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It's Win-win For Elderly Tutors, Grade-school Kids

For 73-year-old Rosetta Handy, and the second-graders who dote on her, it's a 50/50 proposition, with winners all around.

"They help me as much as I help them," said Handy of her volunteer work as a tutor at Belmont Elementary School in a low-income West Baltimore neighborhood. "They give you energy. You learn psychology all over again.

It's Win-win For Elderly Tutors, Grade-school Kids - CBS News

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