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Headlines for Friday, December 22, 2006

Morning Edition

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.

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