Miami Herald, The (FL)
2004-06-27
Section: Neighbors BC
Edition: Final
Page: 4MB

While most kids her age only compose essays and poems as homework assignments, Sara Berlin is already the author and publisher of a book that promotes political activism.

Haitian Children Are Kids Too!, a 28-page booklet, conveys the plight of Haitian children who immigrate to America. Sara, a 12-year-old who lives in North Miami Beach, was first inspired to take up the cause after attending a fundraiser for People for the American Way, a national civil rights group, with her father Louis Berlin last year. The event featured an exhibition of photographs, and she saw one of a boy holding a sign that read ``Haitian Children are Kids Too!''

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