Posted on Thursday, May 21, 2020 at 5:19 p.m.
The NGO Oxfam will close 18 offices around the world and will cut nearly 1,500 jobs, or nearly a third of its workforce, due to a decrease in its financial resources due to the coronavirus pandemic.
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Oxfam said in a statement released Wednesday evening that the health crisis has accelerated the reorganization of its international activities that it had planned since 2018.
The confinements in place in many countries have forced the NGO to close its stores and to cancel events allowing it to raise funds.
Deprived of funding, she decided to reduce the size, especially as her financial health was weakened due to a drop in donations following the scandal caused by the revelations of sexual abuse committed by some of its employees in 2010 in Haiti.
Oxfam, which is a confederation of some 20 organizations, will close 18 offices, including those in Afghanistan, Haiti, Cuba and Egypt, and will only maintain a presence in 48 countries. Consequently, it will cut 1,450 jobs out of a workforce of 5,000 people.
Oxfam says this restructuring will allow it to better target certain countries where it believes its action has the most impact.
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