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

Blog Action Day 2008 is on October 15th, and this year’s topic is poverty. Join thousands of bloggers from around the world to bring attention to those in need.

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.

Global Justice for Burma is launching an international campaign to bring Burma’s General Than Shwe and the military regime in Burma to justice by referring them to the International Criminal Court.

As photographers, we are often in the unfortunate position of taking from subjects less fortunate than ourselves without giving anything back.

Highlights from the Collective Lens Flickr group.

Mercy Corp recently posted a slideshow of powerful images of the earthquake, the survivors, and efforts to rebuild.

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.

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.