25 ways for you to help make a child's life better this holiday season.

How can you help underprivileged children? Here are 25 ways for you to help make a child's life better this year. Why not pick a few off the list, or pick one that you can make a yearlong project and get a head start on your New Years Resolution!

1. Donate new blankets to children in homeless shelters at projectnightnight.org.
2. Sponsor a child or a village at SOS Children's Villages and help orphaned and abandoned children find a new home and a family (www.sos-usa.org).
3. Support by sponsoring a girl in a state run orphanages in Eastern Europe, or Purchase jewelry created by the JewelGirls, an economic empowerment and art therapy program for adolescent girl survivors of human trafficking, sexual violence, and street life, at FairFund (www.fairfund.org).
4. Help provide a safe place for a child of sex trafficking at Courtney's House www.courtneyshouse.org
5. Help girls and young women who have experienced commercial sexual exploitation and domestic trafficking by supporting Girls Educational and Mentoring Services (GEMS) www.gems-girls.org
6. Help a mother in Uganda send her children to school by purchasing jewelry fromPaper to Pearls www.papertopearls.org
7. Give the gift of freedom to a enslaved child by supporting Free the Slaves, where as little as $10 a month helps liberators around the world who are freeing children and entire families (www.freetheslaves.net).
8. Shop or donate to thrift stores such as, Out of the Closet, which helps support the AIDS Healthcare Foundation.
9. Before you shop online, go to goodshop.com. Then buy from participating retailers and the site donates a portion of your purchase to the charity of your choice.
10. Spend an hour or two a week helping an immigrant learn English (check out literacyvolunteers.org).
11. Donate old cell phones to victims of domestic violence for emergencies (go to ncadv.org and click "donate").
12. Vaccinate 50 children around the world against deadly diseases such as meningitis, measles or polio with a $50 donation at doctorswithoutborders.org.
13. Provide a month of care for a child rescued from sexual slavery for just $30 at sharedhope.org.
14. Find projects that help children in your neighborhood at dosomething.org.
15. Make a $10 donation to freethechildren.org and a special matching-funds program will turn it into $100 worth of medical supplies for kids around the world.
16. Mentor an at-risk teen online at icouldbe.org.
17. Help an aspiring student pay for college at scholarshipamerica.org.
18. Send a DVD or video game to hospital-bound kids via childsplaycharity.org.
19. Helping students, ages 6-18, with expository and creative writing at 826national.org.
20. Train your dog to be a therapy dog for children in hospitals at tdi-dog.org.
21. Give to donorschoose.org; a small donation can help create cozy reading nooks for underfunded classrooms.
22. Upgrade your laptop; worldcomputerexchange.org will send your old one to a child in one of 61 countries.
23. Give blood and save a child's life at givelife.org.
24. Become a bone marrow donor at www.marrow.org, it could be a child's life you save.
25. Save a child from Malaria with just $10 at www.nothingbutnets.net