Oxfam Unwrapped
December 7th, 2010 at 4:00 pm by David Farrar
Oxfam have a way to give a great present this Xmas – a piglet, a duck, a lamb, a goat, coffee beans etc for someone living in poverty overseas. They explain:
Oxfam Unwrapped: This Christmas, change the present and change a future
The holiday season is approaching and it’s looking suspiciously similar to last year…and the year before that. You’re wondering again what to get for that special someone, but coming up empty.
Fear not. Oxfam Unwrapped is here, ready to help you change the present and change a future.
Here’s how it works: you choose a present from the Oxfam Unwrapped catalogue, you get a card to give to your friend, and the gift goes to people in the developing world who need it most.
In the past five years, Oxfam Unwrapped has raised nearly $3.5 million to help people achieve their fundamental human rights and work their way out of poverty. The impact is massive. Toilets have been built, gardens have been planted, clean water systems have put an end to hours of walking to collect dirty water, livestock has multiplied, farmers have gained organic certification, trees have been planted and small businesses have started up.
There is a great mix of new gifts and old favourites this year. Feeling that animal attraction? A Piglet for $40 is a very sty-lish present! Plus there are Ducks for $18, Lambs for $40 and the perennial favourite, the Oxfam Goat for $47. These furred and feathered creatures not only make cute gifts, they provide food, fertiliser and income for a family.
For foodies there are several gifts you can really get your teeth into like Organic Bananas for $10, Chillies for $15 and an environmentally-friendly Cooking Stove for $30. Or for a veggie-patch enthusiast, it’s easy to go green with Honey Bees for $35 or a gift to Feed a Family with a Nutritional Garden for just $20. Along with training in gardening techniques, these gifts help families create a reliable food source and become more self-sufficient.
If your friends and family like to get back to basics, how about giving Safe Water for 100 People, 20 Bars of Hand Soap, or a Toilet? It’s the season of giving, and what better thing to do than help a community take those first vital steps out of poverty?
There are nearly 50 future-changing gifts to choose from. Prices start from just $9 so there are no more excuses for giving novelty socks or bubble bath!
Oxfam Unwrapped gifts can be purchased online or by free phone 0800 600 700. Simply check out the website www.oxfamunwrapped.org.nz to find out more.
With an Oxfam Unwrapped gift you really can change the world, one present at a time.
A nice way to get into the true spirit of Christmas.
Tags: charity, Oxfam
December 7th, 2010 at 4:26 pm
Would you donate money to an organisation like this? http://www.oxfam.org.nz/what-we-do/issues/climate-change/un-climate-change-conference
I’d rather choose a true charity!
Vote:December 7th, 2010 at 4:36 pm
Here’s a better one for you Manolo;
http://www.imanidiot.com/bahhumbug/gullible.html
Vote:December 7th, 2010 at 5:03 pm
It’d be even greater if they didn’t spam you with letters every two months after Christmas…
Vote:December 7th, 2010 at 5:09 pm
The true Christmas Spirit? What is that? And how would you know it if it saw it?
Vote:December 7th, 2010 at 5:19 pm
And here is Oxfam spending your money in Cancun
http://hot-topic.co.nz/coates-in-cancun-we-have-no-more-time/
Be warned, the fools on this web site really believe the sea is going to rise 2-6 meters. The ice, the ice is going to melt…etc
Vote:Fortunately not many people visit this website.
December 7th, 2010 at 5:46 pm
Don’t give one penny to the troughing statists at Oxfam.
Vote:December 7th, 2010 at 5:49 pm
The last data I saw about OXFAM delivery to projects and causes was some 7% of all money collected.
The rest was ‘absorbed’ in admin, donations to political causes, and indeed parties.
Plus stratospheric remuneration for the senior management teams around the World.
This organisation is nearly as corrupt as the UN.
It is allied closely to the Catholic Church, and they could donate a dollar for every dollar collected.
It would then be 107% of all monies collected. Er, wouldn’t it?
Vote:December 7th, 2010 at 7:08 pm
“Oxfam have a way to give a great present this Xmas – a piglet, a duck, a lamb, a goat, coffee beans etc for someone living in poverty overseas. They explain:”
I was going to give a lamb but she looked at me so appealingly that I proposed to her. She is now my child bride.
You are all invited to my wedding as soon as she comes of age and we have both converted to Islam.
Vote:December 7th, 2010 at 7:42 pm
The Grinch has been busy this year, here’s a programme that helps impoverished people into self-sufficiency. If you don’t like Oxfam, there are plenty of other organisations with similar programmes that you can donate to.
Vote:December 7th, 2010 at 7:47 pm
“how about giving Safe Water for 100 People, 20 Bars of Hand Soap, or a Toilet?”
Vote:What better way of sanitising Oxfam’s anti-human agenda that is intent on keeping the world’s poor that way?
December 7th, 2010 at 8:02 pm
This is perfect for Thorndon and Remuera help-the-third-world-and-tell-the-friends-loudly-over-bottles-of-Champagne types but it should be remembered that before these deserving folk get their money Oxfam has to cover off on a very large number of high-paid staffers and lobbyists working up their CVs to be union execs and Labour Party MPs in NZ, Oz and UK, plus other admin costs. Personally I donate to Ronald McDonald Houses (minimal admin costs, kids and families helped massively) and the Workforce organisation (no admin charges as far as I know, plus managers getting stuck in alongside their excellent staffers, helping them to be both productive and fulfilled). Too many ‘charities’ operating in NZ are simply businesses, with sadly tiny real returns to the much-publicised ‘recipients’. As a journalist I have seen some of the PR and marketing budgets, paying for press releases like this one printed verbatim by our bloghost. These alone need thousands of donations to cover.
Vote:December 7th, 2010 at 8:52 pm
Phil Twyford Jr currently running Oxfam in NZ is in no way politically aligned to the hard left.
Vote:December 7th, 2010 at 9:03 pm
“is in no way politically aligned to the hard left.”
That’s very true.
Its almost impossible for a male that can achieve heterosexual erection to be accepted into the Labour party these days.
Vote:December 7th, 2010 at 9:14 pm
Oxfam should fuck the hell off and stop their do-goody meddling in other people’s lives. What the hell has this stupid organisation ever achieved?
Vote:December 8th, 2010 at 8:52 am
Hmmmm let’s not be too grinchy about this. Oxfam are not a charity I am fond of, but there are plenty of others to give to – if you have the money in a recession like this.
But don’t get me started on that “Fair Trade” crap. Paying “fair prices” for agricultural goods is preaching socialism in one country to create feudalism in another.
Vote:January 29th, 2011 at 11:04 pm
@GuyFawkes none of what you say is remotely true, Oxfam has 74% of donations going to programme work not 7% – their accounts are audited and published each year: http://www.oxfam.org.nz/about-us/financial-statement
Vote:as a registered charity, http://www.register.charities.govt.nz/CharitiesRegister/CharitySummary.aspx?id=8f391458-65df-dc11-8026-0015c5f3da29
they have to complete an annual return to the charity commission,
http://www.register.charities.govt.nz/CharitiesRegister/NocAnnualReturnSummary.aspx?nocid=b7db9cd2-490d-e011-bae6-00155d741101&ref=OXF14386&cid=8f391458-65df-dc11-8026-0015c5f3da29
finally, they are a secular organisation