Our woman in East Africa
Chee Chee Leung, Oxfam’s media coordinator for international projects and emergencies, is currently in East Africa, visiting the Dadaab refugee camps. She took these photos yesterday.
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Harvesting a brighter future: Tanaabai and Tukaram
With four adult children to support and seasonal farm work their only source of income, Tanaabai and Tukaram were doing it tough, until they learned about the Forest Rights Act ...
What do our students know about the famine in the Horn of Africa?
Ideas to motivate your students to better understand the famine in the Horn of Africa and how they can contribute to a world without hunger.
GROW with us in QLD
Oxfam’s GROW campaign is working to help build the movement for global food justice. Find out more by attending the Brisbane Future of Food Forum.
Closing the Gap with SWAMS, part 2: Steven
In our latest Aboriginal health worker interview, Steven tells us how SWAMS is making a positive difference to the health of Aboriginal people in WA's southwest.
With drought and famine weakening Somalia, community care improves childrens’ health
Launched with a local Somali partner in 2009, Oxfam's innovative community care program to address malnutrition in Mogadishu has reached 136,000 children. This is the story of one of these children, Mohamed, who recovered from severe illness and malnutrition.
Harvesting a brighter future: Balram and Seeta
In part two of our story series from India, we meet Balram and Seeta, whose lives have got a whole lot better since making a land claim and starting to work for themselves.
A photo story from Turkana
Five years without decent rain has left the northern Kenyan region of Turkana parched and in desperate need of aid. These photos, by Intermón Oxfam's Irina Fuhrmann, paint a stark picture.
Closing the Gap with SWAMS, part 1: Katherine
Katherine is an Aboriginal health worker with SWAMS (South West Aboriginal Medical Service), based in Bunbury, Western Australia. In the first interview of a four-part series about SWAMS' clinical team, she talks about the rewards and challenges of her job.
Rugby League tackles Indigenous health crisis
When Jamie Soward became the first player to pass 200 points in last year’s NRL Premiership, he signalled a reminder of just how prominent Aboriginal players are in rugby league. Three of the top five point scorers in last year’s premiership are Aboriginal – Soward, Johnathan Thurston and Scott Prince. Although Aboriginal and Torres Strait […]
