1. Oxfam International
Make Poverty History
Kate Fedder

2. The name “Oxfam” comes from the Oxford Committee for Famine Relief, founded in Britain in 1942
Began as a group of concerned citizens including a priest, a professor, his wife and several others

3. Oxfam began in 1942 by campaigning for food to be sent through a naval blockade to starving women and children

4. The first overseas Oxfam was founded in Canada in 1963

5. Oxfam Great Britain is largest,
with 5,955 employees and programs in over 70 countries in 8 regions

6. 15 Years of Service as Oxfam International

7. 14 member organizations make up the Oxfam International Confederation
United States
Canada
Australia
New Zealand
Great Britain

8. Helping Around the World
working in 99 countries around the world

9. Overcoming Poverty and Injustice
work with 3,000 local partner
organizations to provide
long-term and immediate aid

10. Overcoming Poverty and Injustice
Oxfam focuses efforts in five major areas
1) development
2) emergencies
3) campaigning
4) advocacy
5) policy research

11. Work on long-term programs

12. Provide immediate life-saving assistance

13. Raise public awareness

14. Pressure decision-makers
Talk about MDG’s

15. Speak as authority after thorough research

16. Oxfam is committed to human rights
everyone should have the right to:
- a livelihood
- basic services
- be safe from harm
- be heard
- be treated as equal

17. Oxfam is ambitious helping with many issues

18. Let’s focus on three examples
Debt relief
Climate change
Emergency response
Active citizenship Indigenous & Minority rights
Agriculture Natural resources
Aid effectiveness Peace & Security
Climate change Private sector
Education Trade
Emergency response -Youth Outreach
Gender justice
Health
HIV and AIDS

19. Aid and debt relief are essential to help poor countries escape poverty
More and better aid
increase international aid
support poor countries’
plans out of poverty

20. Aid and debt relief are essential to help poor countries escape poverty
Cancelling debt leaves
money to spend on
essentials
Zambia cancel debt-2005-free health care

21. Climate change is driving the world’s poorest people towards the edge of survival
Problems:
-threatening wildlife
-causing ice caps to melt
-increasing number of weather-related natural disasters

22. Seems to always hit the poor first and hit them the hardest

23. Oxfam’s Approach Respond to serious droughts and floods
Help poor communities adapt

24. One solution is to draw the attention of politicians
global campaign
global problem global
solution
need support for UN deal
raising awareness
UN climate meeting in Bali 2007

25. Emergency Response Pakistan floods 2010 West Africa Food Crisis
Haiti Earthquake
Afghanistan

26. Haiti’s health is in everyone’s hands
Earthquake struck Haiti on January 12 leaving port-au-prince in ruins
Recently the cholera outbreak has caused many more deaths…

27. Oxfam has reached approximately 500,000 people with aid
Provided:
-clean water
-sanitation
-shelter
-seeds
-running cash for work programs
Oxfam has reached approximately 500,000 people with aid across their earthquake and cholera response
Oxfam works with over 60 Haitian organizations
Within 6 months after the earthquake…
-clean drinking water and sanitation facilities to over 317,000 people
-constructed over 1,400 latrines
-cleared debris from drainage canals benefiting over 110,000 people
-public health education for over 210,000 people
-cash-for-work and cash grants benefiting over 125,000 people

28. Oxfam has reached approximately 500,000 people with aid
“We are working as quickly as possible to stop the spread of cholera. We have a lot of resources in the country right now and luckily this is a very preventable and treatable disease.”
-Oxfam -
continues to strengthen water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) infrastructure and activities
-central Haiti: 25 staff in Petite Riviere
-water, sanitation and hygiene program is reaching 100,000 people
-Artibonite: goal is to provide clean drinking water, toilets, and perhaps most importantly, educate people about good hygiene practices.

29. Where do things stand now in Haiti?
Oxfam's priorities for long-term Haitian reconstruction:
Haitian farmers and small business
speed economic recovery
civil society
build back better
debt cancellation
Oxfam received $90 million from donors
-$60 million spent during first 9 months
1)Support for Haitian farmers and small business
2)Ensure poor areas benefit from cash grants to speed economic recovery
3)Support for civil society and the haitian government
4)Build back better (earthquake proof buildings and alternative fuel sources to reduce deforestation)
5)Debt cancellation
-last $30 million over 3 year period

30. Oxfam has its critics Conflict with Starbucks on Ethiopian coffee
Starbucks accuse Oxfam of “misleading behavior”
versus
2006 Oxfam accused Starbucks of asking the National Coffee Association (NCA) to block U.S. trademark application from Ethiopia for three of countries coffee beans. Claim this could result in denying Ethiopan coffee farmers. After 90,000 letters of concern.
2005 New Internationalist call Oxfam a “Big International Non-Governmental Organization”

31. Oxfam has its critics
The Economist pointed out Oxfam’s “simplistic” stance
2005 New Internationalist – Oxfam addresses symptoms not causes
Oxfam addresses symptoms not causes of poverty

32. How can you help??
Oxfam unwrapped

33. Unique charitable gifts that do good
A dozen chicks $45
Goat
$50
Alpaca meadow
$75
Rebuild a
primary school
$1,500
Plant a vegetable garden
$30
A grove of
“miracle trees”
$35
Books for kids
$18
Mosquito Nets
$25

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