"When you throw a pebble into a lake, you can see the ripples.
It starts to affect everyone around you."
That's what Erin Peden, executive director of the Red Deer and District Community Foundation, told her 5th- and 6th-graders at St.
Martin School in Red Deer, Alberta, when she told them about a program that teaches them how to give back to their community, the CBC reports.
The foundation's Youth in Philanthropy Project has raised more than $17,000 for local charities since it was introduced last year, with St.
Martin students contributing $15,000.
"They're taking the message of the program home to their parents, and that's a huge reason why we teach them the word philanthropy," Peden tells the Red Deer News.
The kids are "in this beautiful pocket, we've discovered, where kids are really curious about things like financial literacy and social issues," she says.
The foundation hopes to expand the program to other schools.
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