013 by Kristi Tedesco
12-year-old David is one of the most laid back kids in Tucson. He's shy, with a dry sense of humor. He likes the color red and enjoys math in school. David also likes basketball and football.
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ORO VALLEY - Kevin B. Howard Architects is the first Kristi's Kids "Lifesaver" of the year. The company is donating all of the proceeds, from a private event raffle, to our drowning prevention campaign.
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Posted 4:17 PM 2/26/2013
The event will take place at the Kevin Howard Architects firm Thursday. All the proceeds will benefit Kristi's Kids drowning prevention campaign.
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