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Oxfam America

Thematic Focus Areas

Disaster Relief
Hunger
Climate Resilience
Climate ResilienceDisaster ReliefHunger
Global organization working to end the injustice of poverty.
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Oxfam America

EIN

23-7069110

CFC Number

11681

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What if the key to ending poverty was already in place?

Poverty isn’t just a lack of income. It becomes a barrier that controls daily decisions, limits opportunities, disrupts stability, and makes it hard to see a way forward. Yet in many corners of the world, community members are taking the initiative to regain direction over their futures. Whether they’re launching small businesses, building grassroots support systems, or sharing knowledge within their communities, these individuals are working with limited resources and a bold sense of purpose to lay the foundation for a more secure and self-sustaining path forward. This growing momentum is made possible through the partnership of organizations that provide...
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Charity Photos

  • Title: Reclaiming Their Ecosystem
  • Charity: Oxfam America
  • Country: Cambodia
  • Photo Credit: Savann Deurm/Oxfam A

  • Title: Starting Small to Create Large Interventions
  • Charity: Oxfam America
  • Country: Kenya, Burkina Faso
  • Photo Credit: Maji Milele, Ltd.

  • Title: North Carolina farm workers. 2019
  • Charity: Oxfam America
  • Country: United States of America
  • Photo Credit: Lianne Milton/Panos for Oxfam America

Oxfam champions workers’ rights and challenges the extreme concentration of global wealth and power. We expose corporate abuses of power and practices that put workers at risk, illuminating discrimination facing immigrants, refugees, people of color, and women.

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OXFAM AMERICA : Starting small to create large interventions
Veronica Wambui, a water vendor in Korogocho, Kenya, was faced with a stark reality when the pandemic hit. Members of her community—an informal settlement with little infrastructure—could no longer pay for water, which put her livelihood at risk. But Wambui soon learned that Oxfam partner Koch Hope was providing water to her settlement as part of its COVID-19 response, and that Koch Hope needed vendors. Wambui signed on as a contractor, which not only kept her business afloat, but also allowed her to provide an essential service to her community. Oxfam and Koch Hope began this work in April 2021 as part of a project called Tuko Pamoja (We Are in This Together). Tuko Pamoja is part of a larger effort supported by #StartSmall, a philanthropic initiative launched by Jack Dorsey, Block Head, Chairman, and cofounder of Block Inc. In the last year, funding from #StartSmall supported projects to address...
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