Can multinational distribution channels be used for social improvement? The ColaLife Campaign hopes to engage Coca Cola to provide needed medicines around the world.

The founder of Creative Corners: The Global Arts Project discusses volunteering while traveling abroad.

How you can help Focal Point Aid win a grant from American Express to build classrooms in South Africa.

Highlights from the Collective Lens Flickr group.

Thousands of children are being sold or trafficked within and across national borders in South Asia. According to United Nations, more than one million children are subject to sexual exploitation in Asia alone.

A powerful call to action from GirlEffect.org

Horrible as all this may sound, it is important to understand that for many children, earning a living or supplementing their family’s income is a matter of survival. Slogans like “Stop Child Labor” embody romantic and ultimately impractical notions when it comes to places like Bangladesh.

Julien Harneis’ photos from the Democratic Republic of the Congo tell us a story of hardship and hope. He is in Eastern DRC, near the Rwandan border, as UNICEF Chief of Field Operations working to alieve the problems of displaced populations, including child soldiers, sexual violence, poor education, unclean drinking water, and health and sanitation issues.

It is estimated that there are over 100 million orphans and street children in today’s world and this enormous figure continues to grow rapidly.

To most, the hungry are but permanent fixtures in the national landscape. That most people are so used to hunger and have been desensitized to it is indeed very troubling.