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.
They are dedicated to improve the situation of the most vulnerable throughout
the world.
People can voluntarily demonstrate their caring for others in need.
They have values such as human values, respect and dignity, accountability, and
safety
http://www.redcross.ca/about-us/about-the-canadian-red-cross

Doctors Without Borders

We are Doctors Without Borders/Mdecins Sans Frontires (MSF). We help
people worldwide where the need is greatest, delivering emergency medical aid
to people affected by conflict, epidemics, disasters, or exclusion from health
care.
http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/about-us

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 by:

Creating an energy revolution to address the number one threat facing our planet:
climate change.
Protecting the world's ancient forests and the animals, plants and people that depend
on them.
Defending our oceans by challenging wasteful and destructive fishing, and creating a
global network of marine reserves.
Campaigning for sustainable agriculture by rejecting genetically engineered
organisms, protecting biodiversity and encouraging socially responsible farming.
Creating a toxic free future with safer alternatives to hazardous chemicals in today's
products and manufacturing.
http://www.greenpeace.org/canada/en/About-us/

YWCA/YMCA
The YMCA takes a holistic approach to community health that embodies all aspects of
physical, mental and social well-being. We engage with the community to provide
customized programs that support local needs while embracing diversity. The YMCA of
Greater Toronto is dedicated to making our communities home to the healthiest
children, teens and young adults.
https://ymcagta.org/about-us

Citizens for Local Democracy (C4LD)

is a non-governmental organisation dedicated to the promotion of good
governance, citizen participation and cooperation between local authorities and
civil society. Young- Youth Organisations Unified For New Generations: The aim
of this project is to strengthen the role of civil society in promoting democratic
reform through the role of the Youth Council of the City of Mostar. A new Youth
Council (YC) has been registered and consists of a network of local
non-governmental, non-profit, apolitical youth NGOs that work with the youth and
for the youth

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.
Our means of support is a community of Canadian shaken by senseless acts
of violence and injustice. Our membership consists of victims, the general
public, and includes a large youth contingent. The fact that over 80% of our
members are not yet direct victims of violent crime gives our work balance and
perspective. It shows that Canadians are deeply concerned about crime and
public safety.
http://www.caveat.org/

Goodwill Industries
Goodwill Industries, a non-profit social enterprise, provides work opportunities,
skills development and employee and family strengthening for those who face
barriers such as disability or social disadvantage; with the aim of advancing
individuals, families and communities toward self-sufficiency and prosperity.
http://goodwillindustries.ca/about/

Street Kids International

Street Kids International is a Canadian-based non-governmental organization founded by Peter
Dalglishand Frank ODea in 1988. 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.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Street_Kids_International

National Association for the Advancement of Colored

People (NAACP)
Our mission is to ensure the political, educational, social, and economic equality
of rights of all persons and to eliminate race-based discrimination.
http://www.naacp.org/

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.
Our vision is a just world without poverty. We envision a world in which people influence the
decisions which affect their lives, enjoy their rights, and live as full citizens in a world where all
human beings are valued and treated equally. Our 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.
https://www.oxfam.ca/about

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.
http://www.pen-international.org/who-we-are/

Amnesty International (Video)

Amnesty International is a global movement of over 7 million people in more
than 150 countries working together to protect and promote human rights.
Our vision is of a world in which every person enjoys all the human rights enshrined in
the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other international human rights
instruments.
Our 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.
We believe that we are at our most powerful when we stand together for human rights.
Each person, no matter who or where they are, can make change happen by acting in
concert with others who share their vision of a world where everyone lives in dignity.
https://www.amnesty.ca/about-us