Headlines from December 22, 2006
- If there's one thing we've learned this year, it's that the world needs saving: The Natural Resources Defense Council.
- The Addis Ababa Fistula Hospital works to treat women with obstetric fistulas, a nasty and easily fixed birth complication. (More background.)
- The Brooklyn Animal Resource Coalition takes in homeless animals and finds them loving homes.
- Where we get our Roosters: The Heifer Foundation.
- Meals for those too sick to provide their own: God's Love We Deliver.
- Emergency assistance for those affected by disaster or armed conflict: Doctors Without Borders.
- Helen & Douglas House is a children's hospice in Oxford.
- Change through sport: Right to Play teaches sport to disadvantaged children around the world.
- Change through music: Music as Therapy is a tiny charity that brings music therapy to Romanian orphans.
- The Town Hall Education Arts and Recreation Center in D.C. has a drive going on right now.
- For many in Louisiana, the crisis still is not over: Louisiana Disaster Recovery Foundation.
- Prepare Self-Defense fights crime before it happens--by teaching world-class self-defense in public schools.
- Modest Needs stops poverty before it happens--by helping low-income workers through unexpected expenses.
- With Kiva you can lend money to entrepreneurs in developing countries to help them help themselves out of poverty.
- Help drunk Santa get the booze; then track him through NORAD.
- From all of us to all of you: Thank you for making it such a special year. Have a safe and happy holiday--see you on Jan. 2.