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Chapter 5

Organizations promoters of Fair Trade

5.1 Oxfam International

Oxfam is a major non-profit organization and a confederation of 19 independent charitable organizations
with the objective to alleviate global poverty.

Source: (Oxfam International, 2020)

Oxfam International was created by independent non-governmental institutions in 1995 that joined to
have a greater impact and achieve the objectives of reducing global poverty and injustice. The origins of
Oxfam International are in the Oxford Committee for Famine Relief, founded in Britain in 1942 when
a group campaigned for food supplies to be sent to starving women and children in enemy-occupied
Greece during the Second World War. Moreover, after the war the activity of Oxfam continued by sending
food and financial help to the poorest around Europe, and when the situation improves, the activity of the
organization expanded to bring help to the needed in developing countries. The organization supports fair
trade through its retailers where fair trade products are at disposal of the customer.

Oxfam International is focused and working on fair and justice trade, health, education, gender equality,
conflict, democracy, human rights and climate change, among others. In order to achieve the main
objectives, the organizations is performing its activity in more than 90 countries and is conformed by
19 member organizations of the Oxfam International confederation (Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada,
Denmark, France, Germany, Great Britain, Hong Kong, Ireland, India, Italy, Mexico, The Netherlands, New
Zealand, Quebec, South Africa, Spain and the United States) and 2 public engagement offices (South Africa
and Sweden) (Oxfam International, 2020).

5.2 Ending Poverty

Oxfam International is working together with partners to end the injustice of poverty and to achieve it, de-
velopment programs, campaigns, humanitarian assistance, public education, and advocacy are delivering.
The organization is working mainly in the following grouped areas (Oxfam International, 2020):