Get ready to tackle a global child-focused issue. Got ideas?

Now we know what that "coming soon" teaser was posted to www.Kiwanis.org's dashboard these past couple weeks - it was the announcement of Kiwanis International's 2^nd Worldwide Service Project. Go to www.Kiwanis.org/wsp to see the details of this critically important endeavor getting underway, not just in the Kiwanis world, but in the entire world.

Kiwanis International is accepting proposals (i.e., the brightest of bright ideas) for its second WSP. This is huge - do you know why? Kiwanis' first WSP reduced the number of families in under-developed countries victimized by Iodine Deficiency Disorder (IDD), the leading preventable cause of mental and physical disabilities. Working with UNICEF, the entire Kiwanis family - country by country, region by region, person by person - joined together to raise funds to help eliminate this devastating disorder by supporting salt iodization, testing and monitoring, and education.

The impressive part: today, about 70% of the people in the developing world have iodized salt now, and UNICEF is hailing the first WSP as one of the greatest public health triumphs in the 20^th century.

For most of us in the U.S. and other advanced countries, it's hard to understand the magnitude of this project. We take iodized salt for granted. For that matter, we take healthy babies and children for granted most of the time. Go to www.Kiwanis.org/wsp and read more. Get motivated. Be engaged. What can we tackle next? We've already shown it's do-able. Let's do it again.