Agency Urges Expanded Services for Babies and Children. On World AIDS Day, the global humanitarian organization Save the Children is calling on the new Congress and administration to maintain the United States' commitment to fighting global AIDS and ensuring that more babies and children affected by HIV and AIDS benefit from expanded AIDS programs.

Save the Children is receiving a gift from Procter & Gamble's nonprofit Children's Safe Drinking Water program that will help create 10 million liters of safe drinking water for children and families in future emergency situations.

Save the Children is urging President-elect Barack Obama to take a critical step now to reform U.S. foreign assistance by announcing his intention that international human development programs will play a critical role in the new administration's foreign aid policy.

The election is over, and American voters have spoken. Now, hundreds of American children and teens from 15 red and blue states are hoping to do the same.

In this issue: New Holiday 2008 Gift Catalog; Diary of a Sponsor; Hollywood’s Big Stars Make Little Caps for Newborns; Emergency Hotspots Map. Coming Soon: This Thanksgiving you can give back by keeping children in mind and in your heart: Give now and we'll thank you with our 2009 Calendar.