There are kids all over the country (and the world) who don’t own their own box of crayons and schools who can’t afford to provide art supplies to their students, leaving lots of kids living in a colorless world.

Thankfully, 10-year-old Bethany Kuster is looking to change that with her charity, Color for Kids.  Once Bethany found out that there are kids without color in their lives, she teamed up with her favorite teacher and the rest of her 4th grade class to collect crayons, markers, colored pencils, and all sorts of other art supplies to donate to kids who need them.  The very first classroom she donated to was from a school in Alabama. This particular class contained 25 students all sharing the SAME box of twistable crayons – certainly not enough to go around.

With the help of her family and friends, Bethany was able to start Color for Kids – a charity that’s helping kids all around the world experience a life full of color. 

Bethany was one of 12 youth selected to receive the 2016 TD Bank Young Heroes Award, which honors young people from Pennsylvania, New Jersey and New York. Now a fifth-grader, she started the project when she was in fourth grade and to date has collected and given away 100,000 crayons (over 2,800 pounds of color) to more than 3,000 kids.