Your support helped Oxfam make an impact on people’s lives around the world.
2024 was a year of unparalleled humanitarian crises. At top of mind are the conflicts, protracted crises, and severe weather events that are becoming more and more frequent. As our president and CEO Abby Maxman reflected in our end of year webinar, “[Oxfam] works with our head, hearts, and hands, and the heart hurts a lot right now.”
It’s hard work fighting inequality, but the payoff is the possibility we create together. Amidst the heartache, there are always rays of hope. Thanks to our community of supporters, global network of partners, and Oxfam teams, we were able to make great strides in 2024.
Here is what you helped make possible
You helped us provide life-saving aid to more than 1.1 M people in Gaza
In the past year, we worked alongside 20 local partners to deliver humanitarian assistance to Palestinians affected by conflict in Gaza, including emergency food and hygiene support.
- Emergency food assistance, including vegetable baskets, food parcels, cash, and vouchers.
- Clean water and sanitation, by trucking in water and repairing badly damaged water and wastewater pipelines, as well as installing desalination units and tap stands and latrines.
- Oxfam helped partners in Gaza distribute hygiene kits, jerry cans and buckets for storing clean water, and other hygiene items to people affected by the conflict in Gaza.
- Five solar-powered desalination units installed by Oxfam and local partner Palestinian Environmental Friends (PEF) across Rafah, Al-Mawasi, and Khan Younis provide three liters of clean drinking water per person daily, reaching more than 48,000 people.
You helped us protect worker’s rights
In April, Oxfam released a report exposing excessive use of surveillance technology at Amazon and Walmart, and the physical, psychological, and economic impact that has on employees. You joined us in campaigning for better working conditions at the largest private employers in the U.S. Our calls were met with action. In May, Senator Markey of Massachusetts introduced the Warehouse Worker Protection Act, which cited Oxfam research.
In July, Oxfam joined our partner Carolina Amazonians United for Solidarity and Empowerment (CAUSE) and met with the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) as part of an investigation into Amazon’s injury rates. In December, a report of the investigation was published, showing that Amazon was aware of injury rates. “Amazon’s executives repeatedly chose to put profits ahead of the health and safety of its workers by ignoring recommendations that would substantially reduce injuries,” said Senator Sanders of Vermont.
You helped us respond to the needs of refugees who fled war in Sudan
Since conflict erupted in Sudan in April 2023, more than 12 million people have been displaced from their homes. More than 850,000 refugees and returnees have entered South Sudan since the crisis began. Oxfam’s work has been focused in transit centers near the borders such as Renk, where between 500 to 1,000 people are crossing into South Sudan every day. Our work includes trucking water, constructing latrines and handwashing stations, and distributing hygiene supplies and cash. We are working with partners to provide psychosocial support, legal resources, distributing solar power solar lamps so that women can go to the bathroom safely at night.
You helped us stop Senator’s Manchin’s Dirty Deal
In December, Senator Manchin's energy permitting reform legislation fell apart. Senator Manchin of West Virginia has been pushing dangerous legislation to roll back common-sense oil and gas reforms and overhaul bedrock environmental laws like NEPA, that would cause harm to communities affected by oil and gas industries. For just as many years, Oxfam—in coalition with hundreds of environmental organizations—have fought back against this fossil-fuel friendly legislation.
You helped us successful slow down fossil fuel exports
In January, the Biden Administration announced a paused on the expansion of liquefied methane gas exports . This was a milestone for Oxfam, our allies, and grassroots activists, who had been rallying against government attempts to allow the Department of Energy to continue permitting new LNG facilities. With allies, we delivered more than 12,000 petitions to the Department of Energy pushing for an end to LNG exports and a just transition to clean, renewable energy. At the end of the year, the Department released a long-awaited analysis of the LNG industry in which Energy Secretary Granholm, stated that LNG business as usual was “neither sustainable nor advisable.”
You helped us educate future generations about hunger
We marked 50 years of the Oxfam Hunger Banquet®, our flagship hunger-awareness-raising campaign. More than 950,000 people have participated in these interactive experiences in classrooms, on community spaces, and even on Capitol Hill.
You helped us build power
Our vision for an equal future relies on as many of us raising our voices together as possible. Last year, we launched the Oxfam Action Network for an Equal Future to grow the movement. Through our New Era for Black Women Initiative, we met with 191 women leaders across Louisiana, Mississippi, Georgia, and North Carolina to develop a strategy for addressing the root causes of economic inequality affecting Black women in these states.
With the power of local activism on our side, we will be ready to take on any challenges 2025 brings.