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Posted: 5/20/2013 1:39:47 PM EST
FILE - In this photo taken Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2012, reserve bank governor Gill Marcus displays bank notes bearing the image of former president Nelson Mandela, in Pretoria, South Africa. Across South Africa Mandela's face is a familiar sight, beaming from T-shirts, drink coasters and new bank notes. But the sense of possibility that he embodied as a former prisoner of apartheid who became the country's frist black president is fading as a gulf between rich and poor widens and the gorvenrment has been tainted by corruption scandals.(AP Photo/Denis Farrell-file)
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Posted: 5/20/2013 1:39:47 PM EST
FILE : in this photo taken Tuesday De. 18 2012 a child passes a souvenir stand selling garments with some bearing portraits of former president Nelson Mandela, left, in the tourist hub of Soweto, South Africa where Mandela once lived. Across South Africa Mandela's face is a familiar sight, beaming from T-shirts, drink coasters and new bank notes. But the sense of possibility that he embodied as a former prisoner of apartheid who became the country's frist black president is fading as a gulf between rich and poor widens and the government has been tainted by corruption scandals. (AP Photo/Denis Farrell-file)
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Posted: 5/17/2013 10:45:43 AM EST
This undated image released by Lynne Gambone shows her son Tyler Cohen in Albertson, N.Y. Cohen founded a charity, Caps Count, which distributes donated caps to poor kids in the U.S. and orphanages around the world. He is among thousands of kids who do more than the usual crafts, sports and swimming at day and overnight camps. More camps have built in community service over the last decade or so, from nursing home visits to raising money for cancer research, and dozens of other programs. (AP Photo/Lynne Gambone)
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Posted: 5/17/2013 10:45:43 AM EST
Tyler Cohen, 17, of Albertson, N.Y., in Costa Rica pictured with Fernando, a boy he met in Costa Rica while volunteering at an orphanage. It was Fernando's interest in Cohen's white baseball cap that inspired the teen to found Caps Count, a charity that distributes caps to poor kids around the country and around the world. (AP Photo/Lynne Gambone)
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Posted: 5/17/2013 10:45:43 AM EST
This undated image released by Lynne Gambone shows her son Tyler Cohen in Albertson, N.Y. Cohen founded a charity, Caps Count, which distributes donated caps to poor kids in the U.S. and orphanages around the world. He is among thousands of kids who do more than the usual crafts, sports and swimming at day and overnight camps. More camps have built in community service over the last decade or so, from nursing home visits to raising money for cancer research, and dozens of other programs. (AP Photo/Lynne Gambone)
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Posted: 5/15/2013 5:02:31 PM EST
Britain's Prince Harry walks across the polo field before the Sentebale Royal Salute Polo Cup charity match in Greenwich, Conn., Wednesday, May15, 2013. Prince Harry is is competing at the Greenwich Polo Club to benefit Sentebale, the charity he co-founded to help poor children and AIDS orphans in the small African nation of Lesotho. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle)
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Posted: 5/15/2013 5:02:31 PM EST
Britain's Prince Harry walks across the polo field before the Sentebale Royal Salute Polo Cup charity match in Greenwich, Conn., Wednesday, May 15, 2013. Prince Harry is is competing at the Greenwich Polo Club to benefit Sentebale, the charity he co-founded to help poor children and AIDS orphans in the small African nation of Lesotho. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle)
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Posted: 5/15/2013 2:07:22 PM EST
Britain's Prince Harry walks across the polo field before the Sentebale Royal Salute Polo Cup charity match in Greenwich, Conn., Wednesday, 15, 2103. Prince Harry is is competing at the Greenwich Polo Club to benefit Sentebale, the charity he co-founded to help poor children and AIDS orphans in the small African nation of Lesotho. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle)
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Posted: 5/15/2013 2:07:22 PM EST
Britain's Prince Harry walks across the polo field before the Sentebale Royal Salute Polo Cup charity match in Greenwich, Conn., Wednesday, 15, 2103. Prince Harry is is competing at the Greenwich Polo Club to benefit Sentebale, the charity he co-founded to help poor children and AIDS orphans in the small African nation of Lesotho. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle)
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Posted: 5/14/2013 4:04:39 AM EST
A Pakistani girl, right, who was displaced with her family from Pakistan's tribal areas due to fighting between militants and the army, walks past an election banner showing former prime minister and leader of Pakistan Muslim League-N, Nawaz Sharif, and other members of his party, pasted on a rickshaw parked in a poor neighborhood on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan, Monday, May 13, 2013. Nawaz Shari, the Pakistani politician poised to become the country's next prime minister said Monday that Islamabad has "good relations" with the United States, but called the CIA's drone campaign in the country's tribal region a challenge to national sovereignty. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)
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Posted: 5/12/2013 2:42:09 PM EST
In this Friday, April 26, 2013 photo, Syrian singer Abdel Karim Hamdan, speaks during an interview with The Associated Press on the Beirut set of the Arab Idol show, broadcast on MBC TV satellite channel, in Zouk Mosbeh neighborhood, north of Beirut, Lebanon. Hamdan, a 25-year-old music student, who comes from a large, traditional and poor Muslim family in Aleppo, put himself through school by working by working at gas stations and construction sites. He was determined to succeed, and neither fighting nor criticism from both sides of Syria's civil war was going to ruin his chance to let the Arab world hear him sing. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)
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Posted: 5/12/2013 2:42:09 PM EST
In this Friday, April 26, 2013 photo, Syrian singer Abdel Karim Hamdan, performs during the Arab Idol Show broadcast by MBC Arabic satellite channel, in Zouk Mosbeh neighborhood, north of Beirut, Lebanon. Hamdan, a 25-year-old music student, who comes from a large, traditional and poor Muslim family in Aleppo, put himself through school by working by working at gas stations and constructions sites. He was determined to succeed, and neither fighting nor criticism from both sides of Syria's civil war was going to ruin his chance to let the Arab world hear him sing. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)
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Posted: 5/12/2013 10:13:55 AM EST
In this Wednesday, Dec. 12, 2012 photo, a shopper tries on a jacket in front of a mirror in an H&M store, in Atlanta. The rising death toll from the building collapse that killed more than 1,000 garment workers in Bangladesh on April 24, 2013, may force Western brands to make a choice: Stay and work to improve conditions. Or leave and face higher costs, similar or worse worker conditions in other low-wage countries and criticism for abandoning a poor nation where per-capita gross domestic product is just $2,000 per year. Most retailers have vowed to stay and promised to work to improve conditions. Wal-Mart and the Swedish retailer H&M, the top two producers of clothing in Bangladesh, have said they have no plans to leave. (AP Photo/David Goldman)
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Posted: 5/12/2013 10:13:55 AM EST
In this Wednesday, Dec. 12, 2012 photo, a message advertises the frequency of new merchandise arriving at an H&M store as a shopper passes by outside, in Atlanta. The rising death toll from the building collapse that killed more than 1,000 garment workers in Bangladesh on April 24, 2013, may force Western brands to make a choice: Stay and work to improve conditions. Or leave and face higher costs, similar or worse worker conditions in other low-wage countries and criticism for abandoning a poor nation where per-capita gross domestic product is just $2,000 per year. Most retailers have vowed to stay and promised to work to improve conditions. Wal-Mart and the Swedish retailer H&M, the top two producers of clothing in Bangladesh, have said they have no plans to leave. (AP Photo/David Goldman)
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Posted: 5/12/2013 10:13:55 AM EST
This Friday, May 10, 2013 photo shows a shopper walking past the Joe Fresh store on Fifth Avenue in New York. The rising death toll from the building collapse that killed more than 1,000 garment workers in Bangladesh on April 24, 2013, may force Western brands to make a choice: Stay and work to improve conditions. Or leave and face higher costs, similar or worse worker conditions in other low-wage countries and criticism for abandoning a poor nation where per-capita gross domestic product is just $2,000 per year. The Facebook pages of Joe Fresh, Mango and Benetton, a few of the brands whose clothing or production documents were found in the rubble of the collapsed building, are peppered with angry comments from shoppers. Some warn they’re going to shop elsewhere now. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)
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Posted: 5/12/2013 10:13:55 AM EST
FILE - In this Dec. 12, 2012 file photo, a tank-top made in Bangladesh hangs on a rack in an H&M store in Atlanta. The rising death toll from the building collapse that killed more than 1,000 garment workers in Bangladesh on April 24, 2013 may force Western brands to make a choice: Stay and work to improve conditions. Or leave and face higher costs, similar or worse worker conditions in other low-wage countries and criticism for abandoning a poor nation where per-capita gross domestic product is just $2,000 per year. (AP Photo/David Goldman, File)
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Posted: 5/12/2013 10:13:55 AM EST
FILE - This Dec. 13, 2012 file photo shows labels of garments made in Bangladesh, India, China and Pakistan, that were purchased at a Wal-Mart store in Atlanta. The rising death toll from the building collapse that killed more than 1,000 garment workers in Bangladesh on April 24, 2013, may force Western brands to make a choice: Stay and work to improve conditions. Or leave and face higher costs, similar or worse worker conditions in other low-wage countries and criticism for abandoning a poor nation where per-capita gross domestic product is just $2,000 per year. (AP Photo/David Goldman, File)
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Posted: 5/11/2013 9:09:23 AM EST
FILE – In this April 1, 2013 file photo children play basketball at a park near blighted row houses in Baltimore, Md. Within the last year national polls in the United States indicate Americans still think a lot alike and share core values: Seven in 10 say the poor have become too dependent on government assistance; even more want government action to make health care affordable and accessible. And almost as many believe that in the United States “the rich just get richer while the poor get poorer.” (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)
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Posted: 5/10/2013 6:11:01 PM EST
Men stand near a statue of Mother Laura Montoya that overlooks her hometown of Jerico, Colombia, Friday, May 10, 2013. Mother Laura, who was born in 1874 and dedicated her life to working with indigenous and poor people, will become the country's first saint when Pope Francis canonizes her on Sunday. (AP Photo/Luis Benavides)
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Posted: 5/10/2013 6:11:01 PM EST
Statues of Mother Laura Montoya sit on display for sale in her hometown of Jerico, Colombia, Friday, May 10, 2013. Mother Laura, who was born in 1874 and dedicated her life to working with indigenous and poor people, will become the country's first saint when Pope Francis canonizes her on Sunday. (AP Photo/Luis Benavides)
