The first endeavour by Œuvre Léger was The Gold Cross in 1948, which provided health care, training and literacy programs to child victims of WWII in Europe. The founder, Cardinal Paul-Émile Léger, was also an Archbishop in Montréal until he renounced the title in 1967 to become a missionary. This gave him the opportunity to create many partnerships in Africa, Latin America and Asia, and to develop several education and health aid programs. To this day, his organization continues to work both in Canada and internationally.

For more information: http://www.leger.org/en/

CIVICUS : World Alliance for Citizen Participation promotes the emergence, strengthening and protection of citizen action all over the world, and especially in regions where participatory democracy and and citizens' freedom of association are threatened.

Mission

Quebec’s international cooperation association, AQOCI, consists of 65 organisations working toward humane and sustainable development, in Quebec and abroad.

Partnership Africa Canada (PAC) was established in 1986 as a funding mechanism through the support of Canadian and African non-governmental organizations and the Canadian International Development Agency. PAC subsequently funded hundreds of innovative projects that supported sustainable development in sub-Saharan Africa and public engagement activities in Canada.

THE GROUP FOR RESEARCH AND INITIATIVE FOR THE LIBERATION OF AFRICA (GRILA) was founded in 1984. It is an autonomous, non-profit, entirely volunteer-based organization of researchers and activists. It functions on the basis of the material and intellectual contribution of its sections, made up of members and supporters.