5 Ways You Helped Oxfam Fight Inequality in 2025
2025 was a tumultuous year from start to finish. We saw crises deeply impact the lives of people around the world with devastating and unequal effects. As we close the year, from places like Gaza to Malawi, too many people are experiencing droughts and flooding, hunger, poverty, as well as violent conflict.
Oxfam at its core is a hopeful organization. We refuse to accept an unequal world and we believe that a radically better world is within our grasp. We’re also realistic; we know that working toward this future will be a difficult fight. That’s why we are so thankful for you, our community. Your energy and support is what drives us and makes the seemingly impossible possible. Here’s what you helped us accomplish in 2025.
You Helped Us Show Up For Palestine
This year, your voice helped Oxfam Canada make one of our most powerful collective statements for justice in Palestine. Over 30,000 Canadians sent letters to Prime Minister Carney, demanding an end to arms sales to Israel and a permanent ceasefire in Gaza. This is mobilization on a scale we’ve never seen before.
You also helped amplify the message in the halls of power. In late September, Bushra Khalidi, Oxfam’s Policy Lead in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, joined us for a press conference and advocacy tour on Parliament Hill, meeting with dozens of policymakers to ensure that your calls for justice were heard loud and clear.
At our sold-out Let’s Talk About Palestine evening at Club SAW in Ottawa, folks gathered for a night of art, reflection, and solidarity with voices like Bushra’s, George Stroumboulopoulos, and singer-songwriter Jenn Grant. The energy in the room was electric, a reminder that Canadians are united in demanding peace and accountability.
Because of you, a ceasefire has finally been called. But the humanitarian crisis continues. Oxfam teams are on the ground in Gaza, delivering clean water, food, hygiene kits, and medical supplies, restoring damaged water networks, and supporting local partners responding to the urgent needs of displaced families.
Thanks to your solidarity, Canadians are helping shape history, showing that collective action can bring hope, justice, and real change.
You Helped Us Tackle Poverty
As global aid funding faced historic shortfalls, leaving millions without food, clean water, or medical care, your support helped Oxfam Canada respond to some of the world’s most urgent crises.
You helped us push for increased support to communities in need, and ensured that Oxfam’s partners on the frontlines could continue life-saving work - from restoring clinics in Malawi to deliver mobile health services to supplying families with food and clean water across conflict and disaster-affected regions.
Because of you, families facing hunger, displacement, and disease received critical assistance, and the fight for economic justice and gender equality continued, even in the toughest times.
You Helped Us Take Action on Climate Change
Together, we pushed for climate justice and to make the world’s richest polluters pay for the damage they’ve caused. From joining climate marches with us to signing petitions and amplifying our Make Rich Polluters Pay campaign, you helped demand accountability from the world’s highest carbon emitters – the ultra-rich.
Your actions are also supporting real-world solutions, like the GO RICE project in Vietnam, which helps farmers adapt to climate change while protecting livelihoods and food security. Together, we’re showing that collective action can fight inequality, fund climate adaptation, and give communities on the frontlines the support they need to survive and thrive.
You Helped Us Shine a Light on Sexual And Reproductive Health and Rights
This year, your support helped us bring sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) to the forefront both in Canada and around the world. In February, we gathered to celebrate transformative progress from projects like Her Future, Her Choice and SHE, which have expanded access to life-changing SRHR information and services for hundreds of thousands of people across Africa, Asia, and Canada. Through these projects, teen pregnancies have decreased, more young people are accessing inclusive health services, and communities are embracing women’s and girls’ rights to bodily autonomy. Guests at the event also stepped inside an immersive virtual reality booth, experiencing the stories of health workers and youth advocates firsthand and seeing the real impact of their support in communities across Malawi and Zambia.
You also helped empower the next generation of leaders. At our national Oxfam Youth Summit, 23 young 2SLGBTQIA+ activists from across Canada came together to learn, organize, and build solidarity in the face of rising anti-gender movements. Through workshops on advocacy, decolonizing SRHR, pleasure-based education, and art for activism, they forged new networks and left inspired to defend and advance SRHR in their communities.
Thanks to you, people of all ages are raising their voices, challenging stigma, and pushing for a future where everyone can make informed decisions about their bodies, their health, and their lives.
You Lent Us Your Ears
This year, we hung out with Oxfam supporters and made a lot of new friends in farmer’s markets, on the street, at the York Fair Fashion Festival, at movie screenings and at Lorde’s concert in Toronto. So many of you engaged with us to talk about climate justice, fighting inequality, and activism.
Whether signing petitions, sharing your voice, attending events, or joining conversations online and in your communities, you helped amplify Oxfam’s campaigns and activism.
By lending us your ears, and your support, you helped spark awareness, inspire change, and remind the world that collective action can make a real difference.
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