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Jayme was born with aortic stenosis, a heart disorder that requires multiple surgeries. Since the March of Dimes strives to prevent birth defects, Jayme has been serving as its Volunteer Youth Ambassador since 1989, when she was 3 years old. She helps promote public awareness, by continually devoting her time, energy and talents toward raising funds for the less fortunate.
At age 4, Jayme participated in her first March of Dimes TV commercial. Since age 5, she's been kicking off Eastern Suffolk March of Dimes programs such as WalkAmerica. She addresses huge crowds with her inspirational messages. At age 11, she started her own walk team which she calls "Jayme's Ambassadors". At age 12, she recruited 2-year-old Jewel Joy Stevens as a new March of Dimes Youth Ambassador to help her raise funds during the new millennium. |
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Clinton, born with a rare form of dwarfism, has been competing in the Empire State Games for the Physically Challenged since he was 5 years old. He's won numerous gold medals in track and field events.
He participated in Alabama's 1st Games for the Physically Challenged, served as its Junior Good Will Ambassador, and helped "kick off" the games. He was a guest speaker on TV talk shows during which he explained the concepts of the games. |
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At age 4, Erin was modeling and doing magazine shoots. A year later, her "career" was put on hold, because starting school was more important. For the next three years, she pleaded with her parents (who have 4 other children) to let her start auditioning again. They consented when she was 10. Erin auditioned approximately 50 times each year competing against thousands of kids. Her persistence landed her two or three roles a year. She's done TV commercials for Macys, Coca-Cola, and Claritin. She portrayed Little Vickie in the soap opera Another World and had the recurring role of Little Reva in Guiding Light. She also played the daughter in the film Butterfly Legend.
At age 11, Erin was selected to play the role of the daughter in the film Black Dog. At 13, she landed the role of Maureen in the weekly TV series Law and Order: Special Victims Unit. Erin works eight hours, one day every other week, taping the series. "She has a photographic memory and can memorize a 20-page script during the drive to the studio," explains her mom. |
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Christopher created the Christmas Angel Project in his former hometown of Midland, Pennsylvania. It provides gifts for children whose families can neither afford gifts nor qualify for charity.
When Christopher was in kindergarten, his friend explained how Christmas wasn't coming to his house, because his mother had started working. "I asked him why, and he said that Santa only helped the rich, and Salvation Army only helped people who didn't work," explains Christopher, who became angry at such a thought. So angry, in fact, that he decided to do something about it. With his family's help, he began to approach local businesses to sponsor children by buying them gifts. In the first year, Christopher was able to bring Christmas to 34 children. Now, eight years later, his annual project provides a merry holiday to more than 200 children and also includes a Breakfast with Santa. A move from Midland to Clevland in 1998 didn't stop Christopher from spreading the holiday cheer to those in need in his former hometown. He and his entire family spend hundreds of hours throughout the year promoting the program, registering families, seeking donations, wrapping, and distributing the gifts. "As long as there is a need, I will be here to help," he says. As a seventh-grader at Benjamin Franklin School, Christopher was honored by Prudential as one of America's Top Ten Youth Volunteers of 2002. |
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