We’ve gotten some emails from readers asking about how to donate to help children in the Middle East. CLICK HERE to find out about how to help Israeli kids who are in range of Hezbollah rockets.
Also CLICK HERE for Mercy Corps, which is collecting money to help Lebanese families displaced by the ongoing violence.
(Due to time constraints, we’ll offer these two but if readers have other suggestions, please leave them in comments. If you want to donate we STRONGLY urge you to check out the credentials of the group first to that ensure any money you give is going to families or kids and not to crooked individuals or to a political group).
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.