2. Oxfam
Oxfam is an international
confederation of 15 organizations
working in more than 90 countries
worldwide to find lasting solutions
to poverty and related 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.
3. 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.
4. History
Oxfam was originally founded in
Oxford, UK, 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, UK. It was one of several
local committees formed in
support of the National Famine
Relief Committee.
5. 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 organiztion
changed its name to its
telegraph address,
OXFAM, in 1965.
6. News:"Oxfam" For starving in Niger are
urgently needed 1 million dollars
To avoid the possibility of hunger
crisis in Niger to become a
catastrophe, are urgently needed
1 million, announced today the
British aid organization "Oxfam".
According to the organization,
hunger now directly threatening
1.9 million people already in the
next month it could hit targets 3.5
million of the population of Niger
7. According to "Oxfam" hunger in the
African country due to drought, high
food prices, chronic poverty,
but regional conflicts and
why they found refuge in
Niger tens of thousands of
refugees from
neighboring countries.
