"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 ...

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.