What is Oxfam?
[[File:Oxfam logo, 2016 (cropped).jpg|thumb|]] [[File:Oxfam International.svg|thumb|right|300px|Countries with Oxfam organisations]] '''Oxfam International''' is a group of 14 organisations working with over 3,000 partners in around 100 countries to find lasting solutions to [[poverty]] and [[injustice]].<ref>[http://www.oxfam.org/en/about/ Statement from the Oxfam website.]</ref> It brings these problems to public attention, sets programs to make changes, and provides [[humanitarian aid|help]] in major [[disaster]]s, also promotes [[sustainable development]] and [[fair trade]]. It works directly with communities and seeks to [[influence]] the powerful to ensure that poor people can improve their lives with having a say in decisions that affect them. The principal belief is that people should have a respect for [[human rights]] and that will help alleviate poverty.<ref>{{Cite web|title=WHO {{!}} Oxfam International|url=https://www.who.int/workforcealliance/members_partners/member_list/oxfam/en/|access-date=2021-10-09|website=WHO}}</ref> Oxfam began in [[Oxford]] in 1942 as the Oxford Committee for [[Famine]] Relief. It was started by a group of [[Quaker]]s (which included Marcus Tite), [[activism|social activists]], and Oxford academics.<ref>[http://www.halarose.co.uk/blue/p_CECIL_JACKSON-COLE.html Cecil Jackson-Cole from Oxfordshire Blue Plaques Board.] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091211185846/http://www.halarose.co.uk/blue/p_CECIL_JACKSON-COLE.html |date=2009-12-11 }} Retrieved 22 October 2009.</ref> This is now Oxfam Great Britain, still based in Oxford, [[United Kingdom|UK]]. It was one of several local committees formed to support the National Famine Relief Committee. Their job was to get the [[British]] government to allow food through the [[Allies of World War II|Allied]] [[blockade]] for the [[starvation|starving]] people of [[Axis countries|Axis]] occupied [[Greece]]. The first overseas Oxfam began in [[Canada]] in 1963. The committee changed its name to its [[telegraph]] address, '