The Music is Medicine project uses music to uplift seriously-ill children and creates a CD for them and their families with songs they wrote or inspired!

1.1 Billion people on our planet do not have access to clean, safe drinking water. (That is one in every six of us.) 4,500 children under the age of 5 die every day as a result of drinking contaminated water. (That's approximately one child every 15 seconds.) Over 80% of all world-wide diseases are easily-preventable, water-borne illnesses. These kill over 2.2 million people each year- more than all worldwide violence combined. Sound daunting? The problem is big, but the solution is easy.

In the Puerto Plata province of the DR, thousands of Dominicans and Haitians live in poverty without adequate access to health care, adequate nutrition and housing, social services, or economic opportunity. Having participated in several week-long medical service trips to this region, we have experienced the challenges of addressing long-term health and social problems using short-term interventions. Medical service trips allow individuals to access health care, medicine, hygiene supplies, and for a few critically ill patients, funding for further care.

My name is Mitchell and I’m a 17-year-old student/soccer player from Wisconsin. I started Peace Is The Goal as a goodwill initiative in October 2006 when I was 13 years old. This ongoing initiative aims to make the world a better place to live in by spreading the message of peace and giving through “the world’s game”, soccer. Many kids in the world have little, if anything. They are desperately looking for something positive to do. They love the sport of soccer, but many don’t even have real equipment to play the game. Rocks, plastic bottles or garbage are often used as balls.

The deadly earthquake in Sichuan, China (May 2008) affected vast number of people. High school students face great challenges. Even while the school has not yet been restored, these students are expected to cope with not only the aftermath of the earthquake, but also their schoolwork and the extremely competitive college entrance examination. Since English is a required course in high school in China and the students don't have access to English books, we would like to help The No. 1 High School in Dujiangyan, Sichuan build an English book section.

Most neighborhoods are not adequately prepared to respond to eventual natural disasters (earthquake, etc). My project would develop an emergency response site that would provide my neighborhood with a cache of a emergency supplies for disaster situations. The cache would include medical / sanitary supplies, communication equipment and search & rescue tools.

The US soldiers are each away from their homes and families as well as not having access to all the resources we do. They are short in hygiene supplies and their food source is limited and continuously bland.