Ways to Impact Your World every day
Giving love in a shoebox
David Mattingly introduces us to a young woman whose life was changed when she received a shoebox gift years ago, and who now prepares these boxes for this year-round campaign to give joy to those in need.Video Video | Shoebox delivery Video

How you can help:

Samaritan's Purse

Helping survivors of the tsunami
On December 26, 2004, a Tsunami claimed the lives of some 245,000 people in 14 nations. Five years later, much has been rebuilt. But as Dan Rivers tells us through the story of one little girl, there are many survivors still struggling to overcome the consequences of that tragic day. Video Video | Special Coverage

How you can help:

The Global Medical Relief Fund

Keep climbing
Sean Swarner is used to defying the odds, starting when he was 13 years old. He is the only person to have been diagnosed with both Hodgkins and Askins sarcoma. He is an improbable cancer survivor, and he's giving young cancer patients something he never had while fighting the disease: hope. Arwa Damon reports. Video

How you can help:

Cancer Climber
Little Star Foundation
The Sunshine Kids Foundation
Bear Necessities Pediatric Cancer Foundation
Cure Childhood Cancer
Lance Armstrong Foundation

The fight against AIDS
World AIDS Day is December 1, and CNN looks at an unlikely participant in the fight to end the disease. We all know her music, but Alicia Keys is also involved in making a difference in Africa, where 40 percent of the population there is infected with the HIV/AIDS virus. Video | AIDS epidemic today Video Video

How you can help:

Keep a Child Alive
Elton John AIDS Foundation
National AIDS Fund
International AIDS Vaccine Initiative
UNAIDS - Joint U.N. Program on HIV/AIDS
AMFAR
International HIV/AIDS Alliance
The Body

Helping disabled children
A couple headed to China to start up a hotel business. Instead, they began a center in China to help developmentally disabled children and adopted an abandoned baby girl. Video Video

How you can help:

Bright Connections
UNICEF
China Care Foundation
Save The Children
Safe drinking water
Tracy Hawkins went to Africa to teach a pottery class and returned with a solution to filter safe drinking water for the world's poorest communities. Video Video

How you can help:

Filter Pure
Pure Water for the World
Water.org
Global Water
Water Aid

Free health care
Wondering just how the tens of millions of uninsured Americans get their health care? They sometimes rely on charities like Remote Area Medical, which has provided free health care to the poor for decades. Video Video

How you can help:

Remote Area Medical

Preventing blindness
Trachoma affects 40 million people across the globe and it's cost 10 million people their eyesight ... and it's absolutely preventable. Volunteers and organizations are teaming up to combat this flyborne eye disease. Learn more about trachoma | Video Video

How you can help:

The Carter Center
World Health Organization

Malaria's deadly threat
Malaria claims almost a million lives each year. But a simple prevention tool is one way you can help -- low-cost mosquito bed nets prevent the disease from being transmitted. Learn more about malaria | Researcher: Malaria's origin in chimps

How you can help:

Global Viral Forecasting Initiative
Nothing But Nets
Malaria No More
PATH
Double amputee loses legs, finds a cause
Jordan Thomas’ life changed when he lost both legs on a family fishing trip. But his loss led to a new mission: helping fellow amputees whose needs are often ignored by health insurance companies. Full story | Video Video

How you can help:

Jordan Thomas Foundation
Haiti: Modern day slavery
The U.N. says there are 300,000 Haitian children who live in grinding poverty. These children, who work in people’s homes in exchange for food and shelter, are trapped in a modern-day form of slavery, the international agency says. Full story | Video Video

How you can help:

Restavek Foundation
A new crisis in Iraq
The U.S. role in Iraq may be winding down, but problems persist for the country. The war has displaced millions of Iraqis. Actress and U.N. goodwill ambassador Angelina Jolie visits for a firsthand look at the refugees. Video Video

How you can help:

UNHCR
Refugees International
Gifts of computers to children
An immigrant to the U.S. from Ghana uses his skills to refurbish computers to give back to children in his native country. Full story

How you can help:
EVCOAfrica
World Vision
International Children’s Fund
Ghana Education Project

Garbage for good
In Indonesia, one woman is helping those who make their living by picking through trash while also aiding the landscape with an environmentally conscious line of products. Video Video

How you can help:

XS Project
World Care
More ways to help the environment
Pop culture can influence humanity
As the world reflects on the life of Michael Jackson, one of his great humanitarian accomplishments, "We are the World" can be celebrated and continued, with the purchase of the "We are the World" single, the music video, and the 20th anniversary DVD. The proceeds from these sales fund the original foundation USA for Africa which continues the legacy with their charitable efforts to ease hunger and fight AIDS in Africa and the U.S.

How you can help:

USA for Africa
We Are The World 20th Anniversary DVD from Amazon
Download from iTunes: Song | Video
Leap of faith
CNN's Isha Sesay profiles a girl who has helped provide medicine and education to mothers and children in Kenya. Video

How you can help:

Compassion International
International Children's Fun
Kids Alive International
Harlem kids give Congo help
Students at the Harlem Children's Zone are no strangers to challenges, growing up in some of New York's toughest neighborhoods. But they've been fortunate recipients of help from their community. Now, they want to give back to peers facing extreme difficulties of their own a continent away in the Congo Video

How you can help:

Harlem Children's Zone
U.S. Fund's Inspired Gifts program
The International Rescue Committee
Outreach International
SOS Children's Villages
Africa's hidden famine
Books are so rare in many African countries that children celebrate receiving them as if it were Christmas morning, says Brad Mattson, a manager for Books for Africa, a nonprofit group that ships donated books to African countries. Full story

How you can help:

Books for Africa
PEN Trust
The world's refugee crisis
The number of uprooted people across the world dropped slightly last year, but new displacement this year in conflict zones like Pakistan, Somalia and Sri Lanka so far "has already more than offset the decline," the U.N. refugee agency said. Full story | Angelina Jolie's mission | Commentary | Video Video | Donate via text

How you can help:

UNHCR: The U.N. Refugee Agency
International Committee of the Red Cross
Refugees International
International Rescue Committee
American Refugee Committee
Oxfam America
Mapendo International
European Commission Humanitarian Aid
More ways to help
Refugees in Pakistan
As Pakistan's military offensive against the Taliban along its western border with Afghanistan continues, a flood of civilians from the region are fleeing the area into other parts of Pakistan. Full story

How you can help:

Save the Children (U.S.) | Save the Children (U.K.)
World Vision
MercyCorps
Khpal Kor Foundation
One hour to help the poor
A poverty-stricken school in India is benefiting from a campaign asking people to donate one hour's salary to students in need. Video Video

How you can help:

Asha for Education
Help the Helpless
Culturally sensitive birthing
Half a million women die in childbirth worldwide every year -- most in poor, developing countries. A new U.N. Population Fund program is helping to change that trend.
Video Video

How you can help:

U.N. Population Fund
UNICEF
Getting help from a Legend
Helping to fight world poverty, musician John Legend's Show Me Campaign has teamed up with with economist Jeffrey Sachs' Millennium Promise organization to provide clean water and improved farming techniques to some of the poorest communities in Africa.

How you can help:

Show Me Campaign
Fighting poverty with music
Some of the world's most gifted songwriters cleared their schedules for a weeklong songwriter's retreat, where 100 percent of the song royalties from CompassionArt goes to the work of supporting the poorest of poor around the world.Video Video

How you can help:

CompassionArt
A year after earthquake, world remembers
On May 12, 2008, a massive earthquake in China left nearly 90,000 dead or missing, more than 374,000 injured and at least 15 million people displaced. A year after the quake changed the lives of millions of people, China is still counting the toll. Full story | Helping quake kids stand tall Video

How you can help:

Red Cross of China
World Vision
Direct Relief International
Mercy Corps
Bringing two worlds together
There are an estimated 2.5 million orphans in Uganda and more than a third of the population doesn't have access to safe drinking water. But one American activist is doing her part in providing mosquito nets, clean water, a loving home and hope.
Full story | Video Video

How you can help:

Ugandan American Partnership Organization
Children of Uganda
Pearl Ministries
Rebuilding a school
At the Abadir Primary School in Ethiopia, the rebuilding of the dilapidated building gives the children a chance for a real education and the hope for a brighter future. Video Video

How you can help:

Children of Ethiopia Education Fund
Ethiopia Reads
CHILDREN: Charities and resources
Giving shelter
ShelterBox is a life-saving box containing tents and medical supplies for disaster victims and to date, 80,000 of them have been shipped to survivors in 57 countries. Video Video | Inventor of ShelterBox

How you can help:

ShelterBox
Earthquake rocks Italy
Survivors of the deadly earthquake in Italy face the prospect of rebuilding their shattered lives after thousands of homes were demolished and the death toll at nearly 300. Clowns in tent city Video | Survivors mark somber Easter

How you can help:

American Red Cross | Italian Red Cross | British Red Cross
The National Italian American Foundation
Operation Blessing International
Save the Children
Helping the maimed
The organization Doctors Without Borders has set up a project in Jordan to treat Iraqi war victims. Video Video

How you can help:

Doctors Without Borders
Global Medical Relief Fund
Unraveling autism
Autism is an often mysterious disorder that affects an estimated six out of every 1,000 children in the U.S., with the number of cases rising. Around World Austim Day, CNN took a look at the latest research and also the personal stories of living with and loving someone with autism. In Depth: Autism

How you can help:

Autism Research Institute
Autism Society of America
Autism Speaks
Autism Source
Rowing across an ocean alone
For nearly three months, Paul Ridley, 25, has been rowing up to twelve hours a day on a 2,950-mile journey to raise cancer awareness and hopefully raise money for cancer research. Full story

How you can help:

Row For Hope
Yale Cancer Center
Begging for care
International donors have spent at least $15 billion on aid in Afghanistan in the last few years. Still, one in five children will not make it to their 5th birthday. CNN's Paula Newton visits one children's hospital in Kabul to find out why. Video Video

How you can help:

Save the Children
UNICEF
Making noise for women
One is a Bosnian mother. Another is a woman who runs a school for girls in Mali. A third is a widowed AIDS activist in Vietnam. All three, however, have one thing in common: They made a powerful noise. Video Video

How you can help:

UNIFEM
CARE
Eradicating a parasite
The parasitic Guinea worm has caused millions of people to suffer, especially those who drink unfiltered water that allow the parasite to enter the body. But prevention and education techniques are cutting that number down -- and health officials hope the disease will be entirely wiped out soon. Video Video | Q&A: Wiping out a disease Video

How you can help:

The Carter Center
Health and Development International
WaterAid
Cricket for change
Some believe the game of cricket can help build cultural bridges and preach religious tolerance. Video Video

How you can help:

Cricket Without Boundaries
The Lord's Taverners
World Malaria Day
Malaria claims almost a million lives each year. But a simple prevention tool is one way you can help -- low-cost mosquito bed nets prevent the disease from being transmitted. As World Malaria Day is marked on April 25, find out more. Learn more about malaria

How you can help:

Nothing But Nets
Malaria No More
PATH
Somalia on the edge of collapse
Pirates prowl off its seashores. Gunmen roam its streets. And half of its population needs humanitarian assistance. Somalia is on the edge of collapse, and aid groups are trying to help, but violence inside the chaotic country has already claimed the lives of two relief workers. Video Video

How you can help:

World Food Program
International Medical Corps (IMC)
World Vision
India's crushed slums
Many Westerners got their first glimpse of India's poor in the recent hit film, "Slumdog Millionaire." The film depicts India's poor living in suffocating squalor. Life for India’s real poor isn’t much better and a controversial move in one Indian city is making things worse, some say. Full Story | Video Video

ActionAid
Robin Raina Foundation
Global Greengrants Fund
ASHA
Smile Pinki
Pinki Sonkar was afraid to smile. The shy girl grew up in an Indian village with a deformity that made her an outcast, even within her own family. Today Sonkar is not only smiling -- she’s the subject of an Oscar-winning documentary Video Video | Interview with “Smile Pinki” director Video

How you can help:

Smile Train
CURE International
Wildfires in Australia
Australia's raging wildfires killed at least 170 people, decimating massive spans of land and leaving thousands of residents homeless, creating situation officials said they'd never experienced. Full story

How you can help:

Salvation Army
Australian Red Cross
GlobalGiving
'Nightmarish' situation in Sri Lanka
In northern Sri Lanka, government forces and Tamil rebels are locked in battle. Thousands of civilians, including children, are thought to be trapped by the fighting. Full story

How you can help:

International Committee of the Red Cross
UNICEF
Doctors Without Borders
Afghan girls attacked for attending school
Two girls were attacked with acid on their way to school in Afghanistan last November. They say they are more determined than ever to get an education -- despite continued threats. "I have to do something for my country, I must got to school," one told CNN. Full Story | Video Video

How you can help:

Relief International
Save the Children
Unclean water and cholera
The Zimbabwean government declared a national emergency in the face of a cholera outbreak that has killed hundreds of people. Unclean drinking water and a poor sanitation system are blamed for the spread of the disease. Story | 'Elephant pump' fights cholera Video | What is cholera?

Pump Aid
The Plan
Oxfam America
Save the Children
International Committee of the Red Cross
UNICEF
World Health Organization
World struggles for hunger solution
The global food market's shelves are getting bare and hunger activists say it will get worse. Why are so many people starving and what, if anything, can be done to eradicate hunger? Full story | Commentary | Interview Video | Video Video | Blog

U.S.
Feeding America
Atlanta Community Food Bank
Houston Food Bank
Los Angeles Regional Food Bank
Northwest Harvest
Forgotten Harvest
Food & Friends
Community Food Bank of New Jersey
Additional Regional Food Banks
International
World Food Program | Wall Against Hunger
UNICEF
Meds & Foods for Kids
Food for the Hungry
Bread for the World
Stoves for Darfur
A Maryland teenager is trying to show how a $30 stove can save the lives of women in the Sudan’s murderous Darfur region. Full Story

Stoves for Darfur
CHF International
Disabled musicians soar when music plays
One band member is blind. Another suffers from Down syndrome. Several others struggle with other disabilities. But when their band, “Rudely Interrupted,” takes to the stage, they have no trouble expressing themselves. Video Video

Lord Mayor’s Charitable Foundation
Best Buddies
ChairScholars Foundation
CNN heroes
How one person can make a difference: Hear from the experts. full story

Boys & Girls Clubs of America
CARE
DoSomething.org
Goodwill Industries International
Habitat for Humanity International
KaBOOM!

Lions Clubs International
Easter Seals
United Way of America
Volunteers of America
YMCA

Youssif's new wish
Two years ago, masked men in Iraq doused Youssif with gasoline and set his face on fire. He was just 4 years old at the time. Now, after a dozen surgeries, Youssif is coming out of his shell. He even has a new career goal: become a doctor. Full story | Video Video

Children's Burn Foundation
One man's heartache leads to new mission
It all started for Miquel Rodriguez when he lost his six-month-old son. Twenty years later, he has found a new family to raise -- over 600 street kids Video Video

VisionTrust
Children’s Hunger Fund / Mercy Network Peru
UNICEF
Aid groups try to reach Congo war victims
Thousands of people have been displaced by fighting in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Aid groups are trying to reach them but relief efforts have been complicated by violence. Full Story | Video Video

UNICEF
World Vision
Doctors Without Borders
International Committee of the Red Cross
Oxfam

Helping our heroes
The nation will celebrated Veterans Day on November 11. But veterans and their families need more than honor. They need help to cope with the terrible costs of war. AC360: Back from the Battle Video | Full Story | Veterans in Focus

Iraq and Afghanistan veterans of America
Veterans of Foreign Wars
AMVETS
Veterans for America

ReMIND
The ALS Association
When Duty Calls
Other military charities

Kabul street kids scrounge for survival
Banafsha is only 11 but she is already the breadwinner for a family of eight. She is one of an estimated 60,000 street kids who roam the streets of Kabul, Afghanistan scrounging for survival. Full Story | Video Video

Aschiana Foundation | International | U.S.

Taking on a tiny killer
It prefers to strike at night. It claims more than a million lives a year. And it is so lethal that it kills a child in Africa every 30 seconds. But one grassroots charity found a way to take on this tiny killer with a shockingly simple solution. Story

NothingButNets.net

Waging war on women in the Congo
Thousands of women and girls have been systematically raped during a 10-year war in the Democratic Republic of Congo. International aid groups are trying to halt the violence, but the world has been slow to respond. The leader of one aid group, shaken by her encounters with Congolese women, could barely find the right words to describe what she saw. Full Story | One woman's story | Javier Bardem: ‘Vampires’ terrorizing Congo

Cholera in the capital
Zimbabwe has been shaken by political turmoil and a collapsing economy. The African country is now dealing with a new threat: a deadly outbreak of cholera. Video

Save the Children: US | UK
UNICEF

One man's surprise harvest
Tony Madone has donated his crops to charity for 13 years. The Colorado farmer gives to food banks, which are suffering shortages across the country. But when Madone recently fell ill, he discovered he had reaped an unexpected harvest elsewhere. Video

Feeding America
Society of St. Andrew
Houston Food Bank
The Food Project
Emergency Food Network

India suffers worst flooding in 50 years
The desperate looks on the faces above only hint at the scale of the tragedy. The worst flooding in five decades in Bihar, India, has killed at least 2,000 people, displaced millions and destroyed 100 villages. Authorities say relief groups are overwhelmed – and more rain is expected. Full story | Video

World Vision
Save the Children
Catholic Relief Services
UNICEF
International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies

Aid groups could be overwhelmed
The next major disaster could overwhelm some U.S. relief groups, a government watchdog group warns. Full story

The Salvation Army
Catholic Charities USA

Ike's devastation reaches Midwest
Hurricane Ike may have dissipated, but millions of Americans who stood in its path are still suffering. Ike’s initial toll: dozens of people killed, thousands with no drinking water and millions without power. Ike’s fury was felt as far south as Texas and as north as Illinois. Full story | Ike's fury: Video | iReport.com: Ike Shatter's Texas

Ways you can help

A call to service
Barack Obama and John McCain will appeared together in New York City to talk about service. The presidential candidates participated in a half-hour forum at Columbia University on civic engagement in the post-9/11 world. The event, sponsored by Time magazine, was hosted by Time’s managing editor, Rick Stengel and PBS’s Judy Woodruff. The forum was organized by ServiceNation, a coalition of more than 100 groups that offer Americans opportunities for service. Obama-McCain Unite | National Service

ServiceNation

Foreclosure intervention
When Mike and Kristin Bertrand lost their Los Angeles, California, home to foreclosure, they joined thousands of Americans who have suffered the same fate. But they also found a novel approach to dealing with their loss, one they’re now sharing with others. VIDEO

Here are some ways you can help:

California Community Foundation
Los Angeles Neighborhood Housing Services
Catholic Charities USA
Holocaust siblings reunite
Irene Famulak has not seen her family since 1942. Nazi soldiers barged into her Ukrainian home and took her parents and five siblings. Famulak was forced to work in a labor camp and never saw her family again – until now. Full Story | Video

Here are some ways you can help:

American Red Cross
International Tracing Service
Sale of 1 house will help 30 villages
One day while driving with her father, Hannah Salwen noticed a Mercedes stopped next to a homeless man sitting on the curb. The conversation that followed led to a remarkable decision by the Salwen family. Full Story

Here are some ways you can help:

The Hunger Project
Helping our children
Children are our most precious but vulnerable resource. However, they face daily threats from violence, disease and disasters. CNN looks at the dangers they face around the globe and how you can help them survive. In-depth: The Survival Project

Here are some ways you can help:

UNICEF
Save the Children
World Food Programme
Fire crews battle wildfires, heat and exhaustion
High winds and triple-digit temperatures continued to fan wildfires across Northern California. Thousands of residents have been forced to flee from their homes as firefighters struggled to contain at least 300 fires burning throughout the state. Full Story | iReport.com

Here are some ways you can help:

American Red Cross
Remembering our troops
They honor their country when they choose to risk their lives in faraway places. We honor them with vigils at cemeteries and Fourth of July holiday parades. Learn about one remarkable soldier whose love for his country inspired him to win the nation’s highest award for valor. Casualties: Who they are | iReport | Full Story

Here are some ways you can help:

Fisher House
Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors (TAPS)
Other military charities
Pet owners face tough financial choices
Tough economic times aren’t just affecting homeowners. They’re forcing some pet owners to make brutal choices. Full Story | Video

Here are some ways you can help:

Alliance for Stray Animals and People
The Humane Society of the United States
Petfinder.com
Orphan boy lives in garbage dump
Most children have a home. Khin Zaw Lin has a garbage dump. The seven-year-old Lin lives off of discarded food in a trash dump near the Myanmar border. CNN correspondent Dan Rivers met with Lin to find out why. Full Story

Here are some ways you can help:

Mae Tao Clinic
Save the Children
Global Giving: Myanmar
World Vision
Charities forced to do more with less
People turn to charities when they need help but where do charities turn when they need help? Some of the nation’s biggest charities are trying to figure that out. They report a surge in demand while their donations are slacking off. The people asking for help, though, don’t fit the profile of soup kitchens patrons. Most are working poor who are squeezed by high food and fuel prices and the foreclosure crisis. Full Story | Video

Here are some ways you can help:

Atlanta Community Food Bank
United Food Bank
America’s Second Harvest
China: Quake victims need millions of tents
At least 5 million people have been left homeless by a massive earthquake that struck China. Earthquake victims have been helped, though, by China’s citizens and the international community. Story

Here are some ways you can help:

Some relief organizations working in China
U.N. chief: Myanmar to admit all aid workers
Three weeks after a cyclone killed at least 130,000 people in Myanmar, the country’s ruling junta announced it would admit all aid workers regardless of nationalities. Full Story

Here are some ways you can help:

Some relief organizations working in Myanmar
Readers respond: living with autism
CNN marked World Autism Awareness Day this past week by taking an unprecedented look at this mysterious disorder. The public’s response was quick and heartfelt. Readers gave moving accounts of living with and loving someone with autism. We share some of these stories from CNN iReporters, including one from the mother of an autistic boy who says she received a "a slice of pure heaven in her home." Full Story | Autism in-depth | Autistic girl connects with animals

Here are some ways you can help:

Autism Research Institute
Autism Society of America
Autism Speaks
Jacob’s Ladder
Autism Source
HALO
Female veterans battle sexual, psychological trauma
War is no longer the business of men. A record number of American women are serving combat support roles in Iraq and Afghanistan. A significant number of female veterans return home battling a new enemy: "military sexual trauma." full story

Here are some ways you can help:

Operation Homefront
Armed Services YMCA of the USA
National Military Family Association
Helping veterans
Military veterans face a number of obstacles on their return home, from finding a job, continuing their education to sometimes dealing with life-changing injuries. Here are just a few ways to help veterans and military families. full story

Here are some ways you can help:

Fisher House | Freedom Calls
American Legion Legacy Scholarship Fund
Operation Education 
When Duty Calls
New Orleans Recovery
For some parts of New Orleans, rebuilding is still a dream more than two years after Hurricane Katrina. Once marked by dense housing, the Lower 9th Ward especially was heavily damaged by the storm. There has been little rebuilding done there since the storm, although some people have been living in trailers in the area.

Here are some ways you can help:

Make It Right | Rebuilding Together
Greater New Orleans Foundation
HOMEAID | Habitat for Humanity
Foundation for the Mid South
World AIDS Day
World AIDS Day is marked each year on December 1 to raise awareness and remember the disease's victims. full story

Here are some ways you can help:

UNAIDS - Joint U.N. Program on HIV/AIDS
AMFAR
International HIV/AIDS Alliance
The Body
ActionAid International
Medecins Sans Frontiers International
Bangladesh flooding
Thousands of people died and countless others were left homeless after a cyclone rampaged along Bangladesh's coast. full story

Here are some ways you can help:

International Red Cross and Red Crescent
Save the Children | CaritasCARE
Catholic Relief Services | UNICEF
World Food Programme | UNDP
Zimbabwe crisis
In September 2007, Zimbabwe faced a desperate economic situation that crippled the country and left many starving. Video

Here are some ways you can help:

Africare | CARE
UNHCR | UNICEF
Mercycorps | OXFAM
Worldvision | Childreach/PLAN
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CNN MEDICAL UNIT
Elizabeth Cohen travels with Nadine Devilme and Junior Alexis from Haiti to Miami, Florida, for them to finally be reunited with Baby Jenny, who was thought to be an orphan when she was rescued from the rubble and flown to a hospital in Miami. International Rescue Committee is helping this family and others reconnect, as they and other charities focus on reuniting families separated by the devastating earthquake. Full Story
 International Rescue Committee
 Project Medishare Fund for Baby Jenny
 
LARRY KING LIVE
Ashley Judd, Lucy Liu, Lisa Ling and survivors of human trafficking discussed the shocking business of modern day slavery on a special hour of Larry King Live. You can report a tip and learn more about Human Trafficking by calling the National Human Trafficking Resource Center Hotline, operated by Polaris Project: 1-888-373-7888. Lucy Liu: Human Slavery Is Real, We Must Stop It
 Polaris Project
 Free the Slaves
 Anti-Slavery International
 More from the Larry King Live blog
 
ANDERSON COOPER 360°
Last year, Impact Your World noted the twitter race to a million followers between Ashton Kutcher and CNN Breaking News, as both sides pledged 10,000 malaria nets if they won. The AC360 blog follows up on these pledges and how the attention this placed on Malaria determined a surprise winner to the race: the people of Senegal who recently received more than 89,000 malaria nets. Video
 Malaria No More
 More from the AC360 blog
 
AMANPOUR
Christiane Amanpour talks with Actor Ben Affleck about his launch of the Eastern Congo Initiative, an organization focused on helping communities in the Democratic Republic of Congo rebuild and recover from the decade of war. Video
 Eastern Congo Initiative
 More from the Amanpour Blog
 
TAKE ACTION: VOLUNTEER
You can make a difference by offering your time. These organizations will help you find a cause that inspires you and fits your schedule. Bad economy good for volunteerism Video
 Charity Guide
 Corporation for National Service
 Serve.org
 USA Freedom Corps for Youth
 Volunteering in America
 VolunteerMatch
 
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