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OXFAM HONG KONG SINCE 1976

2019

Report on Global Inequality

  • Oxfam releases 'Public Good or Private Wealth' to coincide with the World Economic Forum. The report revealed that billionaire fortunes increased by 12 per cent over the past year — or US$2.5 billion a day — while the 3.8 billion people who make up the poorest half of humanity saw their wealth decline by 11 per cent.
     

         Public Good or Private Wealth report

2018

Fair the Sheep

Fair the Sheep

2017

Oxfam offices successfully registered in Mainland China

  • In 2017, the 'Law of the People's Republic of China on the Administration of Activities of Overseas Non-Governmental Organizations within the Territory of China' came into effect. Oxfam successfully registered several offices, and has been able to carry out our work in 31 provinces, cities and autonomous regions in mainland China.

 

‘An economy for the 99 percent’

  • An economy for the 99 percent’ is published, which shows that just eight men own the same wealth as the poorest half of the world. It also called on world leaders to build a human economy to fight worsening global inequality.

 

Poverty. Full-time: An art exhibition on working poverty

Poverty. Full-time: An art exhibition on working poverty

2016

Inequality Breeds Poverty

Inequality Breeds Poverty 

  • OTW celebrates its 35th anniversary. Participants and sponsors raise over HK$39 million.

2015

Nepal Earthquake Response

Nepal Earthquake 

2014

  •  Low-income Working Family Allowance is announced through Oxfam and other organisations’ advocacy efforts
  • Holds a photo exhibition to draw attention to the difficulties ethnic minorities face in learning Chinese
  • ‘Seven Years of Exploration – A Summary of Oxfam’s Programmees in China’ is published
 

2013

  • Ya’an, China earthquake, Philippines typhoon and South Sudan crisis response
  • Official poverty line established in Hong Kong through Oxfam and other organisations’ advocacy efforts

Home for Dinner

  • Launches Home for Dinner campaign to raise awareness about the global problems of hunger and poverty

 

2012

  •  Sets up office in Macau
  • ‘Just Bite’, a campaign against poverty and hunger in Hong Kong, is launched
 

2011

Syria Crisis Response

Syria Crisis

  • Launches ‘GROW’, Oxfam’s biggest global campaign on food justices

2010

Haiti earthquake and Qinghai, China Earthquake Response

  • Haiti earthquake and Qinghai, China, earthquake response

Haiti Earthquake 

Qinghai, China earthquake

2009

  • Our first China Disaster Preparedness Warehouse in Chengdu opens to stock relief supplies

Climate Change

2008

Myanmar Cyclone and China Earthquake

Corporate Social Responsibility

 

2006

  • 'Prosperity Initiative' formed in the Mekong to assist impoverished bamboo farmers

2005

Interactive Education Centre

Interactive Education Centre

2004

Darfur Crisis

  • Establishes Oxfam Africa Development Fund to support projects across Africa

2002

  • Make Trade Fair, a campaign on economic justice, begins

2001

  • Education Fund set up to provide children with sustainable access to quality education

2000

  • Launches Cyberschool, an online resource for teachers and students

1999

  • Joins UN delegation to monitor independence referendum in East Timor (now ‘Timor-Leste’); soon after, Oxfam begins implementing poverty alleviation projects there

1998

  • Its first book (in Chinese) on poverty alleviation in Mainland China is published

1997

  • Its first book (in Chinese) on poverty alleviation in Mainland China is published
  • Oxfam Club, a global citizenship programme for Hong Kong youth, is formed

1996

Hong Kong

  • Anti-poverty projects begin in Hong Kong and a major research report is published 

Oxfam Rice Sale

  • Oxfam Rice Sale begins, an annual fundraiser to support projects in Mainland China

1995

Oxfam Hong Kong

  • Oxfam Hong Kong becomes a founding member of international confederation of Oxfam

Oxfam Grants for Development Education Projects in Hong Kong

Oxfam Grants for Development Education Projects

 

1994

  • Rwanda genocide response 

Laos, Malawi and Sudan

1993

Bangladesh and India

1992

Hunger Banquet

Oxfam China Development Fund

  • Establishes Oxfam China Development Fund to support projects in Mainland China

1991

  • Monthly donor programme (later called ‘Oxfam Partners’) begins

1988

Vietnam

1987

Mainland China

Mozambique

  • First community development project in Africa (in Mozambique

1986

Hong Kong

  • Advocacy for Vietnamese migrants/refugees’ rights in Hong Kong begins

Philippines

  • The agency’s first community development project begins (in the Philippines

1984

  • Ethiopia famine response

1981

Oxfam Trailwalker

1977

The Oxfam Shop

1976

Oxfam Hong Kong

  • Volunteers set up Oxfam Hong Kong