April 2007 Issue: Who's Your Idol? Share Your Story and Help Charity Responding to Tsunami in the Solomon Islands Malaria Awareness Day is April 25 Send an E-mail to World Leaders for Education Teen Chronicles Caps Trip to Bangladesh New Gift Shop Arrivals: Toddler Tees Mozambique - April's Featured Country Test Your Knowledge "Who's Your Idol?" Share Your Story on a Squidoo Web Page and Help Charity To raise awareness of our participation in American Idol's "Idol Gives Back" this month, we're asking "Who's your idol?" Everyone has a role model, a mentor, an idol. Does a parent, a teacher or a public figure inspire you? Share your story by building a Squidoo Web page and help Save the Children too.  "What is Squidoo?" you ask. Find out! Save the Children Responds to Deadly Tsunami in the Solomon Islands Save the Children is working to provide relief to families and children left homeless by the deadly tsunami that struck the Solomon Islands last Monday morning, April 3rd. The agency — which has extensive health, education and child protection programs in the affected area — has sent a team to the island along with urgently needed supplies. The Save the Children team is assessing the status of families and will work to ensure that children are protected as the region recovers.  Learn more about what we’re doing to help April 25 is Malaria Awareness Day in the U.S. Eric Swedberg helps guide Save the Children's global efforts to save the lives of children under age five in poor countries. For more than 15 years, he has been involved in the fight against Malaria — a major childhood killer. The disease claims the lives of nearly 1 million children each year. On the eve of the first Malaria Awareness Day in the United States on April 25, 2007, Eric shares his thoughts about promising new developments to prevent and treat the disease.  Read about advances in Malaria prevention and treatment  Make a donation today to support all the work we do to help children in need in the United States and around the world. With your support we can provide important work on Malaria prevention and treatment, along with programs that provide prenatal care and newborn training, supply life-saving immunizations for young children, build schools and train teachers so that even more children have a chance for a better future. World Leaders are Meeting Soon — Send an E-mail for Education When there is conflict, children's education is often overlooked. Rewrite the Future is a challenge to the world to ensure the 43 million children out-of-school because of armed conflict get access to quality education.   We need you to send an e-mail. World leaders are meeting soon — this is your chance to help. Teen Chronicles the Caps Trip to Bangladesh What's it like for an American teenager to travel to Bangladesh to bring life-saving knitted and crocheted caps to the newborns there? Take this amazing journey with Mollie, a teenager from Minnesota, as she, her teacher and Save the Children go to Bangladesh in the final phase of the successful Caps to the Capital project. Mollie started a blog so everyone can share in her experience.  Travel with Mollie as she chronicles her trip to Bangladesh New Gift Shop Spring Arrivals: Toddler Tees This spring, we are not only bringing you new arrivals, but a whole new category of merchandise: our new Children's Clothing category. Perfect timing for warmer weather, our new toddler tees featuring "Baby Animals" by Jordan, Age 10 and "Save Our Earth" by Whitney, Age 8, created by our children's clothing official licensee, Inter-Asia Sourcing.  Browse our Gift Shop  Browse our children's clothing Featured Country — Mozambique  Mozambique possesses the lowest, and still falling, life expectancy in the world. Mozambique has one of the highest infant and maternal mortality rates worldwide. 70 percent of the population of lives on less than a dollar a day. Save the Children works with communities, local authorities and organizations to provide much-needed health, education and economic development programs to its nearly one million people. PlayPumps International, together with Save the Children USA, is making clean water child's play with an innovative merry-go-round-type pump powered by the energy of their youthful vigor!  Learn about the PlayPump® Clean Water initiative  Learn about our work in Mozambique  Listen to a sample of music from this region of the world    courtesy of Putumayo music    Test Your Knowledge Which of the following is one of the biggest killers of children under five in developing countries — an unthinkable threat in the U.S.? A) Diarrhea B) Infected Lacerations C) Tuberculosis