Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs):

Red Cross / Red Crescent

-mission is to improve lives of vulnerable people by mobilizing power of humanity
- is a humanitarian charitable organization
- founded in 1896, headquartered in Ottawa, ON
Doctors Without Borders
-worlds largest independent medical relief organization
-focuses on emergency and humanitarian relief
Greenpeace
-is an independent global campaigning organization that acts to change attitudes and
behaviour, to protect and conserve the environment and to promote peace
YWCA/YMCA
-is one of Canadas longest standing and largest charities,
-has been in Canada since 1851
-now serves more than 2.1 million people annually across 1,700 program locations
CAVEAT (Canadians Against Violence)
-is a charitable organization serving as a non-partisan voice for all Canadians, working
together for safety, peace, and justice
Goodwill Industries
-uses a variety of platforms to create employment opportunities for people in need
-mission is to change lives and communities through the power of work
Street kids International
-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
-is also a charity organization, founded in 1988
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
-is to ensure a society in which all individuals have equal rights without discrimination
based on race
-everyone should have equal rights, no matter which race
Oxfam
-mission is to build lasting solutions to poverty and injustice with a focus on improving
the lives and promoting the rights of women and girls
International PEN
-is a worldwide association of writers, founded in London in 1921 to promote friendship
and intellectual co-operation among writers everywhere.
- goals are to emphasise the role of literature around world in every culture, and to fight
for freedom of expression
Amnesty International

-is a global movement of over 7 million people in more than 150 countries working
together to protect and promote human rights
-mission 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