To ensure security, kids communicate via an avatar, while adults can approve their children's Pen Pals and monitor communications. Postcards automatically translate into seven different languages – ...

A new content initiative aims to restore children's curiosity, creativity, and excitement, and most importantly, get them ...

Not many kids can say their pen pal is a witch. But some third-graders in Aplington, Ia., can, thanks to a project their teacher, Brian Sammons, set up several years ago with actress Hayley Podschun.

Kevin Wong Ho-yin, the founder of digital pen pal app Slowly, believes that due to the convenience of technology that we’ve grown so used to, we’ve become less patient and are growing less ...

They know each other after months of writing to one another and putting pen to paper for a good old fashion pen pal. “Every month the kids write a letter. We send it to the seniors, seniors ...

Since that chance meeting, the teacher and the combat veteran have stayed in touch. She sends letters every Veterans' Day and he answers each and every one.

This wasn't the first time they had done this - the organisation started the cross-border pen pal programme in 2010. Since then more than 50,000 kids from Mumbai, Delhi, and Dehradun have become ...