Website. You can take the pledge by icking on this button here. You are ledgering as you can read here, it says i pledge not to drive distracted because it endangers myself and those around me. I will never text and drive, i will always speak out when i see a driver being distracted. And i will urge my community and encourage my peers to not text and drive. I think i can take that pledge. The. o thank you for pledging, eric. All right. So that was the easy part. For jon, the hard part is ahead. Its just really hard to break people out of a bad lab and its break people from such an easy habit of peeking up their phone and reading something. The ultimate goal of lead is to have no more deaths in the u. S. By distracted driving. Doing all of this has taught me that perseverance and dedication really are the greatest qualities that you can have. And without those qualities, i dont think that i would have been able to start this because it takes a lot of time, a lot of commitment. A lot of
And parents to clean up local beaches. At 10, she was running a clothing drive for the children of refugees who had fled syria. Any one of those projects would be enough to be proud of, but ella was only just beginning, and shes with us today to talk about that. Hi, ella. Hi. Thank you for having me. Your biggest project started when you were preparing for your 12th birthday celebration. Tell us about it. In my religion, at the age of 12 or 13, everyone has a bar or bat mitzvah, im jewish, and usually you get gifts from your guests, but i decided that i ask them to give me money instead i could use that to do something big. What is it that you did, and how did you get the idea . [ella] i met sivan yaari, the founder of innovation africa, which is a Nonprofit Organization that brings israeli Solar Technology to rural african villages. And with her i found an orphanage in uganda to sponsor, and began my project there. What were the things you needed to buy for the orphanage . So, we had
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