Voices January 2019
Thanks to you, we’ve reached 22.3 million people in the past year with life-saving emergency aid or life-changing solutions to help tackle poverty. These are just some of their many stories.
BLOGS
Thank you for tackling poverty with us in 2018
When people needed help in 2018, you gave them hope.
Clean water means a bright future
Thanks to Oxfam supporters, Miriam's community in rural Zambia has clean, safe, water every single day.
Let me tell you about the strong women I met in Zambia
Let Oxfam Australia's storyteller, Kate, tell you about the strong women she met in Zambia, and how they fight to keep cholera from taking their loved ones.
What She Makes Game
Try out this classroom round table role play/ debate game!
Meet amazing Annie: she’s on a mission to save lives
Annie is a beacon of hope in her community in Zambia. She's on a mission to empower and educate her friends and neighbours about the dangers of deadly cholera.
A shaky arrival in Nepal
Lives were lost, homes reduced to rubble, and livelihoods shattered — but Muna survived. And amid the chaos, she welcomed her second son into the world.
Surviving cholera was an extra special Gift for Melinda
Melinda and her family live in a town called John Laing in Lusaka, Zambia. She was nearly nine months pregnant when she went to a local clinic, thinking she was in labour. Once they ran some tests on her, however, Melinda was told something no pregnant woman would ever want to hear.
Leading the way along the Salween River
How one local woman is mobilising villages to show their love for the free-flowing river, and defying those who wish to exploit it.
When dirty water is your only option
Many parents worry about the health and wellbeing of their precious children. But parents like Priscilla, have extra reason to worry — she has only dirty water to give to her children. But together, we can help change this.
