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People Helping People

Collected by: San Jose State University, School of Information

Archived since: Oct, 2015

Description:

This collection brings together websites from a sampling of organizations dedicated to bringing people together to help other people who are in need. Help through these organizations is given through volunteer service, donations of funds or goods, emergency response, and other means.

Subject:   Society & Culture Disaster relief; Emergency Response; Food relief; Humanitarian assistance; Preparedness; Self-reliance; Voluntarism

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Title: CHOICE Humanitarian: Tools For Ending Poverty

URL: http://choicehumanitarian.org/

Description: This site is home of the Choice Humanitarian organization which seeks to end poverty by taking a holistic approach to communities. Through donations and active participaction of volunteers, the group goes into needy communities to conduct leadership training, network with people, mobilize resources, and collect data to improve further in the goal to end poverty a community at a time.

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Subject:   Preparedness; Self-reliance; Voluntarism

Title: National Emergency Response Team "NERT"

URL: http://www.nert-usa.org/index.html

Description: A nationwide volunteer-driven organization, NERT focuses on same day response to natural disasters. They provide food, clothing, and medical supplies, and transport any other good that an area may need.

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Subject:   Disaster relief; Food relief; Humanitarian assistance; Self-reliance; Volunteerism

Title: Points of Light

URL: http://www.pointsoflight.org/what-we-do

Description: An organization dedicated to volunteer work. They mobilize thousands of volunteers to do work that needs done, inspire them, train them, and create an environment that encourages continual volunteer work.

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Subject:   Disaster relief; Food relief; Humanitarian assistance; Self-reliance; Volunteerism

Title: USA for UNHCR; The UN Refugee Agency

URL: http://www.unrefugees.org/what-we-do/

Description: The mission of The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), also known as the UN Refugee Agency is to provide aide and protection for refugees and people displaced by persecution or violence. The organization provides shelter, food, and medical aide and will help a group rebuild their lives in a new country if they are unable to return to their homes.

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Subject:   Humanitarian aide, self reliance, disaster relief

Title: United Nations World Food Programme - Fighting Hunger Worldwide

URL: http://www.wfp.org/

Description: The World Food Programme (WFP) is a humanitarian agency dedicated to ending hunger across the world. This site describes the work of the WFP, contains statistics about hunger, and provides information about how individuals can participate.

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Subject:   Food relief; Humanitarian assistance

Title: Catholic Charities USA: Working to Reduce Poverty in America

URL: https://catholiccharitiesusa.org/efforts/

Description: Catholic Charities USA provides aid to those in need in a variety of situations including, but not limited to poverty, hunger, abuse, education and training needs, natural disasters, and assisting with adoption efforts. They also work as advocates for justice in social situations as needed. They rely on church and community to work together to provide this aid.

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Subject:   Charities; Poverty assistance

Title: LDS Charities

URL: https://www.ldscharities.org/

Description: This site describes the work of LDS Charities as it provides humanitarian assistance to people across the world. The group receives donations from LDS Church members and others to provide food, clean water, emergency response, immunizations, and other service and aid to those in need.

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Subject:   Disaster relief; Food relief; Humanitarian assistance; Self-reliance; Voluntarism

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