Pop the kettle on and snuggle up... You can now thrift from the comfort of your own home:
Oxfam is an international confederation of 17 organisations working in approximately 90 countries worldwide to find solutions to poverty and related injustice around the world. It was originally founded in Oxford, UK, in 1942 as the Oxford Committee for Famine Reflief by a group of Quakers, social activists and Oxford academics; this is now Oxfam Great Britain. In all of Oxfam's actions, the ultimate goal is to enable people to exercise their rights and manage their own lives. Each organisation works together internationally to achieve a greater impact through collective efforts.
Oxfam works on trade justice, fair trade, education, debt and aid, livelihoods, health, HIV/AIDS, gender equality, conflict and natural disasters, democracy, human rights and climate change. It has a number of successful fundraising channels in addition to its high street shops.
- Over half a million people in the UK make a regular financial contribution towards its work and vital funds are receives from gifts lets to the organisation in peoples wills.
- Many London Marathon competitors run to raise money for the cause.
- The organisation provides volunteer stewards at music festivals such as Glastonbury in return for funds.
- The running of several Trailwalker events in Hong Kong, Australia, New Zealand, the united Kingdom and Japan.
Christopher McCandless, the subject of the book and film, Into the Wild, donated his life savings to Oxfam before leaving society for the Alaskan wilderness...
Thrift from the comfort of your own home while helping out those who are in need – a very effective way to convince people to do charity. There many starving people out there, but charity doesn’t have to be as epic as Christopher McCandless donating his life savings. Participating in these little and collective efforts is enough to make an impact to someone’s life. ~Alison
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