Crossword clues for oxfam
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1963, short for Oxford Committee for Famine Relief.
Wikipedia
Oxfam is an international confederation of charitable organizations focused on the alleviation of global poverty. Oxfam was originally founded at 17 Broad Street in Oxford, Oxfordshire, in 1942 as the Oxford Committee for Famine Relief by a group of Quakers, social activists, and Oxford academics; this is now Oxfam Great Britain, still based in Oxford. It was one of several local committees formed in support of the National Famine Relief Committee. Their mission was to persuade the British government to allow food relief through the Allied blockade for the starving citizens of occupied Greece. The first overseas Oxfam was founded in Canada in 1963. The organization changed its name to its telegraph address, OXFAM, in 1965.
Usage examples of "oxfam".
At last I settled for a reasonably modest top and a pallid floral skirt that I should have despatched to Oxfam ages ago.
Every time I wore it I swore its next journey would be to the Oxfam shop.
I knew I should just sweep up all this stuff, cram it into bin bags, and take it to an Oxfam shop.
He deduces that the angular woman in the Oxfam dress who fusses over the bottles is Mrs Hodgkinson.
Behind him pads the editor: Mackintosh is thankful that his fellow conspirator chose trainers in the Oxfam shop rather than leather shoes which make every footfall reverberate through the house.
Oxfam stops sending aid to the third world and concentrates on the immense poverty sprawling over England like white film over a blind eye.