Oxfam 

Oxfam is an international confederation of 14 organizations working together in 99 countries and with partners and allies around the world to find lasting solutions to poverty and injustice.

We work directly with communities and we seek to influence the powerful to ensure that poor people can improve their lives and livelihoods and have a say in decisions that affect them.

What we do
Find out how we work with others to end poverty and injustice, from campaigning to responding to emergencies.

Why we do it
We believe that respect for human rights will help lift people out of poverty.

Our history
Oxfam International was formed in 1995 by a group of independent non-governmental organizations. Their aim was to work together for greater impact on the international stage to reduce poverty and injustice.

The name “Oxfam” comes from the Oxford Committee for Famine Relief, founded in Britain in 1942. The group campaigned for food supplies to be sent through an allied naval blockade to starving women and children in enemy-occupied Greece during the Second World War.

Accountability
We strive to do what we say we will do. Read about our core values and operating principles against which we measure ourselves.

Until 2012, our work to achieve a just world without poverty will be guided by our Strategic Plan, "Demanding Justice."