Angel Network

In 1997, Oprah came up with the Angle Network, which was a program that collected spare change to send children to school. The Angel Network was first thought up when a young girl by the name of Nora appeared on the Oprah show as she had raised $4000 in pennies for needy students. It was thought of if one little girl can do that imagine what so many more can do. Over the next ten months Oprah asked many people to help with the Angle Network and to donate their spare change. The final drop off was in New York City and the grand total raised towards to Angel Network was $3,557,083.94 which is a huge amount! With that raised now 1 student from each state could receive a $25,000 scholarship, and after that 50 students for the next two years aswell. After watching that one televison a young boy by the name of Paul, whom had never been on a vacation had been saving up to go to Disneyland with his mom asked his mom to rather than go on a trip to donate the money they had saved to the Angel Network. Paul told Oprah that though Disneyland may have been fun, giving someone an education that will last forever would be better. Though the original idea was thought of by a young girl, Oprah made a bigger thing happen. Then after watching her show others are also inspired to do more, such as in the case of young Paul.