Wichita Eagle | 09/11/2005 | Boy's charity grows from pennies

Wichita Eagle | 09/11/2005 | Boy's charity grows from pennies: "Boy's charity grows from pennies

BY BONNIE BING

The Wichita Eagle

While sitting in a doctor's waiting room in Denver five years ago, 9-year-old Derek Cesarek read a magazine article about a young man who had collected coins and donated them to charity.

'I tapped my mom on the shoulder and said I wanted to do something like that,' he said.

His mom, Deborah, said she had thought, 'Fine, that will last about a week.'

But it has lasted much longer.

Soon after that appointment, Derek started collecting pennies. His goal: a million one-cent pieces."