Race For Charity
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Race for Oxfam Australia
Join the Oxfam Australia team for the new and exciting urban adventure challenge event The Rat Race, around the Docklands on November 28/29.
By joining the Oxfam Australia team you will be not only participating in the newest adventure racing event to hit Australia, but involved in some vital fundraising for our long term development work
 In East Timor, Oxfam is supporting communities to improve their crop yields providing better quality seeds that are more resilient to drought. |
Who is Oxfam Australia?
Oxfam Australia works to find lasting solutions to poverty and suffering around the world. We are currently responding to emergencies, campaigning for lasting change and empowering communities to work their way out of poverty in 28 countries. Oxfam works to improve the lives of thousands of people through increased income, better crops, more food, cleaner water, less disease, greater access to health care and education, and increased power to speak up on important issues. To find out more about us click here.
What does your money go towards?
Your donation will go towards our work with communities, we provide people with training and resources, giving them the skills needed to improve their living conditions. Our projects are designed to help communities to help themselves. For more information on your donation in action click here.
Here are a few examples of how your fundraising can help:
 $25 is enough to plough and prepare a hectare of land for cultivation and harvest in Mozambique. Photo: Paul Weinberg/OxfamAUS |
 $35 can pay for materials to build a public well in Sri Lanka, providing fresh water for 20 to 30 families. Photo: Maureen Bathgate/OxfamAUS |
 $52 can buy a goat in Sri Lanka, which helps some of the poorest families earn a living. Photo: Howard Davies/OxfamAUS |
 $75 can provide training to a group of peer educators who can educate South African school children about HIV/AIDS. Photo: Paul Weinberg/OxfamAus |
 $100 can pay for training for a volunteer literacy educator to run adult literacy classes in a village in Cambodia. Photo: Jerry Galea/OxfamAUS |
 $300 can pay for an entire Laotian village to be trained in pig raising. Photo: Jerry Galea/OxfamAUS |
 $500 can pay for a community worker to lead rural community development projects in the islands of Vanuatu for one month. Photo: Andrew Read/OxfamAUS |
The Oxfam Australia/Rat Race Package
Register for the Oxfam Australia rat race team and you will not only receive a discounted registration rate for the adventure challenge, but will be supported through all your elements of fundraising. We’ll also be there on event day at the village (both Saturday and Sunday) for any questions.
