The impact of our work

Lift one person through Oxfam, and they will lift others. Before long, whole communities are feeling the impact. With your help, one good thing leads to another.

And right now, the UK Government will match your donation pound for pound when you support Oxfam's Mother Appeal.*


Donate to the Mother Appeal 

Video: One good thing leads to another

Good call

Cambodia: The power of pink phones


Chum Kor's community has been transformed by an innovative Oxfam mobile phone project.

Susanna's story

A rice-growing revolution in Liberia


We're working with trailblazers like Susanna to turn swamps into rice fields.  

Rising stars

Lift off for girls’ education in Pakistan


Getting more children – girls in particular – into school can lift communities out of poverty forever. 

When Ipaishe met Oxfam

Water project sends ripples through whole community


Zimbabwe: everything's changed for Ipaishe and her extended family since she started working with Oxfam.

"Why should you die?"

Supporting midwives to save and lift lives in Ghana


Since 2008, UK aid has helped pay for more midwives in Ghana, and saved the lives of countless mothers.

Lifting the lid on poverty

Life-saving toilets lift threat of deadly disease


In Mukuru, Kenya, the spread of deadly disease is no longer the risk it once was, thanks to a brilliant toilet project.

4.3 million
people reached by health promotion activities

700,000
people benefiting from support to improve their crops, goods or services

2.6 million
people benefiting from improved sanitation facilities 

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* The UK government will match the value of everything you donate to the Mother Appeal, doubling the difference you're making. Matched funding is up to a maximum total value raised of £5 million. Matched giving covers:

  • Fundraising events taking place between 31 December and 31 March 2014 and money paid in by 31 May 2014.
  • The value of items shwopped or donated to the appeal between 31 December  2013 and 31 March 2014 and sold before 30 April 2014 in participating Oxfam and M&S stores in England, Scotland and Wales.
  • Cash donations between 31 December 2013 to 31 March 2014.

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