How does my money help?

Here's where the impact of this movement becomes measurable. As a third step, you raise at least $100 to support Oxfam’s work. You can donate on your own, donate with friends, or organize a fund raiser to show the power of giving in numbers. $100 may seem like a drop in the bucket when it comes to beating poverty, but imagine the impact we can have together as the movement exceeds $1,000, $100,000, or $1 million.

Your donations to Oxfam’s emergency and long-term work can make a difference in people’s lives:

• If you take the pledge, that’s $100—enough to help a fisherman, basketweaver, or other entrepreneur start a small business.
• If 10 of your friends take the pledge, that’s $1,000—enough for two “cereal banks” with grains, like corn and millet, that a community can rely on if crops fail.
• If each of them gets 10 friends to pledge, that’s $10,000—enough to buy 350 farmers seeds, farm tools, and plants to increase and diversify their crops and feed their families.