Good Neighbors USA

Good Neighbors exists to make the world a place without hunger, where people live together in harmony.

Good Neighbors respects the human rights of our neighbors suffering from poverty, disasters, oppression, and helps them to achieve self-reliance and enables them to rebuild their hope.

Good Neighbors implements projects that promote and protect child rights, strengthen global partnership,
and advocate the rights of the most vulnerable in a respectful and effective way.

We stimulate our projects and maintain our network by mobilizing the human and material resources of communities in field countries, encouraging them to actively engage in our projects as an organized group of volunteers, partners, and community committees.
We plan and implement projects that respect the human rights of children based on our unchanged belief in human dignity under the principle of faithfully fulfilling the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child(CRC).
We conduct advocacy projects, such as campaigns, government policies, and seminars to promote our projects and raise awareness of governments or the general public as part of citizenship education.

We work in any place where there is a need, regardless of race, religion, ideology, and beyond geographical constraints. We promote self-reliance and the sustainable development of individuals, families, and communities. We prioritize the rights of the child. We mobilize and organize local volunteers to participate in developing their communities. We encourage people to join Good Neighbors as donors to participate in our work. We maintain professional accountability and transparency by reporting to our donors on the status of projects and finances. We work in cooperation with our local partners who share their community development goals. We mobilize and organize local volunteers to participate in developing their communities.

In August of 1996, Good Neighbors achieved General Consultative Status, the highest status level with the United Nations Economic and Social Council. Under the Charter of the United Nations, the Economic and Social Council may consult with non-governmental organizations (NGOs) concerned with matters within the Council's competence.

The Council recognizes that these organizations should have the opportunity to express their views and that they possess specialized experience or technical knowledge of value to the Council's work. In 2007, Good Neighbors was also recognized by the International Association of Economic and Social Councils and Similar Institutions (AICESIS) with the prestigious Millennium Development Goal (MDG) Award for our achievements in universal primary education.

In 2012, we were announced as a partner of the Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves, an initiative led by the United Nations Foundation and launched by Former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton. The Alliance aims to partner with nations as well as public, private and non-profit organizations to address the production, deployment, and use of clean cookstoves in the developing world. Its goal is to foster the adoption of clean cookstoves and fuels in 100 million households by 2020.