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California-based nonprofit Burma Humanitarian Mission (BHM) was formed in 1999 to aid the internally displaced Karen people in eastern Burma (called Myanmar by current government). It is estimated that 2 to 4 million people are displaced in Burma or in surrounding countries by the military regime that governs the country.
The World Health Organization ranks Burma as 190 [...]

Rapper, MAGZ (a.k.a. Shelvin Francis), was chosen by UNICEF (United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund) to represent their campaign for global AIDS awareness. MAGZ recorded a single, “People Are You Listening“, specifically for the UNICEF campaign.

While many charities have pulled out of Iraq because of security concerns, “Hearts for Baghdad” is a humanitarian program administered by military base chaplains at the Civilian Military Operations Center (CMOC) in Baghdad.
Hearts for Baghdad delivers diapers, personal hygiene items, shampoo, lotions, medicine, shoes, school supplies, soccer balls and other needed items to local Iraqis. [...]

Austin, Texas-based A Glimmer of Hope Foundation (AGHF) was founded in 2000 when Donna and Philip Berber funded AGHF with a $100-million endowment from their personal funds to provide aid to Ethiopia, and is now providing programs for London and Austin at-risk youth. Business Week magazine has listed the Berbers on their “50 Most Generous Philanthropists” list.
From the year 2000 [...]

USA-based (Minnesota) Starkey Hearing Foundation is a charity that delivers more than 20,000 hearing aids each year through more than 100 hearing missions around the world. Founded in 1973, The Foundation also supports health awareness, research and education. Starkey Hearing Foundation’s website has info on volunteering or donating used hearing aids.
Since the year 2000, over [...]

Keep A Child Alive provides HIV/AIDS medical treatment funding to 12 clinical and orphan care sites in India, Kenya, Mali, Rwanda, South Africa, Uganda and Zimbabwe. Well over half of the people in the world infected by HIV/AIDS live in sub-Saharan Africa, including about 89% of the world’s children infected by HIV/AIDS.
Headquartered in New York, [...]

Los Angeles-based nonprofit Mercy Airlift was established in 1968 to assist the immediate needs of human beings devastated by natural disasters and emergencies worldwide.
Mercy Airlift collects, warehouses and delivers food, medicine, relief supplies, medical and relief personnel and volunteers to disasters around the world, including famines, floods, earthquakes, droughts, explosions and civil conflicts. Temporary and [...]

Why hasn’t soccer become as popular in America as it is around the world? It’s widely accepted in America that soccer is the number one sport in the world, but in America, soccer might rank anywhere from 7 - 10 of the most popular spectator sports, with American football being the most popular.