Oxfam International is a leading international charity organization of 14 organisations working with over 3,000 partners in around 100 countries to find lasting solutions to poverty and injustice. Mostly their profit goes to helpful causes and to spread the name.
The main purpose of this business is to collect as much profited money from the public which is then used by them to help aid the charitable causes. Oxfam GB, member of Oxfam International, have many charity shops that usually sell, at a cost, unwanted, used items given to them from various sources. All the Profit gained from the shops also go towards the charities purpose in helping poverty and injustice.
Oxfam has approx 5,995 employees worldwide and has near to 15,000 shops worldwide. In 2008, the total income was 299.7 million, Oxfam GB worked with over 20,000 volunteers in shops across the UK, raising £17.1 million for Oxfam's programme work. Oxfam offices can be found in 70 countries and 8 regions
Oxfam is a charity; its service operates on profit. There is a CEO in charge of Oxfam who is helped by an elected board of 12 trustees. Trustees are responsible for the running of, business, in this case a charity, and decide where the profits from the charity go and to what causes.
There are several aims and objectives of Oxfam organisation which is quite famous at supporting the people who are in need all around the world, whether Asia or Africa and so on. One of this organisations aim is to “support children who are in need weather it is providing food or give them an education’’ other works include
Climate change, Conflict and natural disasters, Health, Education, Debt and aid, Gender equality, The right to be heard, Trade, Private sector, Poverty in the UK and Global economic crisis.
Oxfam offers a service, provides aids to emergency causes for free, and sells unwanted items to the public at a cost to make a profit; it would operate in the tertiary sector.
