Where your money goes
Long Term Support
Oxfam Ireland works in 9 of the poorest African countries. We work with local partner organisations and Oxfam field offices to ensure that solutions come from the people whose lives are directly affected by our programmes.
Our work covers many areas. In Malawi, Kenya and Rwanda we support crop growing and income generating projects. In Kenya, we work with the Maasai people on issues of land rights. All of our programmes involve educating people about HIV/AIDS and its effects. Our passion is to help poor communities to help themselves and to have a voice that gets heard.
We also work with our partners and local governments in Africa to campaign for fairer trade systems and debt relief so that governments can allocate resources to basic services such as free education for school children.
Emergency Relief
When you make a donation to one of our Emergency Appeals, 100% of your donation goes directly to that Emergency relief effort.
Oxfam monitors ongoing conflicts and natural disasters around the world. We quickly assess an emergency situation and decide on an appropriate course of action. In the early and most dangerous days, our task is to save lives by delivering clean water, food, shelter, and medical supplies.
But the real damage takes years to repair. Oxfam stays on to give long-term help and assists people in leaving refugee camps and getting on with their lives. We are not a quick fix: we provide long-term, sustainable support.
Campaigning
Your donations help to fund our vital campaigning work. We campaign to bring to light the on going problems that help keep people trapped in the cycle of poverty. For example did you know that for every dollar of aid that the western world gives to Africa, it takes two dollars back in unfair trade? We are looking to change the balance to give everyone a fair chance at trade.
Visit our Campaigns Section to find out more 
Administration Costs
We strive to keep our administration costs to an absolute minimum in order to ensure that the value of each euro/pound that you donate is maximised.
In 2005-2006, the percentage of our funds spent on administrative support costs was 10.29%.
If you have any further questions or comments, please email us on friends [at] oxfamireland.org .
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