 Ways to Impact Your World every day
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Most children have a home. Khin Zaw Lin has a garbage dump. The seven-year-old Lin lives off of discarded food in a trash dump near the Myanmar border. CNN correspondent Dan Rivers met with Lin to find out why.
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• Save the Children
• Global Giving: Myanmar
• World Vision
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People turn to charities when they need help but where do charities turn when they need help? Some of the nation’s biggest charities are trying to figure that out. They report a surge in demand while their donations are slacking off. The people asking for help, though, don’t fit the profile of soup kitchens patrons. Most are working poor who are squeezed by high food and fuel prices and the foreclosure crisis.
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• Atlanta Community Food Bank
• United Food Bank
• America’s Second Harvest
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At least 5 million people have been left homeless by a massive earthquake that struck China. Earthquake victims have been helped, though, by China’s citizens and the international community. Story
• Some relief organizations working in China
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Three weeks after a cyclone killed at least 130,000 people in Myanmar, the country’s ruling junta announced it would admit all aid workers regardless of nationalities.
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• Some relief organizations working in Myanmar
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A lethal Midwest tornado, with winds of up to 175 miles per hour, killed at least 22 people – including a mother protecting her son. The storm ravaged parts of Oklahoma, Missouri and Georgia. States of emergency were declared in Oklahoma and Georgia counties.
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• American Red Cross
• Salvation Army/U.S.
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CNN marked World Autism Awareness Day this past week by taking an unprecedented look at this mysterious disorder. The public’s response was quick and heartfelt. Readers gave moving accounts of living with and loving someone with autism. We share some of these stories from CNN iReporters, including one from the mother of an autistic boy who says she received a "a slice of pure heaven in her home."
Full Story | Autism in-depth | Autistic girl connects with animals
• Autism Research Institute
• Autism Society of America
• Autism Speaks
• Jacob’s Ladder
• Autism Source
• HALO
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War is no longer the business of men. A record number of American women are serving combat support roles in Iraq and Afghanistan. A significant number of female veterans return home battling a new enemy: "military sexual trauma."
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• Operation Homefront
• Armed Services YMCA of the USA
• National Military Family Association
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Thousands of residents are displaced and hundreds dead in Kenya following a deadly election dispute. Kenyans face a desperate economic situation and the threat of a food shortage in what aid agencies are calling a humanitarian crisis.
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• The World Food Programme
| UNHCR
• Concern
| Mercy Corps
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CARE
| World Vision
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Military veterans face a number of obstacles on their return home, from finding a job, continuing their education to sometimes dealing with life-changing injuries. Here are just a few ways to help veterans and military families. full story
• Fisher House | Freedom Calls
• American Legion Legacy Scholarship Fund
• Operation Education
• When Duty Calls
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For some parts of New Orleans, rebuilding is still a dream more than two years after Hurricane Katrina. Once marked by dense housing, the Lower 9th Ward especially was heavily damaged by the storm. There has been little rebuilding done there since the storm, although some people have been living in trailers in the area.
• Make It Right | Rebuilding Together
• Greater New Orleans Foundation
• HOMEAID | Habitat for Humanity
• Foundation for the Mid South
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World AIDS Day is marked each year on December 1 to raise awareness and remember the disease's victims. full story
• UNAIDS - Joint U.N. Program on HIV/AIDS
• AMFAR
• International HIV/AIDS Alliance
• The Body
• ActionAid International
• Medecins Sans Frontiers International
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Thousands of people died and countless others were left homeless after a cyclone rampaged along Bangladesh's coast. full story
International Red Cross and Red Crescent
• Save the Children | Caritas| CARE
• Catholic Relief Services | UNICEF
• World Food Programme | UNDP
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The Iraqi Red Crescent has the monumental task of treating and feeding more than 1.6 million children under the age of 12 who have become homeless in their own country. That's roughly 70 percent of
the estimated 2.3 million Iraqis who are homeless inside Iraq. full story
• Iraqi Red Crescent
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In September 2007, Zimbabwe faced a desperate economic situation that crippled the country and left many starving. Video 
Here are some ways you can help:
• Africare | CARE
• UNHCR | UNICEF
• Mercycorps | OXFAM
• Worldvision | Childreach/PLAN
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