Non-Governmental Organizations

Red Cross / Red Crescent :

- The Canadian Red Cross mission is to improve the lives of vulnerable
people by mobilizing the power of humanity in Canada and around the
world. (http://www.redcross.ca/about-us/about-the-canadian-red-cross)
- provides shelter, food, health and mental health services to help families
and entire communities get back on their feet.

(www.
redcross.org/what-we
do )
Doctors without borders
- help people worldwide where the need is greatest, delivering emergency
medical aid to people affected by conflict, epidemics, disasters, or exclusion
from health
care. (www.doctorswithoutborders

.org/about-us )
Green Peace
- independent global campaigning organisation that acts to change attitudes
and behaviour, to protect and conserve the environment and to promote
peace.
- Catalysing an energy revolution to address the number one threat facing our
planet: climate

change.

(www.greenpeace.org/international/en/about/

)
YWCA / YMCA
- eliminating racism, empowering women, and promoting peace, justice,
freedom, and dignity for all. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/

YWCA_USA )
- worldwide organisation based in Geneva, Switzerland, with more than 57
million beneficiaries from 125 national associations.
(h ttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/

YMCA )
CAVEAT ( Canadians against violence )

- non-partisan voice for all Canadians, working together for safety, peace,
and justice. (http://www.caveat.org/ )

Goodwill Industries
- strengthening communities, eliminating barriers to opportunity, and helping
people in need reach their full potential through learning and the power of
work. (http://www.goodwill.org/about-us/ )
- provides job training, employment placement services, and other
community-based programs for people who have barriers preventing them
from otherwise obtaining a job.
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/

Goodwill_Industries )
Street Kids International
- help street youth worldwide develop business skills and health knowledge
to better their lives.
(https://www.charityintelligence.ca/charity-details/105-street-kids-internatio
nal )
National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People
(NAACP)
- to ensure a society in which all individuals have equal rights without
discrimination based on race. (http://www.naacp.org/about-us/ )
- address the major areas of inequality facing African Americans that are the
focus of the NAACPs work. (http://www.naacp.org/about-us/ )

Oxfam
- to find practical, innovative ways for people to lift themselves out of
poverty and thrive. (https://www.oxfam.org/en/about )
- save lives and help rebuild livelihoods when crisis strikes. And we
campaign so that the voices of the poor influence the local and global
decisions that affect them. (https://www.oxfam.org/en/about )
International PEN

- promotes literature and freedom of expression and is governed by the PEN

Charter and the principles it embodies
(http://www.pen-international.org/who-we-are/ )
- campaigns, events and programmes connect writers and readers, strengthen
freedom of expression, defend linguistic rights and promote quality
education at the national, regional and international level across the globe.
(http://www.pen-international.org/who-we-are/ )
Amnesty International
- undertake research and action focused on preventing and ending grave
abuses of the rights to physical and mental integrity, freedom of conscience
and expression, and freedom from discrimination, within the context of its
work to promote all human rights.
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amnesty_International )