Oxfam

Oxfam International logo Oxfam International is a confederation of 14 organisations working with over 3,000 partners in around 100 countries to find lasting solutions to poverty and injustice . The Oxfam International Secretariat leads, facilitates, and supports collaboration between the Oxfam affiliates to increase Oxfam International's impact on poverty and injustice through advocacy campaigns, development programmes and emergency response. Oxfam was originally founded in Oxford in 1942 as the Ox ford Committee for Fam ine Relief by a group of Quakers (which included Marcus Tite), social activists , and Oxford academics; this is now Oxfam Great Britain, still based in Oxford, UK . It was one of several local committees formed in support of the National Famine Relief Committee. Their mission was to persuade the British government to allow food relief through the Allied blockade for the starving citizens of Axis-occupied Greece . The first overseas Oxfam was founded in Canada in 1963. The committee changed its name to its telegraph address, OXFAM , in 1965. Statement from the Oxfam website.

Oxfam is an international confederation of 17 organizations working in approximately 94 countries worldwide to find solutions to poverty and what it considers injustice around the world. In all Oxfam's actions, the ultimate goal is to enable people to exercise their rights and manage their own lives. Oxfam works directly with communities and seeks to influence the powerful, to ensure that poor people can improve their lives and livelihoods and have a say in decisions that affect them. Each organization (affiliate) works together internationally to achieve a greater impact through collective efforts. Oxfam was originally founded at 17 Broad Street in Oxford , Oxfordshire , in 1942 as the Oxford Committee for Famine Relief by a group of Quakers , social activists , and Oxford academics; this is now Oxfam Great Britain, still based in Oxford. It was one of several local committees formed in support of the National Famine Relief Committee. Their mission was to persuade the British government to allow food relief through the Allied blockade for the starving citizens of occupied Greece . The first overseas Oxfam was founded in Canada in 1963. The organization changed its name to its telegraph address, OXFAM , in 1965.

humanitarian organization Oxfam is a confederation of 19 independent charitable organizations focusing on the alleviation of global poverty , founded in 1942 and led by Oxfam International. It is a major nonprofit group with an extensive collection of operations. Winnie Byanyima has been the executive director of Oxfam International from 2013 to 2019.

Charitable humanitarian organization Oxfam is a British-founded confederation of 21 independent charitable organizations focusing on the alleviation of global poverty , founded in 1942 and led by Oxfam International.

Charitable humanitarian organization Oxfam is a British-founded confederation of 21 independent non-governmental organizations (NGOs), focusing on the alleviation of global poverty , founded in 1942 and led by Oxfam International. It began as the Oxford Committee for Famine Relief in Oxford, UK, in 1942, to alleviate World War Two related hunger and continued in the aftermath of the war. Oxfam has an international presence with operations in 79 countries and 21 members in the Oxfam Confederation in Australia, Asia, Europe, the Middle East, North and Latin America and the Caribbean. Since 2005, Oxfam International has been involved in a series of controversies as it expanded, especially concerning its operations in Haiti and Chad. There have been criticisms of its management of operations in the UK as well.