St. Jude is unique and unlike any other pediatric treatment and research facility anywhere in the world. Discoveries that have been made there have completely changed how the world treats children with cancer and other catastrophic diseases. St. Jude is the only pediatric specialty cancer center that is funded by the National Cancer Institute. They are also the only private cancer center in the United States committed to caring for and supporting children with cancer regardless of the family’s financial situation and health insurance status.

During this holiday season, why not support St. Jude’s acts of kindness with your own? St. Jude offers many ways to support their treatment and research efforts and all donations are tax deductible. If you want to send a monetary donation, you can offer a single donation or a monthly gift. You can also donate gifts to honor the memory of a loved one. And if you haven’t found just the right gift yet for that special person in your life, there’s still time to purchase a gift from St. Jude’s Hope Catalog.

Women are the key to ending global poverty. Because women are at the core of their families, the empowerment and education of women affords us the ability to uplift their children and their communities as well. Below are some important and enlightening statistics from CARE:

• Young women’s earnings increase 10-20% for every year of school completed.
• Girls’ education is the best path to achieving smaller, healthier families.
• An extra year of a woman’s education has been shown to reduce infant mortality by 5-10%.
• Children born to literate mothers are twice as likely to make it to their 5th birthday.
• Children with educated mothers are twice as likely to go to school and are less malnourished.
• Education is a powerful weapon against AIDS. Seven million cases of HIV could be prevented in the next decade if every child received an education.

What can you do? The United States can take an important step toward getting children in the world’s poorest countries into school by passing the Education for All Act of 2007. This bi-partisan legislation would make achieving universal primary education a U.S. foreign assistance priority. Send a message to your legislator today asking them to co-sponsor the Education for All Act of 2007!

Did you know that in some countries just $49 can send a girl to school for an entire year? Through tomorrow (9/30/07), when you donate to CARE towards educating women Sheila C. Johnson (a CARE Ambassador) will DOUBLE your donation (dollar for dollar)! It’s great opportunity to make your donation more powerful than it’s ever been.