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Balaka district, Malawi: Angela writes her name on the classroom blackboard at a primary school in Balaka district, Malawi. Photo credit: Veronica Mwale/Oxfam in Southern Africa

March 7, 2024

Transforming education, transforming lives in Southern Africa

Every child deserves to go to school. But right now, too many girls across Malawi and Zimbabwe are facing barriers...

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November 23, 2018

What She Makes Game

Try out this classroom round table role play/ debate game!

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March 13, 2018

In their own words: Three inspiring young women tell us why we must #CloseTheGap

National Close the Gap Day is only a few days away on 15 March 2018. With International Women’s Day still...

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December 4, 2017

Warriappendi School and Lourdes Hill College help Close the Gap

In many ways, Warriappendi School in Adelaide and Lourdes Hill College in Brisbane are very different schools, located over 2000...

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December 4, 2017

Schools in Action: St Margaret’s Mini Fete

Armed with steely determination, a strong sense of social justice and ‘creative budgets’, the Year Sixes at St Margaret’s Primary...

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October 16, 2017

Teaching Controversial Issues: New PD Workshop for Teachers from Oxfam

Recently Oxfam's own Schools Program Coordinator Annalise De Mel presented a workshop on teaching controversial issues at a UNESCO global...

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July 14, 2017

Four ways Aussie schools can respond to the hunger crisis

Bisharo and her baby are just two of 20 million people currently at risk of starvation. But the current global...

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June 23, 2017

Ballarat Grammar School takes a bite out of hunger

Ballarat Grammar School in Victoria kicked off the 2017 school year by hosting an Oxfam Hunger Banquet, a fun and...

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April 18, 2017

Australian students use Instagram to Close the Gap

“It is our responsibility as members of today’s generation to improve the way of life for the next generation.” While...

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February 22, 2017

Poster design to change the world

The Oxfam Schools Program has released a new, interactive, online and free educational resource, which explores the power of posters...

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January 20, 2017

Schools in Action: Tully State School Close the Gap on Indigenous Health Inequality

Students at Tully State School in Northern Queensland were given ownership over their National Close the Gap Day event, and...

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October 21, 2016

Auburn South students tell us why global education matters

Grade Six students James, Charity, Freya and Aden discuss the global issues of literacy and numeracy and explain why and...

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