The international aid charity hopes to tackle Welsh poverty head on and support victims of austerity in the countryWhen Iain Duncan Smith resigned on Friday,claiming in his resignation letter the latest changes to benefits to the disabled and the context in which they’ve been made are a compromise too far”, many people working at the coalface in deprived communities around the country took his words with a considerable pinch of salt.
In Wales, and Oxfam workers,who have been developing a scheme to support people gain confidence and control of their lives, regularly find their work undone by cuts and sanctions.
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Source: theguardian.com