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Refugee Relief International (RRI), based in Woodside, California, was founded in 1974 as a nonprofit to provide medical care to the less fortunate people around the world. Most of the volunteer doctors, nurses and medics of RRI are military veterans who have experience operating in dangerous environments where other humanitarian agencies will not go.
Refugee Relief [...]

It’s interesting to look at the most popular searches by Americans on search engines such as google, yahoo and msn. Below are lists of most popular searches in categories of fastest rising, famous celebrities, overall, sports, diets, movies, TV shows, recipes, and “who is”.
Fastest Rising search phrases (USA) - google 
iphone - webkinz - tmz - transformers - youtube [...]

CURE International’s founders, Dr. Scott and Mrs. Sally Harrison, participated in medical missions to Malawi, Africa in 1986 to perform spine surgery and teach higher level orthopedic surgery skills to local medical practitioners. The Harrison’s saw the kids with birth defects suffer physically and emotionally from disfiguring birth defects. Often the kids were viewed as [...]

How does the percentage of women elected to America’s Government compare to other countries around the world? While women in American have been gaining influence lately, according to the International Parliamentary Union (IPU) report on October 31, 2007, the USA lags far behind many countries in terms of women’s representation in the lower or single House of their [...]

Clear Path International (Dorset, Vermont) was originally formed as a landmine and bomb removal organization by friends with relief-work experience in Vietnam and Asia, but later was organized as a nonprofit to assist the victims of landmines. In southeast Asia, an accident related to landmines or unexploded bombs occurs every day.
Major focus areas today are [...]

The Nwagni Project is a student-run organization on Albion College’s Michigan campus to assist the villagers in Batchingou, Cameroon. In January, 2006 a group of Albion college students travelled to Cameroon with two Albion professors, one whose home village is Batchingou. The students learned the village school had been closed because of deteriorating conditions and [...]

Seva Foundation (Berkeley, California) was formed in 1978 as a nonprofit to alleviate suffering caused by disease and poverty in developing countries around the world and for native Americans.
Seva currently has programs to prevent blindness and restore sight in India, Nepal, Tibet, Cambodia, Bangladesh, Egypt, Tanzania and Guatemala. Seva-supported programs served over 500,000 people in [...]

Women in the U.S.A. have a long history of being able to vote and being elected or appointed to responsible positions in the American political system.  Their influence in the U.S. government has been growing in recent years. A record 90 women were elected to serve in Congress in 2007. Below is a timeline of some of the [...]