Oxfam is an international confederation of 17 organizations working in approximately 94 countries worldwide (including UK) to find solutions to poverty and what it considers 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. 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. Oxfam was originally founded at 17 Broad Street in Oxford, Oxfordshire 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. It was one of several local committees formed in support of the National Famine Relief Committee. Their mission was to persuade the British government to allow food relief through the Allied blockade for the starving citizens of occupied Greece. The first overseas Oxfam was founded in Canada in 1963. The organization changed its name to its telegraph address, OXFAM, in 1965. We at Oxfam Garston aim to aid the actions of the overall charity, but would consider our main priority to be our customers, and the community of Garston. For over 15 years Oxfam has proudly been a part of the social backdrop in Garston; in that time we have helped countless people and made some great friends in the process. Our main work in the UK is based around the growing number ofhouseholds falling below the poverty line, at Oxfam we believe that everyone should have enough money to feed themselves and their families with dignity, without relying on charity. That's why we're working with Unilever, the Trussell Trust, FareShare and to highlight and tackle the causes of hunger in the UK. But while we work on the larger problem shops like ours aim to provide a way to help everyone; and from the bottom of our hearts we thank you for any donations. For a more indepth look at the work we do in the UK visit: http://www.oxfam.org.uk/what-we-do/issues-we-work-on/poverty-in-the-uk
