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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.
The Canadian Red Cross is the leading humanitarian organization through which
people voluntarily demonstrate their caring for others in need.
Source: http://www.redcross.ca/about-us/about-the-canadian-red-cross
Green Peace
is an independent global campaigning organisation that acts to change attitudes and
behaviour, to protect and conserve the environment and to promote peace by
catalysing an energy revolution, defending our oceans, protecting the worlds
ancient forests, working for disarmament and peace, creating a toxic free future and
campaigning for sustainable agriculture.
Source: http://www.greenpeace.org/international/en/about/
YWCA/YMCA
YMCA is a worldwide organisation based in Geneva, Switzerland, with more than 57
million beneficiaries from 125 national associations. It was founded on 6 June 1844
by George Williams in London and aims to put Christian principles into practice by
developing a healthy "body, mind, and spirit". These three angles are reflected by the
different sides of the (red) trianglepart of all YMCA logos.
YWCA is a global movement working for the empowerment, leadership and rights of
women, young women and girls in more than 120 countries. The members and
supporters include women from many different faiths, ages, backgrounds, beliefs and
cultures. Their common goal is that by 2035, 100 million young women and girls will
transform power structures to create justice, gender equality and a world without
violence and war; leading a sustainable YWCA movement, inclusive of all women.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Priscilla_de_Villiers
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.
Source: http://goodwillindustries.ca/about/
Oxfam
is an international confederation of charitable organizations focused on the alleviation
of global poverty. Oxfam was originally founded at 17 Broad Street in Oxford,
Oxfordshire, in 1942 as the Oxford Committee for Famine Relief by a group of
Quakers, social activists, and Oxford academics; this is now Oxfam Great Britain, still
based in Oxford. It was one of several local committees formed in support of the
National Famine Relief Committee. Their mission was to persuade the British
government to allow food relief through the Allied blockade for the starving citizens of
occupied Greece. The first overseas Oxfam was founded in Canada in 1963. The
organization changed its name to its telegraph address, OXFAM, in 1965.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxfam
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. Other goals
included: to emphasise the role of literature in the development of mutual
understanding and world culture; to fight for freedom of expression; and to act as a
powerful voice on behalf of writers harassed, imprisoned and sometimes killed for
their views. It is the world's oldest human rights organization and the oldest
international literary organization.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PEN_International