I work for a charity organization

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I work for a charity organization. Every year a charity exhibition is held in my city and I work in a stand there and sell products, the proceeds of which go to families without breadwinners or disabled parents. Also, I'm a part of team which devises strategies for raising money for a charity organization which looks after and rehabilitates disabled individuals.


I know that breadwinner part sounds odd, but I don't know how to express it in English. Families that don't have a working breadwinner or the families in which the breadwinner has gotten ill and cannot work.
 

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I work for a charity organization. Every year, a charity [STRIKE]exhibition[/STRIKE] fair is held in my city, and [STRIKE]I work in[/STRIKE] we have a stand [STRIKE]there and[/STRIKE] where I sell various products, the proceeds [STRIKE]of[/STRIKE] from which go to families without breadwinners or who have disabled parents. Also, I'm a [STRIKE]part[/STRIKE] member of a team which devises strategies for raising money for a charity organization which looks after and rehabilitates disabled individuals.
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"Charity organisation" isn't very natural in BrE. I'd use just "charity". You could use "charitable organisation".
 

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"Charity organisation" isn't very natural in BrE. I'd use just "charity". You could use "charitable organisation".
That's what I was going to say. It's the same here in the US.

We also say nonprofit. But we only say NGO if we're talking about nonprofits working outside the US — like Oxfam, for example.
 

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Oxfam, which is British, is normally called a charity in the UK, but its work overseas is often called NGO.
 
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