16-year old New York, NY resident Lillian Pravda is one of the four inspirational recipient's of the 2016 Nickelodeon HALO Awards for her hard work in the community with her non-profit organization, Vision for and from Children!
Only nine weeks after Lillian was born, she underwent surgery to remove a congenital cataract from her left eye. At age 5, she returned to the operating room to repair a lazy eye. After undergoing her eye surgeries, Lillian learned that not every child in need of eye care is fortunate to receive it. Not letting the surgeries set her back, she was inspired her to give the gift of sight to underprivileged children the world over.
Pravda initially started Vision for and from Children to help comfort young patients in a pediatric surgical unit, but soon grew it into an organization that supports children across the globe by providing access to sight-saving surgeries and vision services that they so desperately need and deserve. Millions of children are visually impaired, yet most have conditions that are easily diagnosed and corrected with access to treatment. To date, Vision for and from Children has helped 26,330 children around the world receive the gift of sight. It is Lillian's hope that, together, everyone will enable others to see the sun and moon.
Nick Cannon and HALO Honoree Lillian Pravda speak onstage during the 2016 Nickelodeon HALO Awards at Basketball City - Pier 36 - South Street on November 11, 2016 in New York City. (Nov. 10, 2016 - Source: Craig Barritt/Getty Images North America)
Watch Lillian receive her honor at the must-see concert event of the season, the 2016 HALO Awards, hosted by Nick Cannon and featuring special appearances by top music artists Jason Derulo, Hailee Steinfeld, Zedd, Alessia Cara, Daya, Jake Miller, Jacob Whitesides, Dance Moms star JoJo Siwa, and stars from the Nickelodeon hit shows The Thundermans and School of Rock, premiering Sunday, Nov. 27, at 7 p.m. (ET/PT), across Nickelodeon USA, TeenNick and Nicktoons! For more information about the 2016 Nickelodeon HALO Awards and Vision for and from Children, visit nick.com/halo16 and visionforandfromchildren.org. Congratulations on your award, Lillian!!
13-Year Old Long Beach, California resident Jonas Corona is one of the inspirational recipient's of the 2016 Nickelodeon HALO Awards for the love and volunteerism his non-profit organization, Love in the Mirror (LITM), has shown disadvantaged children and their families. Jonas was inspired to help others after meeting a homeless kid his own age on Los Angeles' Skid Row. Since Corona started his own organization, over 45,000 homeless people have been impacted by the organization’s fundraising and donation efforts.
Thirteen-year-old Jonas Corona volunteering at Los Angeles Skid Row. Courtesy Love in the Mirror
When Long Beach teen Jonas Corona was just six years old, he started a nonprofit called Love in the Mirror, a charitable organization that strives to inspire young people to Make A Difference through their volunteer commitment of providing disadvantaged youth and their families basic necessities such as food, clothing and learning materials.
"I chose the name because it reminds me of a song and the song makes me think of people who don’t have toys and clothes because every kid should look in the mirror and love themselves," Corona wrote in 2009, following his experience feeding homeless children with his mom and aunt.
Now 13 years old, Corona is one of four kids being recognized at this year’s Nickelodeon HALO Awards, a concert special that airs Sunday and celebrates kids who are "helping and leading others" and trying to better their communities.
"I am grateful to be recognized by Nickelodeon for the volunteer work that I do through Love in the Mirror. I hope to inspire more teens to volunteer in their communities," said Corona.
Love in the Mirror has helped more than 45,000 homeless people through fundraising and collecting items such as socks, hygiene items and new toys for the holidays.
"I just love helping and giving," Corona said in a statement.
Watch Jonas receive his honor at the must-see concert event of the season, the 2016 HALO Awards, hosted by Nick Cannon and featuring special appearances by top music artists Jason Derulo, Hailee Steinfeld, Zedd, Alessia Cara, Daya, Jake Miller, Jacob Whitesides, Dance Moms star JoJo Siwa, and stars from the Nickelodeon hit shows The Thundermans and School of Rock, premiering Sunday, Nov. 27, at 7 p.m. (ET/PT), across Nickelodeon USA, TeenNick and Nicktoons! For more information about the 2016 Nickelodeon HALO Awards and Love in the Mirror, visit nick.com/halo16 and loveinthemirror.org. Congratulations on your award, Jonas!!
The public is invited to join Jonas and Love in the Mirror volunteers at Legends in Long Beach, Calif. for a HALO Awards viewing party. Food and drinks will be available for purchase. Bring a new, unwrapped toy valued at $5 or more for a chance to win prizes. Visit the Facebook event page here for more information.
12-year old Abingdon, Maryland resident Grace Callwood is one of the four inspirational recipient's of the 2016 Nickelodeon HALO Awards for her work in the community with her non-profit organization We Cancerve Movement, Inc.
Grace Callwood is being recognized this month as a 2016 Nickelodeon HALO Award honoree. (Photo courtesy of Lena Coutinho)
Grace established the organization in 2012, shortly after being diagnosed with Stage IV non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma, a form of cancer, at the age of seven. She had to miss school and take a break from her favorite hobby, dance, because her body became too weak. Still, she found that she had enough strength to volunteer.
After gaining weight from the chemotherapy, Callwood donated her brand-new back-to-school clothes to two girls who had recently lost everything in a fire. This decision inspired Callwood to help a hospital and a foundation for sick children by running a lemonade stand, raising $633 in four hours. And then she decided to start a charitable group of her own: the We Cancerve Movement, an organization that creates activities to bring happiness to homeless, sick and foster children through events and donated goods. "It gave me a good feeling," Grace said recently, "so I kept going." In four years, We Cancerve has served 3,743 homeless, sick and foster youth with plans to add another 1,300 by December 2016.
Grace is now cancer-free. She was one of four kids honored at this year’s Nickelodeon HALO Awards, a concert special that airs Sunday and celebrates kids who are "helping and leading others." She's one of many kids who are trying to better their communities.
Grace Callwood receives her award from host Nick Cannon at the 2016 Nickelodeon HALO Awards, which air Sunday. Callwood started a nonprofit for needy kids after she was diagnosed with cancer. (Craig Barritt/Getty Images for Nickelodeon)
"I'm very honored to be a 2016 Nickelodeon HALO Awards Honoree. This award presents another opportunity for me to bring more awareness to helping homeless, sick and foster children, and to inspire my peers to make a difference in their communities," said Callwood, who is also the 2016 Children's Cancer Foundation Ambassador. "I am so glad to have so much support from my board of advisors, my community and my friends and family."
"My board of advisors has great ideas, gives advice and amazing feedback, and are very helpful," she continued. "From the start, I've had the support of my family and friends, and from countless people in our community who believe in the work that We Cancerve does for homeless, sick and foster children."
Callwood is a sixth-grade student at Edgewood Middle School, where she excels in math and reading, plays trumpet in the school band and serves on the Student Government Association.
Her school recently held an assembly "to show their support and pride for the honor Grace has received in being selected for the HALO award," Jillian Lader, Harford County Public Schools manager of communications, said.
Grace's group recently held "Breakfast Bags Bonanza," a major stuffing party, on Nov. 17 at the Boys & Girls Club of Havre de Grace, where the community was invited to help decorate and fill brown paper sacks with nonperishable breakfast items for 500 homeless and hungry young people in Harford County for the Thanksgiving break.
Grace E. G. Callwood, left, is shown with members of WeCancerve Movement's all youth board of advisors Alexis Bell, Erin Acerno and Amol Menon during a recent trip to a local fabric store to purchase fleece to make wearable blankets for hospitalized children. Callwood won a $650 grant from the Karma for Cara Foundation earlier this fall for the project. Bell, age 11, will chair this project. Callwood is being honored by Nicholodeon this month for her community service. (Courtesy of T' Jae Gibson / Provided photo)
To date, We Cancerve has donated more than $9,000 in cash grants to Sinai Hospital, Casey Cares Foundation, Harford Family House, Anna's House, Eastside Family Emergency Shelter and the Sharing Table, and plus more than $23,000 in products to more than seven homeless shelters, four hospitals and a group home for children in foster care.
"You don't always have to do something huge," Grace said, encouraging kids to find ways to volunteer. "Just do what you can."
We Cancerve has established an accumulator fund with the Community Foundation of Harford County (CFHC). The We Cancerve Accumulator Fund will eventually become a permanent fund of CFHC to support the work of the We Cancerve Movement. Contributions made to the Community Foundation of Harford County are tax-deductible, and can be designated to the We Cancerve Accumulator Fund.
Harford County Executive Barry Glassman and Grace Callwood, 11-year-old Founder of the WeCancerve Foundation would like to welcome you to participate in SOCKtober.
The Community Foundation of Harford County is a 501(c)(3) public charity (nonprofit) supported by the community through donations. For more information, visit www.wecancerve.org.
Watch Grace receive her honor at the must-see concert event of the season, the 2016 HALO Awards, hosted by Nick Cannon and featuring special appearances by top music artists Jason Derulo, Hailee Steinfeld, Zedd, Alessia Cara, Daya, Jake Miller, Jacob Whitesides, Dance Moms star JoJo Siwa, and stars from the Nickelodeon hit shows The Thundermans and School of Rock, premiering Sunday, Nov. 27, at 7 p.m. (ET/PT), across Nickelodeon USA, TeenNick and Nicktoons! For more information about the 2016 Nickelodeon HALO Awards, visit nick.com/halo16. Congratulations on your award, Grace!!
We all know who lives in a pineapple under the sea. The real question is, which version of the SpongeBob theme song do you like better? Nick Stars or Nick Noises? Let Nickelodeon know by leaving them a comment in the comment section here on YouTube!:
Watch more of your favorite shows and stars on Nickelodeon, Nicktoons, TeenNick, The Splat and Nick Jr.!Follow NickALive! on Twitter, Tumblr, Google+, via RSS, on Instagram, and/or Facebook for the latest Nickelodeon and SpongeBob SquarePants News and Highlights!
The Nickelodeon Animation Studio got these extra special The Splat adult coloring books and asked a couple of 90s kids, Raj Brueggemann and Niki Lopez, to help them color in some rad memories! They may be professional artists, but they're definitely kids at heart!:
Watch all your '90s Nickelodeon favorites on The Splat, your late-night destination for your favorite childhood Nickelodeon cartoons and live-action shows! The Splat doesn't question football-shaped heads, but embrace them - along with Reptar bars, a Big Ear of Corn, orange soda, and even slime for Pete (and Pete's) sake. Make your slime-covered Nickelodeon childhood dreams come true every night at 10pm ET/PT, only on TeenNick USA! #TheSplat!
Watch all your '90s Nickelodeon favorites on The Splat, your late-night destination for your favorite childhood Nickelodeon cartoons and live-action shows! The Splat doesn't question football-shaped heads, but embrace them - along with Reptar bars, a Big Ear of Corn, orange soda, and even slime for Pete (and Pete's) sake. Make your slime-covered Nickelodeon childhood dreams come true every night at 10pm ET/PT, only on TeenNick USA! #TheSplat!
Watch more SpongeBob SquarePants on Nickelodeon and Nicktoons!Follow NickALive! on Twitter, Tumblr, Google+, via RSS, on Instagram, and/or Facebook for the latest Halloween on Nickelodeon Latin America and SpongeBob SquarePants News and Highlights!
Tune into Nick Kicks Fridays at 5:30pm on Nicktoons UK & Ireland (repeats Saturday at 10am), plus check out nicktoons.co.uk/nickkicks and the award-winning Nick Play app for more footie-tastic Nick Kicks videos, behind-the-scenes content, polls, quizzes and games! Back of the net!Follow NickALive! on Twitter, Tumblr, Google+, via RSS, on Instagram, and/or Facebook for the latest Nickelodeon UK, Nicktoons and Nick Kicks News and Highlights!
Watch more The Loud House on Nickelodeon and Nicktoons!Follow NickALive! on Twitter, Tumblr, Google+, via RSS, on Instagram, and/or Facebook for the latest Nickelodeon and The Loud House News and Highlights!
Butch Hartman, the award-winning creator of Nickelodeon's popular series The Fairly OddParents, Danny Phantom and T.U.F.F Puppy, and the upcoming Nicktoon Bunsen is a Beast!, learns how to be a YouTuber with the help of PewDiePie (& TerminalMontage) in this super video!:
Nickelodeon Turkey has announced the exciting news in a series of posts on their official Facebook profile page, Facebook.com/NickelodeonTurkey, that Nickelodeon Turkey (Türkiye) will start to premiere and show The Other Kingdom, a brand-new fantasy series, locally titled Öteki Krallık, which brings together a world of mythical creatures, magical beings and high school teens, from Monday 5th December 2016 at 22:05'te!
Nickelodeon's all-new live-action series (20 episodes) follows the journey of Fairy Princess Astral, who has to choose between being a fairy princess or becoming human, as she is set to inherit the crown of her royal kingdom of Athenia.
Leaving her fairy world behind to pursue her ultimate dream of life as a mortal, Astral's adventures begin when she enrolls into Theseus High School as a freshmen exchange student. With the help of her new friends Tristan, Morgan and Devon, and magical spells and fairy dust, her journey through human teen-dom is full of laughs, self-discovery and romance, until a sinister plot threatens the fate of her fairy kingdom. With her time in the human world running out, she is torn between saving her homeland and choosing her new life---and she only has 90 days to decide!
The Other Kingdom stars Esther Zynn as Princess Astral, Callan Potter as Tristan, Celina Martin as Morgan, Taylor Adams as Devon, Alvina August as Versitude, Adam Peddle as Brendoni, Martin Roach as King Oberon, Jeff Douglas as Oswald, Tori Anderson as Queen Titania, Josette Halpert as Hailey Grimm, C.J. Byrd-Vassell as Winston and Torri Webster (Life with Boys) as PeaseBlossom.
The Other Kingdom is created and executive produced by Thomas W. Lynch (Make It Pop) and produced by DHX Media, with Steven DeNure and Anne Loi of DHX Media also serving as executive producers.
To celebrate Nickelodeon Turkey debuting Ride, nickelodeon.com.tr has unveiled their official Öteki Krallık show website to accompany the all-new series, which currently features information about the new series and a character bio for Peri Prenses Astral.Follow NickALive! on Twitter, Tumblr, Google+, via RSS, on Instagram, and/or Facebook for the latest Nickelodeon Turkey and The Other Kingdom News and Highlights!
