Red Cross / Red Crescent

The Canadian Red Cross mission is to improve the lives of vulnerable people bymobilizing 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

MSF is one of the world's leading independent international medical relief organizations,
working in more than 70 countries worldwide and with operational centres and national offices
in 21 countries. Our mandate concerns emergency relief, and the principles we honour while
carrying out our work are contained in the MSF Charter. We launch our operations in areas
where there is no medical infrastructure or where the existing one cannot withstand the pressure
to which it is subjected.
http://www.msf.ca/en/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)

A non-governmental organisation dedicated to the promotion of good governance, citizen
participation and cooperation between local authorities and civil society.

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
UnitedKingdom 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