• Action Against Hunger
• British Red Cross
• Plan
• Shelter

• World Vision Continue To Aid Myanmar Cyclone Victims
• Help End Water Poverty
• Father’s Day Charity Gifts from World Vision
• Oxfam Australia’s African Miners Mid Year Appeal
• Christian Aid’s Great North Run
• A new quiz night from Christian Aid
• Oxfam Appeal for Cyclone Aid
• Visit the Donation4Charity.org Charity Blog

Don’t know what to give? How about a donkey for your dad? Build a bog for your brother? Get a goat for your granny?

If you’re stuck for present ideas, go funusual and choose from 50 great gift ideas from the Oxfam Unwrapped alternative gift catalogue. All the gifts have been identified as essential by the communities where Oxfam works.

Here are some examples of how a gift can help:

• Feed children’s hungry minds. Buy 100 school dinners. £6
• Build a toilet and help prevent the spread of deadly disease. £30
• 25,000 die every year from waterborne diseases. Give safe water. £36
• Plant some hope. Buy an allotment. £24
• Buy some mosquito nets and help prevent the spread of malaria. £15
• Feed a family for a month. £25
• Many mother’s and children die during childbirth. Help and train a midwife. £46

These are just a few of the great gifts you can give to your family and friends and how to overcome poverty and suffering around the world.

Oxfam's Purpose

Oxfam works with others to overcome poverty and suffering.

Oxfam's Beliefs

• The lives of all human beings are of equal value.
• In a world rich in resources, poverty is an injustice which must be overcome.
• Poverty makes people more vulnerable to conflict and natural calamity; much of this suffering can be prevented, and must be relieved.
• People's vulnerability to poverty and suffering is increased by unequal power relations based on, for example, gender, race, class, caste and disability; women, who make up a majority of the world's poor, are especially disadvantaged.
• Working together we can build a just and safer world, in which people take control over their own lives and enjoy their basic rights.
• To overcome poverty and suffering involves changing unjust policies and practices, nationally and internationally, as well as working closely with people in poverty.

Oxfam's Identity

• Oxfam works internationally as part of a world-wide movement to build a just and safer world.
• Oxfam is an independent British organisation, registered as a charity, affiliated to Oxfam International, with partners, volunteers, supporters, and staff of many nationalities.
• Oxfam is accountable both to those who support it and to those whom it seeks to benefit by its efforts.

Oxfam's Culture

Reflects a passionate commitment to overcoming the injustice of poverty and suffering. We seek to be:

• Making a difference
• Innovative
• Collaborative
• Accountable
• Cost-effective