Strategy Oxfam Hong Kong works in partnership with poor people in our long-term development work as well as in our emergency responses to disasters. Our goal is to enhance people's capacity to improve their own lives, to gain better access to resources and to help them fight poverty. Since 1976, Oxfam has supported development and emergency relief projects in a total of 43 countries. 1976 Volunteers form a society called 'Oxfam Group, Hong Kong' and begin raising funds for Oxfam UK's relief and development work overseas. Begin supporting development programmes in China.
Programmes begin in Vietnam.
1992 OHK field office opens in Kumming, China and Hanoi, Vietnam. Oxfam China Development Fund launched. 1994 Relief work for Rwandan refugees and for flood victims in Guangxi, China. 1995 Research on poverty in Hong Kong. Field office opens in Cambodia.