Who are Americans?

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), the UN Refugee Agency, has issued an Iraq Situation Update for March 2008.
The UNHCR estimates the number of Iraqi who have settled in other nearby countries as:
Syria - 1.2 to 1.4 million
Jordan - 450,000 - 500,000

DAY 1 OF RITU’S DIARY
Worldwide, over a billion people … 1 out of every 6 human beings worldwide … live in extreme poverty … less than $1/day. What does living on a $1 a day look like? Ritu Sharma Fox, President and Co-founder of Women Thrive Worldwide, traveled to Nicaragua, one of the poorest countries in [...]

The Mountain Fund (Albuquerque, NM) is a nonprofit that works to support human rights, environmental progress and responsible tourism in developing mountain communities around the world. The Mountain Fund is a global coalition of grassroots nonprofit and non-governmental organizations that provides marketing, organizational consulting, networking tools, financial, administrative and technical assistance to its Partner Organizations.
The partner [...]

Who are the world’s most powerful women? A 2007 study by Forbes Magazine lists the 10 most powerful women as:
1. Angela Merkel, Germany, Chancellor
2. Wu Yi, China, Vice Premier

Potters For Peace (PFP) is a USA-based nonprofit that helps potters in the developing world produce and market low cost ceramic water filters. PFP originally began in Nicaragua in 1986 and primarily works in the countries of Central America. Makers of the filters not only earn a better living, but help provide clean potable water [...]

Cover Africa is a nonprofit organization founded in 2006 by Cornell University (New York) students to take an active role in the prevention of malaria … a disease that takes the life of one African child every 30 seconds.
The goals of Cover Africa include distributing bed nets, increasing awareness on campus and beyond, and strategizing [...]

Where are the world’s densest (most congested) cities? A Forbes magazine study shows 16 of the densest cities are in Asia. Mumbai (formerly Bombay), India is #1 on the list. Five of the top 20 densest cities were located in India. Four were located in China. How many cities from the USA or Europe were on the list?

International Kids Fund (Miami, Florida) is a charity that has helped more than 125 foreign children with urgent healthcare needs in receiving expert medical care from specialists at Holtz Children’s Hospital. The children come primarily from Latin America and the Caribbean.
International Kids Fund (IKF) was founded in 2001 by Jackson Memorial Foundation, which is the principal [...]