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"Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing."   - Robert Benchley (1889 - 1945)

The Importance of NGOs

In today's information-saturated world it's easy to feel overwhelmed by the issues that are challenging our planet: climate change, poverty, hunger, health care, and energy. Often we depend on our governments to provide leadership and promote solutions for these problems, but too often the resources needed to have an impact far outweigh what any one institution can handle. NGOs (Non-Governmental Institutions) and Nonprofit organizations often step in where governments leave off, either providing direct services or advocating on behalf of an issue or constituency for government action or support.

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For its third DrupalCamp, the Paris Drupal community is performing an awesome experiment: building a website in 48 hours for a local NGO. A very open application process drew a dozen applications from NGOs across France, with a wide variety of anti-poverty, development, and other missions. This led to the selection of Project Aurore, which is focussed on social development and "réinsertion sociale" for socially excluded groups. Aurore desire a new site to catalog social agencies in Paris (emergency housing, meals, healthe care, etc) so that their targetted communities can easily find what they need, when they need it, mixed with a video blog that reports on the same.

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