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When you support Oxfam, you help create a world without the inequality that fuels poverty. Here’s what that looks like for the communities we work with.
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What’s happening in Gaza, the West Bank and Lebanon?
On 15 January 2025, a temporary ceasefire was announced, coming into effect on 19 January. Here's the latest update on the situation in Gaza and the wider region.
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An economic lifeline for women in rural Haiti
By Oxfam’s Humanitarian Press Officer, Caroline Gluck “Unemployment is the only thing we have here”, declared Dumel Deralus, smiling grimly...
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“City of hope”: Reflections from Somaliland
By Caroline Berger, Oxfam Great Britain’s Regional and Information Communications Officer for the Middle East, Eastern Europe and the CIS...
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Survival and triplets in the midst of famine
In the midst of famine, Somali children survive with the help of Oxfam partner SAACID, whose community therapeutic care centres...
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Nine hectares of hope: irrigation in Ethiopia
New agricultural know-how and a sense of community have turned Ethiopian widow Balcha's life around. Despair has been replaced by...
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Providing free health care in Mogadishu
21-year-old Maryana, a nurse for one of Oxfam’s Somali partners, works at an emergency therapeutic centre in Mogadishu. Here she...
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Somalia famine hits farmers hard – but Oxfam project brings hope for the next harvest
Agricultural communities in southern Somalia – the country’s grain basket – are being severely affected by the current drought, which...
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Scarlett Johansson’s video report from Dadaab (Day 2)
By Scarlett Johansson, Oxfam Ambassador. Originally published in the Huffington Post In the Turkana region of Northern Kenya, there is...
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“We walked with our children on our backs”
An estimated 1.8 million women, men, and children in Somalia have been driven from their homes by the combination of...
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Between a rock and a hard place
Around 1,000 Somali refugees arrive each day at the Hiloweyn camp, in Dollo Ado, Ethiopia, just a few kilometres from...
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Smiles in Dadaab
Chee Chee Leung visited Dadaab, expecting the world’s largest refugee camp to be a site brimming over with sadness, sickness...
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Pakistan floods: four days old and the roof caves in
Oxfam Media Officer Tariq Malik traveled to Pakistan, where heavy rains continue to flood the south, and met a woman...
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Waiting for water
Carly Sheehan travels to the village of Dillo in Ethiopia, where Oxfam is currently reaching over 8,500 people with clean...
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