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India’s crushed slums
Many Westerners got their first glimpse of India's poor in the recent hit film, "Slumdog Millionaire." The film depicts India's poor living in suffocating squalor. Life for India’s real poor isn’t much better and a controversial move in one Indian city is making things worse, some say. Full Story | Video Video

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ActionAid
Robin Raina Foundation
Global Greengrants Fund
ASHA

  
Stoves for Darfur
A Maryland teenager is trying to show how a $30 stove can save the lives of women in the Sudan’s murderous Darfur region. Full Story

Stoves for Darfur
CHF International
Disabled musicians soar when music plays
One band member is blind. Another suffers from Down syndrome. Several others struggle with other disabilities. But when their band, “Rudely Interrupted,” takes to the stage, they have no trouble expressing themselves. Video Video

Lord Mayor’s Charitable Foundation
Best Buddies
ChairScholars Foundation
Unclean water and cholera
The Zimbabwean government declared a national emergency in the face of a cholera outbreak that has killed hundreds of people. Unclean drinking water and a poor sanitation system are blamed for the spread of the disease. Story | 'Elephant pump' fights cholera Video | What is cholera?

Pump Aid
The Plan
Oxfam America
Save the Children
International Committee of the Red Cross
UNICEF
World Health Organization
World struggles for hunger solution
The global food market's shelves are getting bare and hunger activists say it will get worse. Why are so many people starving and what, if anything, can be done to eradicate hunger? Full story | Commentary | Interview Video | Video Video | Blog

U.S.
Feeding America
Atlanta Community Food Bank
Houston Food Bank
Los Angeles Regional Food Bank
Northwest Harvest
Forgotten Harvest
Food & Friends
Community Food Bank of New Jersey
Additional Regional Food Banks
International
World Food Program | Wall Against Hunger
UNICEF
Meds & Foods for Kids
Food for the Hungry
Bread for the World
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IMPACT UPDATE
Many were touched by Brenden Foster, a terminally ill boy, with his last wish: to feed the homeless. After he died, his mother visited their food bank and saw this wish become a reality.
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