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December Social Good Awareness, Advocacy, and Activism Days

by Elisa | Dec 1, 2025 | Art of Advocacy, Being World Changers, Children-in-Need, Conflicts, Wars, Genocides and Atrocities, Create Awareness, Global Health, Human Rights, Refugees and Immigration, Seeking Justice, United States, Ways to Make a Difference, Women's Empowerment | 0 |

Want to make doing good easier? Create awareness? Take advantage of the resources out there...

Action: Crafting on Etsy for Charity

by Elisa | Dec 3, 2012 | Children-in-Need, Fair Trade Products, Global Health, Good Charities, Spiritual Discipleship, Ways to Make a Difference | 0 |

An Average Illinois Teen Became an Advocate Abby and I connected a month or two ago via twitter. I was drawn to her immediately because of her conviction that she can make a difference in our world. She is doing something...

Malaria 101

by Elisa | Apr 26, 2012 | Global Health, Poverty, Ways to Make a Difference | 0 |

World Malaria Day Every year on this designated day (April 25th), we are reminded that malaria still exists. I have had a few friends who have caught malaria overseas, convincing me that it is nothing I’d want to contract....

AIDS/HIV 101: Why Should I Care?

by Elisa | Dec 1, 2011 | Global Health | 0 |

Why should we care about AIDS? I was trying to figure out when I started caring about AIDS. I think I knew someone with AIDS briefly, as a kid, before he passed on. I definitely didn’t care about that person. But...

Loving Others: World Malaria Day

by Elisa | Apr 25, 2009 | Anthropology Psychology Sociology, Global Health, Spiritual Discipleship | 0 |

Because April 25th is World Malaria Day: It costs about $20 to provide a family with a malaria prevention kit (bed nets and education on the disease) through various organizations. You can look at more facts and a map at...