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Red Cross / Red Crescent
The red cross and red crescent are The International Red Cross and Red Crescent
Movement is an international humanitarian movement with approximately 97
million volunteers, members and staff worldwide[2] which was founded to protect human life
and health, to ensure respect for all human beings, and to prevent and alleviate human
suffering.
Doctors Without Borders

Doctors Without Borders, is an international humanitarian-aid non-governmental
organization (NGO) and Nobel Peace Prize laureate, best known for its projects in war-torn
regions and developing countries facing endemic diseases. It was founded in France.[1] The
organization is known in most of the world by its localized name or simply as MSF; in
Canada and the United States the name Doctors Without Borders is commonly used. In
2015 over 30,000, mostly local, doctors, nurses and other medical professionals, logistical
experts, water and sanitation engineers and administrators provided medical aid in over 70
countries.[2] These doctors and nurses decided to volunteer their time to solve issues of world
health. Private donors provide about 80% of the organization's funding, while corporate
donations provide the rest, giving MSF an annual budget of approximately US$610 million
Green Peace
Greenpeace is a non-governmental environmental organization with offices in over forty
countries and with an international coordinating body in Amsterdam,
the Netherlands. Greenpeace states its goal is to "ensure the ability of the Earth to
nurture life in all its diversity and focuses its campaigning on worldwide issues such
as change, deforestation, overfishing, commercial whaling, genetic engineering, and antinuclear issues.
YWCA/YMCA
The YMCA in Canada is a charity that provides health, education and social
services, contributing to the mix of public, private and charitable programs and
facilities available to Canadians. YMCA programs are responses to community
needs.
Citizens for Local Democracy (C4LD)

Citizens for Local Democracy (C4LD) was a non-partisan, citizen action group that emerged in
December 1996 to oppose provincially-imposed municipal amalgamation on seven Toronto-area
municipalities. C4LD was also involved in a wide range of other issues, notably provincial initiatives to
radically restructure the education and health systems of Ontario
CAVEAT (Canadians Against Violence)

CAVEAT is a grass-roots charitable organization serving as a non-partisan voice for all Canadians,
working together for safety, peace, and justice.
Goodwill Industries
Goodwill Industries International Inc. is an American nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization that
provides job training, employment placement services, and other community-based
programs for people who have disabilities. In addition, Goodwill Industries may hire veterans,
individuals that lack education or job experience, or face employment challenges.
Street Kids International

The organization focuses on providing street youth with the opportunity to lead safer and
better lives through three main programmed avenues: street health, street work and street
rights. In 2008, Street Kids International expanded its operations to the United Kingdom with
Street Kids International UK.
National Association for the Advancement of Colored

People (NAACP)
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is an AfricanAmerican rights organization in the United States, formed in 1909 by Moorefield
Storey, Mary White Ovington and W. E. B. Du Bois.[3] Its mission is "to ensure the political,
educational, social, and economic equality of rights of all persons and to eliminate racial
hatred and racial discrimination".[4] Its name, retained in accordance with tradition, uses the
once common term colored..
Oxfam
Oxfam Canada works with people to secure their basic human rights, combining support to
long-term development and humanitarian responses with research, advocacy and
campaigning against the root causes of poverty and injustice. The majority of the 1.2 billion
people living in extreme poverty are women and girls. Systematic gender discrimination is a
major cause of poverty. Oxfam Canada believes that ending global poverty begins with
womens rights.
International PEN
PEN International promotes literature and freedom of expression. Founded in 1921, our
global community of writers now spans more than 100 countries. PEN International is a nonpolitical organization which holds Special Consultative Status at the UN and Associate Status
at UNESCO. - See more at: http://www.pen-international.org/#sthash.J7jHpgQy.dpuf
Amnesty International (Video)

is a non-governmental organization focused on human rights with over 7 million members
and supporters around the world. The stated objective of the organization is "to conduct
research and generate action to prevent and end grave abuses of human rights, and to
demand justice for those whose rights have been violated.

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