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Giving

A look around the globe at people in need and the help that many have given to try to make their lives better. From donations to volunteering time, many contribute hoping to make a difference.

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Giving

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  1. Giving

  2. Eight-year-old Lily Kostopoulos helps fill bags of food to be distributed to those in need for Thanksgiving at a distribution center in Wilkes-Barre Twp., Pa. on Nov. 15. Wives, family members and girlfriends of Penguins players volunteered their time to help out the 36th annual “Thanksgiving Project” sponsored by the Commission on Economic Opportunity and the Weinberg Northeast Regional Food Bank. (Christopher Dolan/The Citizens’ Voice via AP)

  3. Migrants reach out for blankets and sleeping bags delivered by the aid organization L’Auberge des Migrants at the migrants camp near Calais, northern France on Nov, 7. Many of the residents spend hours queuing for six-minute showers and one daily meal at a government-funded facility on the camps Atlantic-facing edge. (Markus Schreiber/Associated Press)

  4. Alexis Colon, 2, was totally psyched up for early Thanksgiving dinner. Behind him is his mother Angela Valentin. With Boston’s homeless shelters full right now, 150 families numbering 359 are housed in the Days Inn and Charles River Motel in Allston-Brighton. Families live in one room with a microwave and mini-fridge. ABCD is working with multiple partners to provide a week early a Thanksgiving dinner with all the trimmings at the Charlesview Community Center. (Suzanne Kreiter/Globe Staff)

  5. Thanksgiving dinner was served at the Goodwill in Boston and dancing followed for the many clients with developmental disabilities who attended the event. Boston Mayor Martin J. Walsh laughed out loud as Stacey Heffernan asked for a dance with him. (John Tlumacki/The Boston Globe)

  6. People listen to Cardinal Timothy Dolan, Archbishop of New York for the Roman Catholic Church, preach before being given free food for Thanksgiving meals at the Lt. Joseph P. Kennedy Community Center on Nov. 24, in the Harlem neighborhood of the Manhattan borough of New York City. Approximately 700 meals were distributed. (Andrew Burton/Getty Images)

  7. Tumwater firefighter/paramedic Matt Somnis helps second grader Hailee Keith put on one of the approximately 300 donated children’s coats that were given away, Nov. 19, in Tumwater, Wash., as part of the Tumwater Fire Department’s “Operation Warm” coat give-away at Michael T. Simmons Elementary School. (Steve Bloom/The Olympian via AP)

  8. Migrants and refugees reach through a fence for clothes and food from volunteers as they wait to cross the Slovenian-Austrian border in Sentilj on Oct. 31. (Jure Makovec/AFP/Getty Images)

  9. Brenda King dances with Andre Wright at TD Garden’s annual charitable event, “Table of Friends” which serves hot meals to Boston area homeless in Boston, on Nov. 24. (Jessica Rinaldi/Globe Staff)

  10. Washington Nationals infielder Ryan Zimmerman, right, stops to talk with volunteer Jeri Wasco, left, at Food Friends in Washington, on Nov. 23. Zimmerman was helping out at the center to help prepare turkeys for Thanksgiving meals which will be delivered later this week as holiday dinners to children and adults in the DC region facing HIV/AIDS, cancer and other life-challenging illnesses. (Pablo Martinez Monsivais/Associated Press)

  11. Flint resident Tami Dixon hugs Senior Pastor Solomon Kinloch, Jr. after a church service, where she and more than 900 others will receive a Thanksgiving turkey during a giveaway on Nov. 19, at Triumph Church in Flint. (Jake May/The Flint Journal-MLive.com via AP)

  12. Brooke and Cameron Rigby play Christmas music on the street in honor of a terminally ill boy, Evan Leversage, with all proceeds being donated to the Leversage family in St. George, Ontario, Canada, on Oct. 24. Evan Leversage, is a seven-year-old boy who has been living with inoperable brain cancer since he was two years old. His family has organized a Christmas celebration in early October complete with a full parade, in case Evan does not live to celebrate his last Christmas day on the traditional date of Dec. 25, according to local media. (Mark Blinch/Reuters)

  13. A worker collects bread from the oven of the Bunian charitable bakery in Yemen's capital Sanaa on Nov. 25. The newly established bakery provides bread to more than 800 poor families in the city, a charity running it said. (Khaled Abdullah/Reuters)

  14. Migrant children line up to receive food at a registration center near Gevgelija, Macedonia on Oct. 30. (Nikolay Doychinov/AFP/Getty Images)

  15. Cans of food are sorted at the Food Bank of West Central Texas during the annual Fisher Shares & Cares Volunteer Day, Nov. 18, 2015, in Abilene, Tx. (Nellie Doneva /The Abilene Reporter-News via AP)

  16. Slices of pumpkin pie sit on a table during the Great Thanksgiving banquet hosted by the Bay Area Rescue Mission on Nov. 25 in Richmond, Calif. Hundreds of homeless and needy people were given a free meal a day before Thanksgiving. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

  17. A pedestrian donates money to a volunteer for war victims in Shan state, outside a shopping mall Nov. 19 in Yangon, Myanmar. (Khin Maung Win/Associated Press)

  18. People line up to give blood at the St. Louis hospital across the street from the Petit Cambodge restaurant in Paris on Nov. 14, a day after over 120 people were killed in a series of shooting and explosions. (Jerome Delay/Associated Press)

  19. Roh Hae-kyung and her daughter Han Soo-a, right, make kimchi, traditional pungent vegetable, to donate to needy neighbors for winter preparation at a government building in Seoul, South Korea, on Oct. 28. About 100 volunteers made 5,500kg of kimchi. Made with cabbage, other vegetables and chili sauce, kimchi is the most popular traditional food in Korea. (Ahn Young-joon/Associated Press)

  20. Bonnie Dwyer, who is homeless, has her hair blow-dried at the Green Tangerine Salon Spa in Boston, on Oct.19. Once a month the staff of the Green Tangerine Salon Spa in the Back Bay volunteers their time and services to wash, cut and style the hair of low-income and homeless women from the Women’s Lunch Place. (Jessica Rinaldi/Globe Staff)

  21. Volunteers distribute donated food into Thanksgiving meal boxes on Nov. 23, in New York City.The free meals, which are organized by the state government through a food drive, will be given to those in need for Thanksgiving. (Andrew Burton/Getty Images)

  22. A volunteer serves a Thanksgiving meals at the New York City Rescue Mission on Nov. 23, in New York City. The Rescue Mission is serving 1,000 Thanksgiving meals today to those in need. (Andrew Burton/Getty Images)

  23. Some of the thousands of people effected by a fire that destroyed 250 homes receive food hand outs from aid agencies at the informal settlement in Kaya Sands, Johannesburg, on Nov. 12. The fire left hundreds of families homeless. (Kim Ludbrook/EPA)

  24. Lego bricks are poured through the sunroof of a BMW 5 series car, used as a receptacle for donations of Lego bricks in the courtyard of the Royal Academy in central London on Oct. 30. The collection has been organised by Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei who, after having his official request for Lego bricks refused by the manufacturer, has called on the public to donate their bricks as part of his next project. (Leon Neal/AFP/Getty Images)

  25. A volunteer paints the face of a boy at a shelter for refugees and migrants on Mitzvah Day 2015 on Nov. 15, in Berlin, Germany. Jewish groups across Germany are participating in annual Mitzvah Day, which, in addition to charity donations and visits to senior care homes this year also includes several projects to reach out refugees and migrants. Germany will absorb over a million migrants and refugees this year, many of them from predominantly Muslim countries such as Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan. (Carsten Koall/Getty Images)

  26. Packed clothes are seen at a huge donations center for migrants and refugees at the Messe trade fair grounds on Oct. 29, in Hamburg, Germany. The center was launched in early September as the influx of migrants in Germany spiked and since then the center has moved into an even bigger hall at the trade fair grounds. (Alexander Koerner/Getty Images)

  27. A Yemeni medic prepares to take a blood donation for the victims of the ongoing war in Yemen at a temporary blood-bank in the capital Sanaa on Nov. 11. Yemen is in a state of war between Shiite Huthi rebels and their allies, and a Saudi-led coalition supporting the official Yemeni government. (Mohammed Huwais/AFP/Getty Images)

  28. A Pakistani girl waits in line to receive free food for her family, distributed at local shrine in suburbs of Islamabad, Pakistan, on Nov. 20. (B.K. Bangash/Associated Press)

  29. JBU fans celebrate the 35th Annual Toilet Paper Game presented by Charmin with the customary toilet paper toss, , Oct. 31, in Siloam Springs, Ark. For every roll used to celebrate the hometown heroes, a roll will be donated to The Manna Center food bank. (Gareth Patterson/Associated Press)

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