Help
the Poor
BRAC.
BRAC “is
a development organisation
dedicated to alleviating poverty by empowering the poor to bring about
change
in their own lives.”
Acumen
Fund.
An NGO that hopes that “one
day every human being will have access to the
critical goods and services they need – including affordable health,
water,
housing, energy, agricultural inputs and services.”
CARE
International.
CARE works to help fight global
poverty with a focus on women. By helping women in particular, they are
more
likely to help change the lives of families and communities.
Médecins
Sans Frontières.
An NGO that works as “an
international, independent,
medical humanitarian organization that delivers emergency aid to people
affected
by armed conflict, epidemics, natural disasters and exclusion from
healthcare.”
Mercy
Corps.
The group’s missions statement is to “alleviate
suffering, poverty and
oppression by helping people build secure, productive and just
communities.”
Partners
In Health.
They have a two part goal with the first being “to
bring the benefits of modern
medical science to those most in need of them and [secondly,] to serve
as an
antidote to despair.”
Ceres. Ceres’ work “mobilizes a powerful network of investors, companies and public interest groups to accelerate and expand the adoption of sustainable business practices.
” The end goal of Ceres work is to be able to build a
healthy and sustainable global economy.
Refugees
and Violence
Cure
Violence.
CeaseFire, “are
advocates fighting to stop the spread of violence”
through communities. Cure Violence actively seeks to “diffuse
potentially explosive
situations”
to show “community
members how to resolve conflicts
peacefully.”