JOURNAL: MAKING A DIFFERENCE

$10- Can protect one young person in Africa from HIV/AIDS by providing him or her with a year's worth of safe-sex education and access to counseling and testing

YouthAIDS Population Services International
1120 19th Street N.W. Suite 600
Washington, D.C. 20036


$15- Provides a poor Chinese child with a school kit that includes a year's worth of supplies: notebooks, pencils, pencil sharpers, eraser, ruler, crayons, colored paper, and book bag

Free the Children
P.O. Box 32099
Hartford, CT 06150-2099


$20- Covers the cost of manuals on good nutrition for ten mothers attending a literacy class in Colombia allowing them to simultaneously learn to read and prepare healthy meals for their families

Proliteracy Worldwide
1320 Jamesville Avenue
Syracuse, NY 13210


$25- ensures that 500 pounds of groceries will be distributed to soup kitchens, food pantries, churches, women's shelters, after school programs and Community Kitchens across America

American's Second Harvest
35 East Wacker Drive, #2000
Chicago, IL 60601


$60- buys an Armenian family a Flock of Hope: chicks, duckings, and goslings, whose eggs provide food and extra income. Recipients then pass on the gift of animal offspring to other strugglings families, spreading the benefits

Heifer International
P.O. Box 8058
Little Rock, AR 72203


$75- purchases a knitting machine and vocational skills training for Rwandan woman, who can then generate income by selling the clothing she makes.

Woman for Woman International
1850 M Street N.W. Suite 1090
Washington, D.C. 20036

$100- pays a teacher's salary for four months in a Afghan school, enabling woman previously banned from teaching by the Taliban to update their skills and support their families

Help the Afghan Children
8603 Westwood Center Drive, Suite 230
Vienna, VA 22182


$150- buys medicals supplies: including thermometers and watches to check pulses for nine healthcare promoters who will provide medical are to 3,500 villagers in the rural Himalayas of India

Child Family Health International
995 Market Street, Suite 1104
San Francisco, CA 94103