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Non-Governmental Organisations Unit 2

A. Read the text and complete the gaps with a word in the box below.
business • funding • charitable • foundations • NGO
world • citizens • government • private • volunteers

A Non-Governmental Organisation
(1) ( ) is the term commonly used for
an organisation that is neither a part of a
(2) nor a conventional for-profit
(3) . Usually set up by ordinary
(4) , NGOs may be funded by
governments, (5) , businesses, or
(6) persons. Some avoid formal
(7) altogether and are run primarily by (8) . NGOs
are highly diverse groups of organisations engaged in a wide range of
activities, and take different forms in different parts of the (9) .
Some may have (10) status, while others may be registered
for tax exemption based on recognition of social purposes. Others may be
fronts for political, religious or other interest groups.

B. Link the following 6 international NGOs to their missions and sectors.

NGO SECTOR MISSION
A. Our mission is to reduce the violence in
1. Room to Read I. Education Chicago by promoting a public health and
science based perspective.
B. Our objective is to bring health care and
2. Cure Violence II. Humanitarian the benefits of modern medicine to the poor
and those most in need.
C. We are also known as Doctors without
III. Children and Borders and concentrate on helping
3. Frontline SMS
Youth developing countries and war-torn regions
face endemic diseases.
D. We have a vision of the world in which
4. Médecins sans every child has the right to survival,
IV. Health
Frontières protection, development and active
participation.
E. We go to communities all over the world in
5. Partners in
V. Technology developing countries to set up a reading
Health
programme in order to develop literacy skills.
F. We aim to bring about social change with the
6. Save the
VI. Peace building help of affordable mobile technology to help
Children
communities overcome the barriers they face.
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