Las Cruces Teens Use YouTube For Hospice Patients’ Benefit

By Doug Wernet

LAS CRUCES — Two Las Cruces teens begin a campaign to help raise $1,000,000 for terminally ill patients in their community for the holiday season.

Kayla and Navarre Brown produced a video that they shared on the video website ‘YouTube’ to help raise $1,000,000 for the Mesilla Valley Hospice center in Las Cruces.

In the video, they challenge every viewer to send in $1 to the hospice group to fund an expansion project.

The teens have volunteered at the hospice for several years and had collected 100 donations by Christmas Eve.

Realizing the influence and reachof the World Wide Web, the siblings said no one could argue with the rhetorical, ‘Why not use it for something good?’

When asked what their peers thought of the campaign, Kayla Brown described her friends exuberant support.

“They are totally for it and it’s really cool to see their reaction. A lot of my friends from school are like, ‘Hey! I saw you on YouTube, and you’re totally famous now!’ I say, I’m not exactly famous, I’m just trying to help out. It’s just been really cool to seetheir reaction,” Brown said.

The video, listed under the title ‘A Million Christmas Cards,’had over 1,200 views by early Monday evening. The teens’ video is available in the above link.