As I was watching the show tears would come to my eyes. I am so proud of these young people! I teach in a disadvantaged, high crime and poverty area in Chicago. I pray wish hope and would love to see this passion for learning where I teach. As I saw the young girl post her newspapers and hang her workbooks in her room I know that she will use that fire to help her succeed. Many of the children I encounter daily dont have that. Getting them to see that they are fortunate (libraries, supplies, wallls in classrooms, running water, breakfast and lunch daily, etc.) is a challenge for me. Many days I leave the classroom drained but I keep coming back. I am afraid not to. Thanks for allowing me to see that I can make a difference by staying in this fight to make sure that our young people see the value of education. I need all the inspiration I can get from wherever I can get it. The O Ambassadors are great models for us all to follow.

Oprah, I am disappointed in you. On memorial day, you should have had a show honoring our brave soldiers - many of whom have died so that you can enjoy your right to free speech on television. Moreover: enough about the African children! You live in America, and our own American children could use your help. I grow increasingly disappointed in your failure to honor America. SAD.

maharani20, what do you think those American kids will do when they go back home ?

Return to their same old/same old routine ? I don't think so for everyine of them. Some of them will

want to start change at home. That is why people continue to give to people to go change things oversee,

when giving the price of the airplane ticket directly to people over there would have make more of an impact...

I think this is a great experience for the kids who actually got to go to Kenya to experience how they made such a difference in the lives of the Kenyan children. Unfortunately the next group are not so fortunate. My child was selected to participate in the Tanzanian trip and was so so excited not about the trip so much as the difference he would make and the people he would help by building the school when he gets there. But with little time to departure he was told he had to fundraise all the funds for the trip and that a series of donations would be offered by the program with no specific amount. So he could not effectively fundraise and of course we could not afford to pay over 6000 dollars in trip expenses. Did Oprah get my messages ? I reached out through email but never got any response. Oprah needs to get more involved in the planning and coordination of this program. The coordination is done from Toronto and is so vague and inconsistent that I would not recommend this to anyone. If scholarships are offered to kids from Chicago Public Schools they should be honored in full. it is really sad to get kids all excited about the Me to We concept and helping others and then dashing their hopes to the ground .........

I have never been so moved as I have today. When I first heard about O-abassadors I got really excited to show our school principal. I had no idea how big this really was. It is about time we start showing our kids how effective we can be as a community if we are willing to put in some hard work to help others. I am a mother of two boys and I only wish that I can get them involved in something so big that could help changes this world. It is so sad to watch the news and read the paper, because all you hear is the violence and destruction that is going on, finally I could watch something with my boys that was inspiring and uplifing and show them that the world is not all bad and that it is up to us to make it better. I am hoping that even if we don't get accepted to be a part of your program that it may inspire our school committee to fallow in your foot steps and start something of our own.

Thank you Oprah!

So nasale, are you a vegan ? Because from your post, being a vegetarian would not cut it" eating eggs would be wrong for you, as the chicken are raised usually with barbarian standard

in Occident... And forget about milk, the way cow are park and milked...

One thing I have to say is that it hurts to think that I am NOT making a difference compared to all these celebrity's doing this while i am sitting at home trying with all my heart to help the people that are hurting just around me when these kids get rewareded for helpping people in other countries. People in this country are afraid to admit that before we go galavanting off to other countries to help them shouldn't we first help those who live in the same town as us. It's a great thing Oprah is doing but i just wish people would stop ignoring OUR PROPBLEMS and start doing something! WHAT ABOUT THE Kids in Foster Care, what about the homeless (YES THERE ARE HOMELESS PEOPLE ALL AROUND US and no they are not just bums or slackers, they're the men and women we sent to war, our own people!!!) I just wish it was known.

This is From all of the Kids/Teens who do get it,

Sarah Jungling

P.S. My point is that some kids GET IT, it's hurts those who do to be pushed aside just because of the fact that we are kids. Every time i see some kid geting interviewed on T.V. I think what makes them so special just because they kept contacting the press or maybe they know someone who works there.

Unfortunately I started reading this and as I was wondering how soon it would be that someone would find fault and be critical and it happened within one post.

Those children did something wonderful and I am saddened if some come here they will see all their efforts put down.

I say bravo & brava to these young men and women who gave of themselves as well as the 2 young men who started this ball rolling.

True enough we have so many that are without in this country, but lets face it we are so privileged here. Even among the ones who struggle to make ends meet at least have some ends and a possibility of them meeting once in awhile. One thing for sure I hope the fire in the belly of these young ambassadors do not die out and spread like wildfire. Someone said it well in that their vision of themselves in this world is irrevocably altered and they will see the things taken for granted not so much in granted and I suspect will be eager to do something on the home front.

More power to them!

Most of the time I admire the work you do to help others, but I too am disappointed ONCE AGAIN with you. You just showed kids on your program today helping all other parts of the world, but NOT a single one helping any of the poor and needy kids in this country, or have you forgotten what country it is that gave you all of your "Millions"? I don't remember seeing you ever do a help-program for these poorest parts of this country, and I am talking about AMERICA, in case you have forgotten where you are.

The Indian reservations and the hills of Appalachia are as poor an area to live in as any in where you seem to rather want to help. Why don't you take 10-minutes to educate yourself on those areas, and maybe you'd learn that several "dozen" children die every day from lack of food and medical treatment, and they are our neighbors, --- or at least they are mine. I no longer know where you call home since most of the time it does not seem like it's in America.

I have supported Feed The Children for over 20 years, so maybe they can teach you what it's like to be poor in America while the rich and famous pat themselves on the back for helping the rest of the world, and ignoring them.

Hi oprah, I seen a few minutes into the last part of the show and it seem u had colored shrits representing different nation but the middle east ,what's up whit that?

real talk ,that some bull. but i enjoy watching your show and keep up all the good work your truly a pioneer.

Great concept, excellent program! The O Ambassadors did an outstanding job building the school and making friends across the world. Their contribution to the community will have a long lasting and life changing impact on the future of the children who will now be able to attend school. Those who participated as O Ambassadors did a superb job and learned lasting life lessons that will serve them well in the future. What a wonderful program!

I am constantly impressed by the contributions both in the US and overseas that Oprah, the Angel Network and the whole team makes. Sixty schools in 13 countries, uniforms for school children, nearly 300 homes built or restored in eight communities across four states-Texas, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Alabama, 500,000 books distributed through First Book, to children who lost everything in the wake of Katrina. Whether the Angel Network helps the Academy of Hope in Washingon DC, Brantwood Children's Home in Alabama, the School on Wheels in Las Angeles, Keep a Child Alive, America's Second Harvest or one of the many programs helping women in both the US and across the world - the Angel Network and donors have made such a positive difference.

Now, with O Ambassadors, young teens are learning that one person can make a difference and they are! What an empowering gift to these young people and what a wonderful gift to the future! Excellent! Simply excellent!

MillDogMom

I was surprised the show was not dedicated to the soldiers who have fought for our country. This is Memorial Day, or did Oprah not realize this. Is there some reason this very important day in the history of our country was not mentioned?

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Thank you, thank you, thank you! I wonder when people realize what she stands for.

This weekend I was reading an article in our local Sunday paper about the new age survivalists

that are preparing themselves for the coming apocalypse in America because of food and fuel

shortages. They are planning on homesteading, stocking up their supplies, arming themselves

with weapons and ammo to defend their stockpiles against marauding hordes of the hungry and

unprepared. They are already acknowledging that they will fight to the death to defend what is

theirs and will not be caring about the needy. They are angry about the rising cost of energy in

this country because it is being sucked up by "those people over there that are living better lives

and using more fuel and eating better food."

This show was to me moving because of the hope that coming generations [with no help from

some mass market New Earth paperback] have in them a hope for their future and a belief that

the world around them can be better than what most adults now see. I was their age in the 70's

with the food/fuel shortage, acid rain, end of Vietnam, inflation, human rights atrocities across the

globe. There was no outlet for young people at that time to make a difference in their world or to

even feel they had the possibility of it. Yeah, they could do good works in their own country. Yeah,

Oprah may be using this to promote herself. No, there is not one country in the entire world that

cares about the homeless or suffering in the U.S. maybe because our version of suffering is quite

hilarious to what they live with. Anyone [not only the TV personalities] aware of suffering in America

should put their money where their mouth is and do something in their own neighborhoods and

communities. Don't wait for the person that has more money than God to do it for you.

Ok, here goes, I am a 16 year old girl, I was watching your show today with my grandmother & I was completley motivated & immediatly wanted to try my best to help in any way possible. I live in a small town in louisiana called westlake, a middle class area, Im not a deprived or underprivilaged person, & I want to form some type of a club at my school for the O ambassadors but I doubt my school would like the idea, its a small school with small ideas to say the least. I love the idea of going to an underprivilaged country & helping to build schools, wells, anything necessary to help those people have a better chance at an education and a life. I want so badley to help, but I dont know where to start, please help me. I want to be an O ambassador & help , but Im alone in the situation. How do you get a chance to go & help? Thats my dilima, I have the ambiition, just no resources.:(