SPAIN: Best Together: an alliance of three big NGOs is born

This alliance is said to meet the concerns of many citizens who wonder why there are so many NGOs and do not know which ones to select, so that many people, as well as enterprises and institutions, end by making a general giving which does not distinguish between the existing organisations. Another aim of this alliance is making people more aware of the increasing difficulties involved in bringing humanitarian aid to where it is needed. In the nineteen nineties only China and North Korea forbade humanitarian NGOs to enter their countries; nowadays, this list is more longer: Russia and other countries are gradually making the job of humanitarian NGOs more difficult. So far, humanitarian NGOs had acted together often but always in an informal way, so that what is new of this alliance is that it is a formal one. On the other hand, total unity is inconceivable, as each organisation has its own principles, methods and specific fields. This alliance is based on complementarity: Save the Children will care for children, Doctors of the World will deliver social and medical assistance and Action Against Hunger will concentrate its efforts on food. They will launch joint awareness-raising campaigns and will jointly raise money through a common current account whose funds will be distributed in an equitable way. www.juntosmejor.org/activate_frames800.html