Category: Volunteers
Oxfam volunteers are an incredible group of people and they contribute so much to our work.
![Pictured: Nick Chester volunteering for the Oxfam Schools Program. Photo: OxfamAUS Photo: OxfamAUS](https://www.oxfam.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/NickChester_Schools_Volunteer_Oxfam.jpg)
Oxfam’s Schools Program: meet Nick
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As part of Educating for Change, we want you to get to know us better. Nick Chester is a recent University of Melbourne graduate with a passion for sustainability. He’s one of many volunteers who made a massive difference to the Schools Program last year as the Schools Program Officer. Read more »
![Photo: Rodney Dekker/OxfamAUS Photo: Rodney Dekker/OxfamAUS](https://www.oxfam.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/GROW_Volunteers_Rodney-Dekker_OxfamAUS_648x431.jpg)
Volunteer spotlight: Melbourne GROW and campaign event volunteers
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Each year, the Campaigns team in Melbourne recruit a team of event volunteers. This awesome team are a key force in motivating awareness and action around Australia through key areas of our work like Close the Gap and GROW. Find out how you can be an event volunteer in 2015. Read more »
![Photo: Ula Majewski/OxfamAUS Photo: Ula Majewski/OxfamAUS](https://www.oxfam.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/VETVolunteers_UlaMajewski_648x431.jpg)
2014 in review: volunteers in the Volunteer Engagement Team
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2014 was a big year for the Volunteer Engagement Team (VET). Our small team of two in Melbourne have been lucky enough to recruit three incredibly, talented and diverse volunteers. Read more »
![YEP team members, Catherine Church and Miriam Lai. Photo: Emma Durki/OxfamAUS Photo: Emma Durki/OxfamAUS](https://www.oxfam.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Volunteer_MiriamLai_EmmarDurki_648x431.jpg)
Volunteer spotlight: Miriam Lai from the youth team.
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Miriam works with the Youth Engagement team in Sydney. Miriam contributes to social media for Oxfam’s youth program, 3things. Discover our volunteering opportunities and how you can put your skills to use with Oxfam. Read more »
![Photo: OxfamAUS Photo: OxfamAUS](https://www.oxfam.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Yasuyo_648x431.jpg)
Volunteer spotlight: Yasuyo from Oxfam Shop
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This week, we feature a profile from one of our many dedicated Oxfam Shop volunteers – Yasuyo from Oxfam Shop in Perth. Read more »
![Cara Castillo (Events Volunteer) and Jen Duffy (Event Fundraising Coordinator). Photo: OxfamAUS Photo: OxfamAUS](https://www.oxfam.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/CaraCastillo_648x431.jpg)
Volunteer spotlight: Cara Castillo from Events
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Cara is a volunteer in the National Events team. She started her journey as an intern in January 2014. Her first major job as an intern? Working with the events team on the massive Melbourne International Comedy Gala. Read more »
![(From left): Tina Thorburn (currently interning with DET), Kim Ho, Anna Donaldson, Tim Morris and Jenna Tuckett. Photo: Megan Cassar/Oxfam AUS Photo: Oxfam AUS](https://www.oxfam.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/DET_volunteers_648x431.jpg)
Team spotlight: from volunteer to staff member
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Oxfam’s Development Effectiveness Team (DET) is demonstrating that volunteers truly are the backbone of our organisation. Read more »
![Photo: OxfamAUS Photo: OxfamAUS](https://www.oxfam.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/LovelyLinda_800x533.jpg)
Volunteer spotlight: Linda Kernan from Oxfam Shop
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Linda Kernan has been volunteering at the Fremantle Oxfam Shop for almost 8 years, starting back in October 2006. We ask her what she loves about volunteering. Read more »
![Photo: Maddy Lynch Photo: Maddy Lynch](https://www.oxfam.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/MaddyLynch_volunteer_800x533.jpg)
Volunteer spotlight: Maddy Lynch from supporter services
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Maddy has been volunteering in the Supporter Services team since November 2013. She tells us why she’s passionate about volunteering with Oxfam. Read more »
![Tom Dixon, Checkpoint Five for Oxfam Trailwalker. Photo: Oxfam Oxfam](https://www.oxfam.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/TomDixon_600x400.jpg)
From one supporter to another
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I’m Tom Dixon, lifelong Oxfam supporter, fundraiser, donor and volunteer here to share with you the incredible difference that you can make by becoming part of Oxfam. I believe that a world without poverty is achievable and Oxfam allows me to actively participate in making that world a reality. Read more »