You can help identify and care for children around the world who are separated from their parents. By contributing a kit, you will be providing basic survival materials — such as clothing, blankets and cooking equipment — that will address the immediate needs of these children. And you will help pay for the effort to link them back to their families. The easiest way to donate: Go to netaid.org. But you can also call 1-877-refugee ext. 100, or send a check to Netaid.org Foundation, 336 East 45th Street, New York, N.Y. 10017

REUNIFICATION KIT
Goal for number of children to reunify: 600
You can help identify and reunite children with their families. This kit — the contents are on netaid.org — was constructed by the International Rescue Committee. It includes most things necessary to provide for the immediate needs of children separated from their families and begin reunification. The kits will be used in war-torn West Africa and East Timor.
Price: $111

EDUCATION KIT
Goal for number of students to aid in Guinea: 700
You can help separated children continue to learn even while they await reunification. Schooling is an essential way to reduce the trauma of the refugee experience, and it's a crucial part of ending the cycle of poverty that afflicts many in West Africa. Your kit will open a place in schools to some of the 9,000 separated children in Guinea.
Price: $28

SAFE-HAVEN KIT
Goal for number of children to ID and shelter: 465
You can help children living on the streets of Brazzaville, Congo. The children are cared for at a drop-in youth center while their families are searched for or foster homes are found. Your contribution goes toward identifying these children and tracing their families while creating an environment in which they can learn and live free from fear.
Price: $122

RESETTLEMENT KIT
Number of mothers and children to assist: 160
By contributing to one of these kits, you can help a refugee mother and her children make the transition to new lives and homes in the U.S. Your contribution will provide these families, which have been uprooted by trouble around the world, with the skills they need to become self-sufficient.
Price: $125 to sponsor a mother, $175 for a child

FOLLOW-UP
A Continuing Effort on AIDS

In the Feb. 12 issue, TIME chronicled the human horror of the AIDS pandemic in Africa and collaborated with Netaid to offer readers something they could do to help. The project has raised nearly $450,000 to prevent the spread of the disease in Africa and assist those who are afflicted. The donations keep coming.

Much remains to be done. If you visit the Netaid website, you will find details of how the program is working and what you can do to get involved beyond just making a financial contribution. If the kits for the family-reunification project sell out, Netaid users will have the opportunity to contribute to the AIDS effort instead.

You can learn more about both the AIDS issue and the problem of family separation by visiting the online stories at time.com and netaid.org. CNN will feature TIME writer Nadya Labi on Mother's Day, May 13, at 8:30 a.m. E.T.