When Indian Hill eighth-graders at Country Day School launched HOPE (Help Other People Endure) five years ago, they never suspected they would raise more than $1 million through car washes, t-shirt sales, and events to help a poverty-stricken Zulu South African village hard hit by AIDS. Having now just graduated high school, HOPE's founders say they remain committed to raising funds for Langkloof, a village of 3,000 people where many children have lost one or both parents to AIDS. "We're all going to stick with this," said Ellyn Guttman, who says she and the other founding members -- Jordan Baird, Carly Brightwell, Amanda Cohen, Megan Levine, Christie Lindner, Rachel Nussbaum, and Maya Amoils -- plan to bring HOPE to their colleges.

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