Welcome to Care2.com's Race for Children in Need! The Race for Children in Need is a quick, easy way to help support needy children around the world with a simple point and click.

The race is 100% free to you!

What you need to do: Click on the "Click to Help" button located at http://children.care2.com up to once per day. Each click generates a donation, paid by Care2 and other corporate advertising sponsors, to sponsor a needy child through Children International. 100% of the money you generate will be sent to Children International.

How to help even more:

1. Get your friends to help: When you invite friends to join the Race, you'll get credit for their participation. After all, if it wasn't for you, they wouldn't be helping to support children in need! You'll get credit for the friends they invite, and their friends, and their friends. We'll chart everyone's progress so you can see your impact. One person can really make a difference!
   
   
2. Take advantage of special offers: Your clicks and purchases help pay for maintaining the Race for Children in Need. Please support those who are paying for your donations!

3. Sign the petitions advertised in the Race. These petitions help different social causes, often relating to urgent humanitarian efforts.
   
   
4. Register for the race! By registering, we can track your contribution over time.

(Note: While we appreciate some people's efforts to help more by using "creative marketing" ideas, please do not send unsolicited invitations to people you do not know. Please do not sign up for multiple accounts. To preserve the integrity of the Race, we will be forced to terminate accounts that are abusing this trust.)

Where the money goes: 100% of the donations generated go to support needy children through Children International. Contributions are funded by sponsors who have agreed to pay to be featured on the Race for Children in Need. If during a period there are no paying corporate advertising sponsors, Care2 has guaranteed to make a donation of at least $1 for every 1000 clicks on the Children's race. No matter what, every time you click, (up to once per day) you will be generating a donation to support one of Care2's kids.

About Care2.com: With over 8 million members, Care2.com is the first and largest online community for people who "Care2 make the world greener" through their everyday web usage. Care2.com provides a wide range of resources for learning about the environment and offers free e-cards, e-mail, web search and news services. Simply by using Care2.com's free services, you generate donations, paid by corporate advertising sponsors, to environmental causes. Care2.com donates 5% of its website revenues to environmental causes, providing another simple, yet effective way for its members to help the environment.

About Children International: Since 1936, Children International has been providing assistance to children and families struggling in terrible poverty. Today, through sponsorship, they help children in 10 countries – Chile, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras, India, Nepal, the Philippines and the United States. And through children and family assistance programs in Kenya and Zambia, they’re giving hope to children and adults affected by extreme poverty. Through the generosity of contributors they provide needy children with a variety of programs and services to meet their basic needs, enhance their human dignity and raise their physical and educational levels in a meaningful, lasting way.

Want to sponsor a child of your own? Right now there is a needy child living in dire poverty who is waiting for a caring person like YOU. At Children International, we unite people who want to make a difference with children who are poverty-stricken and suffering. For only $18 a month, you can make a difference by sponsoring a needy child. Give a desperately poor child hope for a brighter future. Sponsor a child now through Children International!