Oxfam is a development, relief and campaigning organisation, founded over sixty years ago to help overcome poverty and suffering. Today, there are millions of people living in poverty across the world. Each and every day is a struggle for survival.
Oxfam works with others to overcome poverty and suffering. Everyday poverty kills 30,000 children and it does not have to this way. Oxfam believes poverty is an injustice that must and can be overcome. We work in 70 countries worldwide, providing relief in emergencies, developing programmes that enable people to work their own way out of poverty and campaigning to achieve lasting change. We believe that everyone is entitled to a life of dignity and opportunity and we work with poor communities, local partner organisations, volunteers and supporters to make this a reality. Together we can make poverty history.
"We rely upon public donations and your support will help us continue our vital work with the world’s poorest people. Just £5 a month can really make the difference between life and death."
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Greenpeace exists because this fragile earth deserves a voice. It needs solutions. It needs change. It needs action.
We are an independent non-profit global campaigning organisation that uses non-violent, creative confrontation to expose global environmental problems and their causes. We research solutions and alternatives to help provide a path for a green and peaceful future.
We are campaigning to:
- Protect the worlds ancient forests from destructive industrial logging.
- To protect the worlds oceans from wasteful and destructive fishing practices.
- Phase out fosil fuels and promote the renewable energy alternatives like wind power.
Climate change Already 150,000 people a year die as a result of climate change and the problem is getting worse. The solution to climate change exists today. By reducing our dependence on fossil fuels and adopting renewable energy alternatives like wind power, we can reverse the worst effects of climate change. Greenpeace is working against some of the most powerful governments and companies who are blocking action to ensure they take the necessary steps to protect our climate.
Preserving ancient forests
Throughout the world ancient forests are in crisis. 80% of the worlds ancient forests have already been destroyed or degraded. Industrial and often illegal logging is still destroying an area of ancient forest the size of a football pitch every two seconds. Many of the plants and animals that live in these forests face extinction. And many of the peoples and cultures who depend on these forests for their way of life are also under threat.
Protecting the worlds oceans
Our oceans and the life they sustain are under threat from industrial fishing practices. Almost a quarter of all creatures caught in fisheries worldwide are thrown back either dead or dying, bottom trawling is destroying ocean seabeds and wiping out entire ecosystems, pair trawling is killing dolphins in their thousands and up to 78% of the worlds fisheries are either fully exploited, over exploited or significantly depleted.
Our independence is crucial to our work so we will never accept money from companies or political organisations. That’s why we need the support of individuals to continue our work protecting and preserving the worlds environment.
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Giving4Charity.co.uk is a website set up to offer a charitable alternative
to the gift buying problem
Too often it is the case that £100s are spent on gifts for people
that they either will never use or just do not want.
The idea behind Giving4Charity.co.uk is that you can make a donation
to a charity, sponsor a child in a developing or war torn country or
adopt an endangered animal.