Clubs are listed alphabetically. Just click on the club name to go to the website! Or contact clubs with the emails provided!
Amnesty International at Western
UWO Amnesty (or Amnesty International at Western) is a youth group affiliated with Amnesty International Canada (English-Speaking Branch) located at the University of Western Ontario. Amnesty International is a non-partisan human rights advocated organization with over 2.2 million members and subscribers in over 150 countries worldwide.
Email: amnestyinternationaluwo@gmail.com
Art for AIDS
Art for AIDS International is a non-profit organization dedicated to raising funds and awareness for those most affected by the HIV/AIDS pandemic, specifically the women and children of sub-Saharan Africa. By engaging students through art and HIV/AIDS awareness workshops, Art for AIDS International fosters a perspective of hope and passion for tomorrow’s leaders while providing direct support to not-for-profit organizations across Africa.
Doctors Without Borders Western
Doctors Without Borders is also know as Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) as it was founded by a small group of French doctors. They created the organization to find a way to respond rapidly and effectively to public health emergencies, with complete independence from political, economic and religious influences. In 1999, MSF was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize "in recognition of the organization's pioneering humanitarian work on several continents." Members are committed to raising awareness by participating in movie nights and guest speaker presentations, in addition to fundraising for this international humanitarian organization.
Email: msfwestern@gmail.com
Engineers Without Borders
Engineers Without Borders promotes human development through access to technology. Members of EWB are passionate about helping people gain access to the technology they need to improve their lives. We do so by contributing our knowledge, financial resources, volunteer time, skills, and collective voice to help communities around the world.
Email: uwo@ewb.ca
Free the Children
Free The Children is the largest network of children helping children through education in the world. Through our organization's unique youth-driven approach, more than one million young people have been involved in our innovative programs in more than 45 countries. Founded by international child rights activist Craig Kielburger, Free The Children has an established track-record of success, with three nominations for the Nobel Peace Prize.
GLOBE (Huron)
GLOBE is a students' group at Huron University College in London, Ontario that is dedicated to fostering and cultivating effective forms of public education, activism, and dialogue on contemporary issues concerning human dignity, social justice, human rights, environmental change, and human conflict. GLOBE facilitates the work of students at who wish to found other students' groups on campus, and creates partnerships with other on- and off-campus groups.
Email: huronglobe@gmail.org
Habitat for Humanity
Habitat for Humanity Canada is a national, non-profit organization, working to build affordable housing with the ultimate goal of breaking the cycle of poverty. You can help Habitat to achieve this goal, on both a local and international scale.
Email: habitatuwo@gmail.com
International Women's Human Rights Project
The International Women's Human Rights Project is a dynamic group of women and men on campus who are concerned about women's rights issues. Together, this group aims to foster awareness about women's rights issues at both the local and global levels.
Email: iwhrp_uwo@yahoo.ca
Oxfam
We are an official local group of Oxfam Canada, and as such we strive to promote Oxfam's goals of alleviating poverty, promoting human rights and empowering women. Past events have included: Stand Up and Speak Out Against Poverty, Buy Nothing Day, World AIDS Day, World Water Day.
Email: westernoxfam@gmail.com
Rebuilding Health in Rwanda
Students for Rebuilding Health in Rwanda (SRHIR) is a registered charity organization with a collaborative international effort to build a sustainable, and effective health care system for Rwandan citizens in which all individuals, regardless of sex, age or tribe, can gain access to quality medical care.
Email: uwo.rhir@gmail.com
Red Cross
The UWO Red Cross Society works in partnership with the regional London/Middlesex Red Cross branch to fundraise and increase awareness for Humanitarian Crises acknowledged by the International and Canadian Red Cross Societies. We provide our members with a wide variety of volunteer opportunities within the London community.
Email:usc.clubs.redcross@uwo.ca
Right to Play
Right To Play (RTP) is an athlete-driven international humanitarian organization that uses specially designed sport and play programs to encourage the healthy physical, social and emotional development of the world's most disadvantaged children and their communities. RTP @ UWO's purpose is to raise funds and create awareness for RTP through specially designed play days in London community school.
Email: rtp.uwo@gmail.com
Rotaract
Being a Rotaract member means you’ll have the opportunity to get a lot of experience out in the London community: whether it is working with families that have children with juvenile diabetes in our free annual camp, making spaghetti dinners at the Women’s shelter, serving hot meals at a local soup kitchen, or even participating in some of our unique fundraising events, you’ll always be making a difference. But we don’t limit ourselves to just to the London community; we do fundraising on the Western campus and have donated and participated internationally as well. Rotaract is an excellent way for those of you who have busy schedules and are unable to make a regular commitment to volunteer to get involved. We are currently the largest Rotaract club in North America, and are always looking to welcome new members.
Email: usc.clubs.rotaract@uwo.ca
Save the Children
Save the Children activity group at U.W.O is committed to increasing awareness and advocacy about Save the Children Canada's mission; which is to fulfill the objectives of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. The United Nations Declaration of the Rights of the Child is summarized in five themes: participation, protection, survival, development and promotion of all children.
Email:savethechildren_uwo@yahoo.ca
Social Justice and Peace Club (King's)
The vision of the Social Justice and Peace Club is to bring together the students and faculty of Kings University College. On a broader scale, we would like to see our local community come together as one; working together on behalf of the disadvantaged, to challenge both local and international injustices. We want to use our education as a tool for change, to spread awareness, to ignite a passion, and to act.
Email: sjpclub@kucsc.com
STAND Western
STAND Western is a part of a national youth based anti-genocide group, working to mobilize Canadian citizens and politicians to take immediate, effective, and serious action against the genocide in Darfur, and to make such a response an important part of Canadian foreign policy. As an organization, we work to provide UWO students and London residents with the tools and resources they need to make a difference. We coordinate events throughout the school year to educate and advocate, and sustain an ongoing awareness campaign.
Email: western@standcanada.org
UNICEF Western
UNICEF Western serves as a campus chapter of UNICEF Canada, and aims to both raise awareness and fundraise for UNICEF's global mandate and mission, as well as to educated students on how they can help children around the world.
Email: info@unicefwestern.com
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War Child
War Child International is a network of independent organisations, working across the world to help children affected by war. War Child was founded upon a fundamental goal: to advance the cause of peace through investing hope in the lives of children caught up in the horrors of war. King's War Child club is focusing on three important aspects of the War Child Canada vision: awareness, education and fundraising. Currently War Child funds projects in seven conflict-affected countries including Darfur, Sri Lanka and Afghanistan. The proceeds our club raises helps fund youth and women education and empowerment in those seven countries.
Email: kingswarchild@gmail.com
Watercan @ Western
A USC ratified club that raises awareness of the global water problems and fundraisers for the national corporation WaterCan which provides clean water education and resources to Africa
Email:watercan.western@gmail.com
Western Microcredit Society
Inspired by 2006 Nobel Peace Prize Winner Muhammad Yunus, we, the students of UWO, seek to raise awareness about microcredit projects, while fundraising to provide the economically disenfranchised access to capital to carry their business ideas within a sustainable framework.
Email: slee346@uwo.ca
World University Service of Canada (WUSC)
WUSC strives to extend the privileges of universal education. We believe that education cultivates problem-solving and resources needed to create sustainable futures in third-world countries. As of the year 2000, WUSC has also strived to achieve the 8 Millennium Development Goals established by the United Nations for the “Make Poverty History” campaign.
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