Oxfam Australia | Charity Tackling Inequality to End Poverty

Mary-Jane Espartinez has been volunteering with the Volunteer Engagement Team in Melbourne for more than a year. Here she tells us about how she first heard about Oxfam and what she’s gained from volunteering.
In my VCE Global Politics class, I selected Oxfam for an assessment/essay that aimed to analyse the effectiveness of a non-governmental organisation....

When you’re working to stamp out poverty, gender matters. Why?
Because discrimination and injustice are major causes of poverty worldwide. And if you’re a woman or a girl, you’re more likely to bear the brunt of it.
In some societies, women are denied an education; a move that can deny them the right to be financially independent without a partner or a family to support them....

The Close the Gap campaign aims to end the appalling life expectancy gap between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples and non-Indigenous Australians by 2030.
Over the last 10 years people like you have kept this issue front and centre. People like you have raised their voice, got involved and taken action. People like you have made a real difference to Indigenous health....

We’ve created an Instagram photo challenge especially for Australian students to help Close the Gap.
If you’re into Instagram, you may have noticed these little things called photo challenges taking the world by storm.
Every day, people create themes that inspire thousands of people to get creative, take photos and post them onto Instagram....