Bloggers Team Up with Online Nonprofit to Deliver Christmas to Katrina Families - Yahoo! News

Bloggers Team Up with Online Nonprofit to Deliver Christmas to Katrina Families - Yahoo! News: "The social media movement has sparked an adoption frenzy this holiday season and is changing the face of philanthropy. Thanks to www.postsanta.com, www.hurricane-katrina.org, and www.katrinasangels.org, three online, virtual entities, Christmas will arrive for families who are still struggling with the realities after Hurricane Katrina from those who want to make a real difference. The three Web sites not only highlight the ongoing difficulties for those in the New Orleans area trying to rebuild their lives, but they are also a vital link between those in need and those who want to donate food, money, even Christmas trees. They are all engaged in innovative, transformational, change the world media, with a shared vision to catalyze their online endeavors to help the Gulf Coast recover"

Tsunami parents forced to give up children - World - Times Online

Tsunami parents forced to give up children - World - Times Online: "Tsunami parents forced to give up children
Nick Meo

Parents impoverished by the 2004 tsunami are still being forced to put their children into orphanages because they cannot afford to care for them, according to a British charity.

Thousands of children in the Indonesian province of Aceh have been institutionalised, even though more than 85 per cent have at least one living parent and 42 per cent have both parents alive."