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Help us congratulate the 2013 World of Children Honorees for their extraordinary work helping vulnerable children throughout the globe.

It was our privilege to host the 2013 Annual Awards Ceremony in New York City on November 7. And to our delight, the renowned fashion photographer Bill Cunningham was there to capture the Event.

People Magazine featured the Limited Edition World of Children Necklace on People.com. The keys were designed by Adam Shulman, famed jeweler and husband of Anne Hathaway.

Our Co-Founders, Kay and Harry, were featured in a recent article by the Huffington Post that takes a look at 5 inspiring power couples who, after achieving so much as individuals, commit as a couple to looking outward, giving back, and sharing their success with others.

Co-Founder Harry Leibowitz was featured on the Huffington Post discussing the cholera epidemic in Haiti that is now in its fourth year. But thankfully, heroes like our 2006/2013 Honoree Susie Krabacher are overcoming challenges in this stricken country and have programs that are working.

Nancy Redd interviews our Co-Founders Harry Leibowitz and Kay Isaacson-Leibowitz live on HuffPost Live about how they met, how they fell in love, and how together the serve the children of World of Children.

Co-Founder Harry Leibowitz speaks on the Huffington Post about one of the many unfortunate consequences the United States government shutdown is having on the lives of vulnerable children.

Since 2005, 2013 Honoree Triveni Acharya has fearlessly led the way in rescuing more than 4,000 victims of child trafficking in India through her organization, Rescue Foundation. One of those children is 17-year-old Leena who was rescued from a brothel in Delhi in 2010. Read her story.

Co-Founder Harry Leibowitz was recently published on the Huffington Post discussing Malala Yousafzai, the Nobel Prize, and our 2013 Youth Honoree Chaeli Mycroft.

Sarah Cronk’s older brother Charlie was born with a disability that inhibits his understanding of social cues. This made high school tough; Charlie was often left out at school and had trouble making friends. One day, Jared, a popular student, sat with him at lunch and invited him to join the swim team. From that…

Every year, World of Children receives hundreds of nominations for their annual Awards. After months of consideration, we are pleased to announce our 2013 Honorees.

World of Children celebrity ambassador, Stephanie March, reflects upon her visit to Nepal with Co-Founders Harry and Kay.

In July, co-founders Harry and Kay, along with celebrity ambassador Stephanie March and photographer Michael Crook, traveled to Nepal to visit two past Honorees, Douglas Maclagan and Dr. Ashok Banskota. There, they met children who are too often overlooked: children rescued from traffickers, suffering from deformities, and living in the slums of Pokhara and Kathmandu

Celebrity Ambassador, Stephanie March, traveled with World of Children Co-Founders to remote regions of Nepal on a two-week journey. They visited two Honorees and witnessed the awe-inspiring work they are doing.

Read about Harry and Kay’s inspiring story founding World of Children and why they deserve to be on The Xtraordinary.

Imagine driving up an incredibly narrow, pitted road carved into a hillside and ascending hundreds of feet above the valley floor…. Now imagine that you step out of the car into another world, one that is totally separate from the hustle and bustle of nearby Kathmandu. Welcome to the quiet campus of the Hospital and…

When they received our Health Award, Douglas Maclagan and Dr. Ashok Banskota joined us in New York City. Now, we are coming to them. It’s a beautiful morning in Kathmandu, Nepal. Taxis idle outside of hotels to wait for tourists to roll out of bed. Rickshaws trundle up crowded streets underneath a myriad of colorful…

World of Children goes to great lengths to ensure that the Honorees we support and elevate are honest and sustainable. Read below to learn how you can be prepared to make smart decisions when you donate your hard-earned money to charities. An Alarming Discovery Over the past year, reporters from the Tampa Bay Times and…

For Father’s Day, we want to take a few moments to honor Harry Leibowitz, the father of our organization. In 1996, Harry, recovering from surgery, came up with a powerful idea. He envisioned an award that would recognize people serving the population most in need of help: vulnerable children. He then founded the World of…

The earthquake in Haiti on January 12, 2010 killed 230,000 people and destroyed 70,000 homes as it rumbled through the capital. It only took a few moments. Recovery has taken far longer. Today, tent cities housing 357,785 Haitians blanket Port-au-Prince’s landscape; rubble sits in piles; and countless children have been left to fend for themselves.…

Unlike anyone else in the world, mothers have the unique ability to be many different things at once; they are our role models, best friends, heroes. When we were young, mom got us out the door and to school on time. She gave us a shoulder to cry on; she laughed at our jokes. Without…

In a few days, millions of people around the world will come together for Earth Day to support a sustainable planet. Children–the inheritors of our planet–have the biggest stake in environmental protection, and much needs to be done to ensure that all children will grow up in a safe, healthy environment. Right now, rising levels…

By 2015, world leaders hope to reach 8 millennium development goals that would change the lives of millions of vulnerable children, and you could be a big part of the solution. Where were you 3,000 days ago? For many of us, 3,000 days doesn’t seem so long ago, and despite a few changes, our lives…