All is not lost when people such as these give their time and resources so readily to help children that are most at need. Two agencies. and individuals, that fit together admirably to try to meet some of the needs of children of less than fortunate circumstance are People Improvement Organization (PIO) and Kids International Dental Services.(KIDS)

” We provide dental care to children in orphanages where they come after being abandoned by parents, family members. They are forgotten children of sex slavery, dead parents of AIDS, gang violence, street accidents. We have seen and treated over 1000 children during our stay in Cambodia”.

Across the world, traffickers supply millions of human beings for use in forced labor activities such as domestic service, or work in rice fields, sweatshops, cocoa plantations, or mines. Some are trafficked into the commercial sex industry. Trafficking touches every single nation – America, Europe, Africa, Asia & more. There are an estimated 27 million people enslaved in our world right now. And human trafficking is the third most profitable illegal activity, right under arms dealing and drug trade.

Orphfund is raising money to build orphanages in Haiti, and needs your help.

The Municipal Dump in Phnom Penh was the scene of abject poverty and hardship. It closed its gates in 2009 but is this the end of the story, what has happened to the people who worked as scavengers on the dump. The new dump has been moved several miles outside of the city and NO scavenging is to be allowed.

The idea of Stella*Finance is rather simple: to provide a direct link between supporters and institutions offering basic education for those in need. As a registered charity, it raises money at various fundraising events, such as charity auctions and concerts, as well as by collecting in-kind and financial contributions and promoting and administering an individual child sponsorship scheme.

In Djenne we met with Amadou, a local man who has taken action to solve the town’s orphan problem. Amadou and other community members recently started an organization to help place the orphans with nearby families that can afford to take in an extra child. The organization wants to take one step further and build an orphanage for their community.

The sport-for-good community isn’t using cameras to display celebrity lives and high-profile action shots; this community is much more interested in documenting how we can use sports as an agent for social change. Young people, photographers, athletes, and activists are coming together to show how they “sport for good.”

A recent photo essay on the new burn magazine website creatively portrays the life of a girl diagnosed with diabetes.

Many things that happen in our world make me shudder, but few disturb me as much as the use of child soldiers. Every few months, I see a major news organization run a story on child militias, but for the most part, the terrible things being done to these children are ignored by the media. For those who don’t know, children are used as soldiers across the world in conflicts. Amnesty International estimates there are a quarter of a million child soldiers in the world today.

People of colour in South Africa, through the apartheid years, had limited opportunity and access to formal education. Ukulapha was recently formed with the overall objective of facilitating the growth, development, and empowerment of previously disadvantaged and abused South African people.