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Four adolescence came calm to actualize a appearance book that helps explain the coronavirus communicable to kids through cartoon and reading.
Fifteen-year-olds Lauryn Hong, Ella Matlock, Sofia Migliazza and Erin Rogers are ascent sophomores at Long Beach Polytechnic High School in Long Beach, California.
"Since we were in quarantine, our economics abecedary absitively to let us do COVID-19 accompanying business plans," Hong told "Good Morning America." "Kids are acquirements about the virus and how to break safe but additionally get to be active."
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"We capital to do article that helped the association and helped kids so we absitively on a appearance book," Hong added.
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The adolescence were encouraged by their abecedary to about-face their business plan into a 28-page appearance book. The accompany said they acclimated Photoshop to abridge the accomplished book into a PDF and assassin a bounded printer to bind and book the aboriginal beachcomber of copies.
"In the beginning, we alone advancing to advertise 25 books to our accompany and family, and again we concluded up acclimation 450 books in our aboriginal order," Matlock said.
Fast advanced two months, and the sophomores said they accept awash about 9,000 copies and helped accession over $17,000 in the process. Each book costs $5 and every $2 goes to a alms of the buyer's choice, such as a accumulation accompanying to the Black Lives Matter movement or a hospital's COVID-19 abatement fund.
"We've awash about 9,000 books and we've donated a little bit over $17,000 throughout the two months we've been accomplishing this," Migliazza and Rogers told "GMA."
Long Beach abecedary Christine Bradfield begin out about the appearance book on Twitter and purchased a archetype for her 11-year-old and 6-year-old, Caleb and Cali.
"I adulation to abutment accepting in their altruistic efforts. They saw a charge in the association and acclimated their adroitness to advice others," Bradfield said.
John Napalan, ancestor of 4-year-old Jax and 1-year-old- Zara Napalan, told "Good Morning America" how abundant his kids adore the book.
"It has been actual accessible with starting conversations with our kids about the accepted situation. Our son asks questions all the time -- 'Why can't we see grandma? Why are there so abounding germs? Why do we charge to abrasion masks?' -- so this was a abundant kid affable ability to advice us explain what is activity on," Napalan said.
PHOTO: 4-year-old Jax and 1-year-old Zara Napalan from Long Beach, California admired the book and anon took apprehension of the characters cutting their masks. (Courtesy John Carlo Napalan)
In accession to giving aback to the community, the girls additionally said the book helped them.
"I anticipate it's helped us cope a lot during apprehension because we're absolutely not accomplishing much, so we've been absolutely kinda active with this," Matlock explained.
Each boyhood brought her own altered talents to accord to advertisement of the book.
"Laurnyn wrote the book, and Sofia and I do the drawings. Sofia does the activities in the book and Erin arranges it all in photoshop and works on our website as well," Matlock explained.
During this time, they've all been able to assignment calm to abound Color Co.'s amusing media presence. The accumulation affairs to absolution addition book in the advancing months on how to allocution to kids about racism and accepting aggressive by this moment of ancestral reckoning in the country.
"It's alleged 'Stand Up for Yourself' and it's about racism and teaching kids to be affectionate to anybody alike if they're different," Migliazza said.
"We achievement that the bodies account the books, mainly the little kids, are learning," Matlock noted. "We assignment adamantine to accomplish that possible."
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