Let’s Get Together to celebrate International Women’s Day

Coffee and cupcakes, curry nights, style swops, jewellery-making classes, fashion shows and even a gospel choir performance – anything goes as our amazing supporters get ready to host their Get Together events.

We’re hoping you’ll be able to join us in celebrating International Women’s Day (Friday March 8th) by organising something simple and something fun with friends, family or colleagues – whatever and whenever you choose.

As part of our Ending Poverty Starts with Women campaign, your Get Together will help raise vital funds for our work, which puts women’s rights at its heart. 

CAPTIONS: Top: People across the island of Ireland are getting ready to host Get Together events and raise vital funds for Oxfam. Top-left: Oxfam is helping to provide legal advice and training to rice farmers like Halima Shida so she can maintain ownership of her land, one of the biggest issues facing women farmers in Tanzania. Barry McCall/Oxfam. Top-right: Dolores Benitez outside a radio station in Honduras where an Oxfam partner broadcasts a show educating women in the area about their rights. Gilvan Barreto/Oxfam. Bottom-left: By forming an Oxfam-supported cooperative for honey harvesting in Ethiopia, these women can earn an income. Tom Pietrasik/Oxfam. Bottom-right: Oxfam ambassador Sharon Corr meets Ester Jerome Mtegule, a Tanzanian farmer who shares her innovative farming methods for the benefit of her entire community. Barry McCall/Oxfam

Women are more likely to be poor, go hungry and be kept out of school.

We know that poverty has a female face – but so does the solution. If women farmers had the same access to land, tools, seeds and credit as men, they could grow enough food to feed more than 100 million of the world’s hungriest people.

Our Ending Poverty Starts with Women campaign ambassador Sharon Corr has travelled to Tanzania to see first-hand how your support can change the lives of women for the better.

"Meeting some of the women who have benefited from Oxfam’s work in Tanzania was truly inspiring,” she explains. “The majority of people living in poverty are women. It’s fantastic to see how Oxfam can help women reclaim their rights and make their voices heard; from supporting female farmers to tackling domestic violence."

"An Oxfam Get Together is simple. Just organise something fun with the people you love spending time with – and help raise vital funds that will transform the lives of women affected by poverty and injustice around the world.”