Read the passage and choose the best answers to fill in the blanks.
There are hundreds of charitable (6) ______ in the U.K. Oxfam is one of them. Oxfam shops sell second-hand clothes, shoes, jewellery, toys and so on. These shops are run by volunteers, people of all ages, and the items sold there come from donations from people (7) ______ want to collaborate and get rid of things they don’t need.
The word “Oxfam” stands (8) ______ Oxford Committee for Famine Relief. It started in 1942, when an Anglican cleric, a retired Indian Colonial Service officer and a Jewish refugee from Germany met. Their concern was the misery and the starvation in Europe (9) ______ by the war. Sometimes Oxfam helps by sending money to community groups and organizations; it organizes training to help people learn new skills or sets up workshops (10) ______ people can get together to talk about their problems and find solutions. It also gives advice, encourages the use of local radio and puts groups in different countries in (11) ______ so that they can learn from each (12) ______. Oxfam also helps people to survive in emergencies, by supplying materials to make shelters, blankets, clean water and (13) ______.
One of the (14) ______ things about Oxfam is the way it “helps people to help themselves”. This means that not only does it provide people from poorer countries with money, but it (15) ______ trains them to be self-sufficient.
