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

Over one billion people do not have clean drinking water. An organization known as charity: water is working to ensure that everyone in the world has access to clean water.

Blood:Water Mission was founded in the name of Jesus Christ’s sacrificial gifts of blood and water, and its primary goals are to help rid the African continent of AIDS and provide clean drinking water to the poverty stricken people of Africa.

Highlights from the Collective Lens Flickr group.

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.

Chan Bros
As a child, Chan Bros was stricken with polio, and his legs were left too weak to support him. Unfortunately, in his home country of Cambodia about 50,000 people have been left disabled by polio or similar diseases as a result of the destruction of the health care system during the Khmer Rouge regime. [...]

Volunteers devote time and energy to help promote healthcare and education to the Nu ethnic group in China.