"It became more of a friendship than just writing back and forth," said fifth grader Trinity Danzy of her bond with her high school pen pal.

The pen pal club started as a way to help teenagers volunteer and connect with local seniors, especially those in memory care ...

Roberta MacKenzie, of Gagetown, N.B., and Pat Cunningham of Perth, Scotland, started sending letters to each other in the ...

Backpacker killer Ivan Milat accidentally revealed to a long-term pen pal that he was making a cup of tea while an accomplice ...

From sea-themed reading challenges to intergenerational pen pals, Saline schools, seniors, and the library are making ...

Over 100 Winsor Elementary Students from Schools Weeks, Floyd Bell, and Palmer Elementary schools spent their Friday meeting ...

He wanted to expand the impact of his volunteer work and invited his peers to join him in writing letters to senior residents. "The pen pal idea, I didn’t expect it to be this big," Carpenter said.

The elementary school students were exhilarated to meet their college mentors, and the sorority members felt the same way.