short description for each NGO, what

they do, where, how?

Red Cross / Red Crescent: The International Red Cross and Red
Crescent Movement is the largest humanitarian network in the world. Its mission is to
alleviate human suffering, protect life and health, and uphold human dignity especially during
armed conflicts and other emergencies

Doctors Without Borders:

A group which sends physicians and other

health workers to some of the most destitute and dangerous parts of the world and
encourages them not only to care for people, but also to condemn the injustices they
encounter. The 1999 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Doctors Without Borders (in
French, Medicines Sans Frontiers).

Green Peace:
(Environmental Science) an organization founded in 1971 that stresses the need to maintain a ba
lance between human progress andenvironmental conservation. Members take active but nonviol
ent measures against what are regarded as threats to environmentalsafety, such as the dumping
of nuclear waste in the sea

YWCA/YMCA The Young Men's Christian Association (commonly known

as YMCA or simply the Y) is a worldwide organization based in Geneva, Switzerland with
more than 57 million beneficiaries from 125 national associations

Citizens for Local Democracy (C4LD)

CAVEAT (Canadians Against Violence)
Goodwill Industries: is an American nonprofit 501 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:

is a Canadian based non-governmental

organization founded by Peter Dalglish in 1988.[1]The organization focuses on providing
street youth with the opportunity to lead safer and better lives through three main programme
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): is an African-American civil rights organization in the United
States, formed in 1909 by Moorfield Storey, Mary White Ovington and W. E. B. Du Bois

Oxfam: is an international confederation of 17 organisations working in approximately 94

countries worldwide to find solutions to poverty and what it considers injustice around the world

International PEN:

is a worldwide association of writers, founded in London in

1921 to promote friendship and intellectual co-operation among writers everywhere. The
association has autonomous International PEN centers in over 100 countries.
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Amnesty International (Video)

is a non-governmental organisation
focused on human rights with over 7 million members and supporters around the