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 OXFAM
SIERRA LEONE
Oxfam International was formed in 1995 by a group of independent non-governmental organizations. They joined together as a confederation to maximise efficiency and achieve a greater impact to reduce global poverty and injustice.
The name “Oxfam” comes from the Oxford Committee for Famine Relief, founded in Britain in 1942. The group campaigned for food supplies to be sent through an allied naval blockade to starving women and children in enemy-occupied Greece during the Second World War.
Oxfam started operations in Sierra Leone in 1998, with relief work focused on emergency water, sanitation and hygiene provision in the context of the civil war that was ongoing at the time. Since 2004, we have shifted our program towards a more development-orientated approach working in both urban and rural areas. Our work focuses on good governance, gender equality, energy, food security and livelihoods, education, water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH).
Currently, Oxfam is supporting the right to a sustainable livelihood, the right to basic social services, the right to life and security and the right to be heard.
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