Oxfam
Oxfam is an international agency that organizes famine relief and promotes development. It was founded in England in 1942 as the Oxford Committee for Famine Relief by Canon Theodore Richard Milford (1896-1987), with a mission to send food through the Allied blockade to the citizens of Nazi-occupied Greece. The first overseas branch of Oxfam was founded in Canada in 1963. The committee changed its name to its telegraph address, OXFAM, in 1965.
Shops
Oxfam opened the first charity shop in Britain in Broad Street in the City of London in 1947. Today they operate approximately 800 shops through Britain as well as a number several other countries. Over 70 of the organization's shops in the UK are specialist International trade
