OXFAM stands for Oxford Committee for Famine Relief, they "work in more than 100 countries to find lasting solutions to poverty and injustice" through;
1. development work, which tries to lift communities out of poverty with long-term, sustainable solutions based on their needs;
2. humanitarian work, assisting those immediately affected by conflict and natural disasters (which often leads in to longer-term development work), especially in the field of water and sanitation;
3. and lobbyist, advocacy and popular campaigning, trying to affect policy decisions on the causes of conflict at local, national, and international levels.
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