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STTK - Brief presentation of the confederation of salaried employees.
SAK - Central organization of trade unions. General presentation, member unions and news.
LionNet Finland - The Association of Finnish Lions Clubs. Presentation of the organization and their activities and projects.
Finnish Red Cross - Brief introduction to the organization's activities, including first aid training, refugee relief and international aid.
Freemasonry - Past and present of Freemasons in Finland. Locations of local lodges.
Lazarus Human Aid - Helping disaster victims, the ill, disabled, children, the elderly and social outcasts. Past and current activities.
Linux-Aktivaattori - Non-profit organization aimed at promoting the use of Linux at home and work through organizing various events.
AKAVA - A confederation of trade unions for academic professionals. Activities and affiliates.
Finnish Youth Co-Operation Allianssi - An umbrella organization for youth programs, providing services directly to young people and to those who work with them. Projects and archives.
Finnish-Namibian Society - Events, publishing activities, development cooperation and information on Namibia. Further information about a sewing project in Opuwo.
University of Helsinki Debating Society - Pictures, history, and related links.
The Finnish Federation of Settlements - Umbrella group for the areas of social work, popular education, youth work and voluntary work. Includes details of member organisations.
Rotary Finland - Directory of their districts and clubs.
Finnish Alliance - Cultural organization founded by writer Johannes Linnankoski. Includes details of famous Finns.
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(Joseph Addison) Organizations Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends. -- Virginia Woolf Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married. -- George Bernard Shaw Work is the curse of the drinking class. -- Oscar Wilde "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them. -- Adlai Stevenson Organizations There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money. -- Benjamin Franklin A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house. -- Moliere "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe Organizations "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued. -- Helen Rowland Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind. -- James Graham The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience. -- Harper Lee Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. Organizations In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican. -- H. L. Mencken "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well. -- Virginia Woolf Organizations A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who marries a man to reform him. -- Elbert Hubbard I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat. -- Michael McShane History is more or less bunk. -- Henry Ford An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field. -- Niels Bohr The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people. - Lucille S. Harper Organizations "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative. -- Martin Luther King, Jr. All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control futur Organizations You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there. -- Yogi Berra "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in. -- Anon. The child is the father of the man. -- William Wordsworth Character is what you are in the dark. -- Dwight L. Moody Organizations Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the wrong remedies. -- Groucho Marx I would have made a good Pope. -- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly Organizations "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." 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