About Oxfam
Oxfam is an international confederation of charities working to end poverty and injustice, providing aid, running campaigns and supporting communities through its shops and programmes. Humanitarian work connects immediate needs with the circumstances of affected people. Practical assistance gives this mission a community focus, bringing attention to the ways emergencies and hardship change everyday life.
Poverty, Aid and Community Programmes
Oxfam’s activities connect assistance with longer-term efforts to address poverty. Its programmes bring practical community interests into a wider mission concerned with injustice, treating immediate needs and the conditions surrounding them as related parts of its work.
Campaigning and Public Participation
Campaigns give its mission a public advocacy dimension, while shops form part of the wider network of support. These activities connect humanitarian and development interests with people who engage through community participation, fundraising and awareness.
Working Against Poverty and Injustice
Its confederation model brings charities together around a shared purpose. The combination of aid, programmes and campaigns links direct support with attention to the broader issues affecting communities, giving poverty reduction both a practical and a public-facing role. The organisation’s activities can be understood through both the services it provides and the people those services concern. This connects its wider purpose with the practical experience of individuals and families.