Oxfam America

How Your Donations are Spent

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For more information about these charts, please download a copy of our 2006 Annual Report.

2006 sources of funds chart

2006 uses of funds charts

2006 expenses chart

2006 percent of expenses chart

How Donations are Spent

$20  Buys enough maize to feed a family of four in the Rift Valley of Ethiopia for six months.

$30  Buys books to help 10 girls in Afghanistan learn to read and write.

$50  Grows substantially more crops in a region of scarce resources, harsh terrain, and prevalent malnutrition in Peru.

$100 Provides a young student living in poverty in Mali with the vocational training and financial support necessary to start her own weaving business.

$200  Provides disaster preparedness training and technical support to two families in El Salvador.

$500  Secures a small loan for five rural women in Cambodia to start their own fish farms.

$700 Helps to rebuild a house destroyed by earthquake in El Salvador.

$1,000 Brings potable water to 22 families in the Rift Valley of Ethiopia.

$2,000 Provides technical assistance and the business skills needed to better market their produce to 45 farmers in the highlands of Guatemala.