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    This document summarizes the missions of several humanitarian and advocacy organizations, including the Red Cross, Doctors Without Borders, Greenpeace, YMCA/YWCA, Citizens for Local Democracy, CAVEAT, Goodwill Industries, Street Kids International, NAACP, Oxfam, International PEN, and Amnesty International. It provides brief descriptions of each organization's goals and purposes as stated on their respective websites, focusing on improving lives, protecting human and civil rights, promoting social justice and equality, preventing violence, and stopping human rights abuses around the world.

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    This document summarizes the missions of several humanitarian and advocacy organizations, including the Red Cross, Doctors Without Borders, Greenpeace, YMCA/YWCA, Citizens for Local Democracy, CAVEAT, Goodwill Industries, Street Kids International, NAACP, Oxfam, International PEN, and Amnesty International. It provides brief descriptions of each organization's goals and purposes as stated on their respective websites, focusing on improving lives, protecting human and civil rights, promoting social justice and equality, preventing violence, and stopping human rights abuses around the world.

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    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.( red cross web site )
    Doctors Without Borders : Amid the Parisian
    upheavals of May 1968, a group of young doctors
    decided to go and help victims of wars and major
    disasters. This new brand of humanitarianism would
    reinvent the concept of emergency aid. They were to
    become Mdecins Sans Frontires (MSF), known
    internationally in English as Doctors Without Borders.
    (doctor without border web site)
    Green Peace : Greenpeace is an independent global
    campaigning organization that acts to change
    attitudes and behaviour, to protect and conserve the
    environment and to promote peace.( green peace

    web site)
    YWCA/YMCA : The National Capital Region YMCAYWCA is Ottawas leading resource for health, fitness and
    recreation, child care, camping and outdoor education, and
    social services. ( ywca/ymca web site )
    Citizens for Local Democracy (C4LD) : Many
    organizations struggle to gather meaningful input from their
    constituents. We convene diverse groups in structured education
    and democratic deliberation scenarios, generating structured
    feedback to help you solve pressing issues. We offer our expertise
    to public and private institutions to advance engagement that
    promotes knowledge and personal agency, not confusion and
    apathy. (Jefferson Center )

    CAVEAT (Canadians Against Violence) : We help


    women in Canada to move out of violence by funding
    emergency shelters, support programs, and effective followup programs. We also invest in school-based violenceprevention programs, where girls and boys learn how to stop
    the violence for good. ( Canadian womans violence).
    Goodwill Industries : Plan is a global movement for
    change, mobilizing millions of people around the world to
    support social justice for children in developing countries.
    (plan Canada web site)
    Street Kids International : For over 75 years, Children
    International has been providing critical assistance to
    children and families struggling in terrible poverty. Through
    our one-to-one child sponsorship Program, we reduce the
    burden of poverty on impoverished children, invest in their
    potential and provide them with opportunities to grow up
    healthy, educated and prepared to succeed and contribute to
    society. ( children international )
    National Association for the Advancement of Colored
    People (NAACP) : The mission of the National
    Association for the Advancement of Colored People is to
    ensure the political, educational, social, and economic
    equality of rights of all persons and to eliminate race-based
    discrimination. ( NAAPC web site)
    Oxfam : Oxfam Canadas 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. ( Oxfam Canada web site )
    International PEN : PEN International promotes literature
    and freedom of expression and is governed by the PEN
    Charter and the principles it embodies: unhampered
    transmission of thought within each nation and between all
    nations. ( international pen web site)

    Amnesty International : We uncover the truth about


    human rights abuses, and mobilize individuals to take
    action so that human rights abuses are stopped,
    individuals and communities are protected, and
    perpetrators of human rights violations are brought to
    justice. ( amnesty International web site )

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