Founded in 1963, Oxfam Canada is a non-profit international development organization that supports community programes in food security, health, nutrition and democratic development with an emphasis on working with women. We are a member-based organization. Members help to formulate our direction, participate in governing bodies and elect representatives to the Board of Directors.

Oxfam Canada is one of the 12 Oxfam organizations around the world that form Oxfam International. Together we are working to tackle the root causes of poverty, social injustice and inequality. Oxfam Canada believes that people together can create a fair world, free of poverty and injustice.

Oxfam Canada builds lasting solutions to global poverty and injustice. We work with allies in Canada and around the world to change the policies and practices that perpetuate human suffering. We support organizations in poor communities overseas in their struggle to secure basic rights. Oxfam’s advocacy and campaigns for just policies are rooted in the knowledge and experience gained in that struggle.