22 December 2006: Morning By The Morning News — 22 Dec 2006 If there's one thing we've learned this year, it's that the world needs saving: The Natural Resources Defense Council. The Addis Ababa Fistula Hospital works to treat women with obstetric fistulas, a nasty and easily fixed birth complication. (More background.) The Brooklyn Animal Resource Coalition takes in homeless animals and finds them loving homes. Where we get our Roosters: The Heifer Foundation. Meals for those too sick to provide their own: God's Love We Deliver. Emergency assistance for those affected by disaster or armed conflict: Doctors Without Borders. Helen & Douglas House is a children's hospice in Oxford. Change through sport: Right to Play teaches sport to disadvantaged children around the world. Change through music: Music as Therapy is a tiny charity that brings music therapy to Romanian orphans. The Town Hall Education Arts and Recreation Center in D.C. has a drive going on right now. For many in Louisiana, the crisis still is not over: Louisiana Disaster Recovery Foundation. Prepare Self-Defense fights crime before it happens--by teaching world-class self-defense in public schools. Modest Needs stops poverty before it happens--by helping low-income workers through unexpected expenses. With Kiva you can lend money to entrepreneurs in developing countries to help them help themselves out of poverty. Help drunk Santa get the booze; then track him through NORAD. From all of us to all of you: Thank you for making it such a special year. Have a safe and happy holiday--see you on Jan. 2.
