The Rittenhouse Review

A Philadelphia Journal of Politics, Finance, Ethics, and Culture


Friday, December 31, 2004  

A TOY STORY
Amid Darkness, Light

From Reuters:

Two Norwegian 10-year-olds have sold their toys to raise $450 for victims of the Asian tsunami, the daily Dagbladet reported on Friday.

“It is terrible, and especially because so many children are affected,” one of the children, Ebba Tangen, told the newspaper. “So we are selling some of our toys so we can help out.”

Tangen and her schoolmate Jor Hjustad Tvedt sold toys and cakes at a square in central Oslo, raising 2,750 Norwegian crowns ($454.70) in four hours. They said they would give the money to the Red Cross and other aid organisations.

The Dagbladet story, “Solgte Lekene,” includes of a photograph of Tangen and Tvedt.

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