billboards and bus signs promoting, well, freedom from religion. Reason's Greetings! (Box 750, Madison, WI 53701; ffrf.org ) 4. Bahia Street. Founded by a Brazilian sociologist and an American anthropologist, this group helps girls from the slums of Salvador, Brazil, with education, healthcare, food and counseling to help them break out of the cycle of poverty and violence. It works! The first girls went off to college this year, and more on the way. (1005 NE Boat Street, Seattle, WA 98105; bahiastreet.org ) 5. WAW/AWF. More troops are not going to help Afghan women become literate or self-supporting or safe from violence. That takes local knowledge and hands-on involvement. Women for Afghan Women, on whose advisory board I serve, runs women's shelters in Kabul and other cities, plus a home for the children of women in prison. Its Afghan Women's Fund, directed by the heroic Fahima Vorgetts, builds schools, digs wells and sets up women's councils that provide literacy classes and job training in the countryside. (Checks to WAW go to 32-17 College Point Boulevard, Room 206, Flushing, NY 11354; womenforafghanwomen.org . To support the AWF, make out a check to WAW/AWF, 978 Yachtsman Way, Annapolis, MD 21403) 6. University Scholarships for South African Students. The brainchild of philosopher Robert Paul Wolff, USSAS celebrates its twentieth year of helping low-income young people attend university. Recently, it has focused on students dedicated to fighting AIDS--as social workers, health workers, pharmacists, scientists. So your donation not only educates talented students; it helps