Do you care passionately about the situation in Iraq or Afganistan or Darfur? Are you up in arms about the AIDS epidemic in Africa? Does the Palestinian crisis infuriate you?
Did you know that a newborn African-American is nearly twice as likely to die within his first 24 hours than a white baby? According to Save the Children’s annual State of the World’s Mothers report, the U.S. has second worst newborn death rate in modern world.
How does it feel to have a problem of this magnitude right here at home?
[Among the industrialized nations of the world,] only Latvia, with six deaths per 1,000 live births, has a higher death rate for newborns than the United States, which is tied near the bottom of industrialized nations with Hungary, Malta, Poland and Slovakia with five deaths per 1,000 births.
Get mad! Pick something that you care deeply about and do something today! If you cannot choose, here are a couple of my favorite causes.
