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China Development Brief's database of over 200
International NGOs operating in China.
The material presented here was compliled mainly on the basis of information supplied (and / or published) by the organisations profiled. We have made every effort to ensure fairness and accuracy, but should make clear to readers that these are independent portraits, not 'authorised' biographies.
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Australian Volunteers International
Mission: "Australian Volunteers International is committed to work towards a peaceful and just world. It achieves this by providing opportunities for Australians to volunteer to live, work and learn in partnership with people of other cultures. Volunteers contribute to developing communities and bring a reciprocal benefit to Australia."
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Chi Heng Foundation
Mission: "To promote AIDS prevention and prevent discrimination against minorities, including sexual minorities, through organizing and funding meaningful projects in the Greater China Region."
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Christian Blind Mission International
Mission: "CBM International is an independent aid organization of Christians, dedicated to serving eye patients, blind and otherwise disabled people in developing countries irrespective of nationality, race, gender or religion."
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Cyrus Tang Foundation
Mission: "To serve society, spreading care and empathy from generation to generation"
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Environmental Defense
Mission: "Dedicated to protecting the environmental rights of all people, including future generations. Among these rights are clean air, clean water, healthy food and flourishing ecosystems.” "致力于为人类社会创造可持续发展的现在和未来。涉及的领域涵括了保护水、大气、人类健康及食品，以及生物多样性等诸多方面。"
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Half the Sky Foundation
Mission: "To enrich the lives and enhance the prospects for the babies and children in China who still wait to be adopted, and for those who will spend their childhoods in orphanages. Half the Sky establishes early childhood education, personalized learning and infant nurture programs in Chinese welfare institutions in order to provide the children stimulation, individual attention, and an active learning environment."
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Hanns Seidel Foundation
Mission:"In the service of democracy, peace and development . . . . [the foundation works] to strengthen the economic and social structures in less developed regions in China through education, vocational training and knowledge transfer."
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Heifer Project International
Mission: ". . . To work with communities to end hunger and poverty and care for the earth."
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Hong Kong Society for the Blind
Mission: "To work with and to serve the visually impaired in every useful way, both through direct services of the Society and by cooperative effort with other community resources."
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Natural Resources Defense Council
Mission: "To safeguard the Earth: its people, its plants and animals and the natural systems on which all life depends . . . To establish sustainability and good stewardship of the Earth as central ethical imperatives of human society . . . To foster the fundamental right of all people to have a voice in decisions that affect their environment."
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Netherlands Red Cross
Mission: "To prevent and alleviate human suffering and to improve the situation of vulnerable people."
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Yang Memorial Methodist Social Service
Mission: "To provide services characterised by care, creativity, commitment, competence and a pioneering spirit."
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