I was reading a magazine today and there was a feature about doing good things for other people. A couple of the suggestions mentioned two organizations that I thought were doing exceptional work and were worth writing about.
CARE (www.care.org) is a humanitarian organization that assists poor women of the world so that they can become educated, [...]

[ February 19, 2009 7:00 pm to February 21, 2009 7:00 pm. ] To raise awareness and funds to end violence against women, V-Day Salem College 2009 presents student-led benefit performances. originally written and performed by award-winning playwright Eve Ensler, The vagina Monologues is based on interviews with women of different ages, nationalities, ethnicities and circumstances. Visit www.vday.org for more information.

Admission by ticket only: $10 for general admission, [...]

*This article was published on February 13, 2009 in The New York Times.
By NAZILA FATHI
TEHRAN — In a year of marriage, Razieh Qassemi, 19, says she was beaten repeatedly by her husband and his father. Her husband, she says, is addicted to methamphetamine and has threatened to marry another woman to “torture” her.
Rather than endure [...]

Mujeres Libres is dedicated to the struggle of the Zapatista Women of Chiapas, Mexico. The site is “about work, solidarity work, culture as a weapon, cooperative work and an alternate economy.” I encourage you to go to this site and learn more about the Zapatista Women because their fight for a just world is [...]

This article was published in The New York Times on December 31, 2008 by Nicholas D. Kristoff
“As long as 14-year-old girls are being jolted with electric shocks to make them smile before sex tourists in Cambodia, the abolitionist cause for slavery has not been completed.”
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This is from a New York Times articles published on 10.18.08, written by Jeffrey Gettleman
“Congo, it seems, is finally facing its rape problem, which has been called the worst sexual violence in the world.”
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