Category: Emergencies
When crisis strikes we respond quickly with life-saving support and help people to rebuild their livelihoods.
![L-R: *Laxmi (7), Tara Chaulagain, *Nishan (11), *Sushmita (13), Sanu Golee, *Prasan (13), *Nabin (3), Sangita Kafle, and *Anju (7). The extended family and neighbourhood friends making up a group of 21 people share this tent at the Tundikhel IDP camp in Kathmandu, Nepal.
*indicates names have been changed. Photo: Aubrey Wade Nepal Earthquake Photo: Aubrey Wade/Oxfam](https://www.oxfam.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Nepal_response2_Aubrey-Wade-Oxfam_648x431.jpg)
Oxfam responds to Nepal earthquake: people of Nepal in dire need.
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The heartbreaking aftermath of the Nepal earthquake continues. Oxfam is on the ground already providing clean water, pit toilets and emergency shelter to survivors in Kathmandu Valley camps. — but the people of Nepal are in dire need of more emergency relief. Oxfam is aiming to provide aid to at least 350,000 people but we need your help today. Read more »
![Photo: Shristi Rajbhandari Photo: Shristi Rajbhandari](https://www.oxfam.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Nepal_aftermath3_Shristi-Rajbhandari_648X431.jpg)
Donations needed in the aftermath of the Nepal earthquake
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Oxfam teams are now in Kathmandu responding to Nepal’s most powerful earthquake in decades. More than 3.5 million people are estimated to have been affected by the earthquake that hit on Saturday. Thousands of people are sleeping in the open to avoid being crushed in further building collapses and survivors are now vulnerable to hidden health risks. […] Read more »
![Two locals find safe ground in front of a destroyed structure in Bhaktapur region of Kathmandu, Nepal. Photo credit: EPA/Hemanta Shrestha](https://www.oxfam.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/nepal-1.jpg)
Kathmandu was ever a disaster-in-waiting
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Shaheen Chughtai (Oxfam’s Deputy Head of Humanitarian Policy and Campaigns) is in Kathmandu. She shares her firsthand experiences The densely populated capital of one of the world’s poorest countries clings to the slopes of the seismically unstable Himalayas. Read more »
![People search for survivors under the rubble of houses destroyed by Saudi airstrikes near Sanaa Airport, Yemen, Tuesday, March 31, 2015. Photo: Abo Haitham Yemen Crisis](https://www.oxfam.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Yemen_destruction_Abo-Haitham_648x431.jpg)
One aid worker is courageously telling the world what life is really like in Yemen right now
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Nuha is an aid worker in Yemen and speaking out the conflict now affecting millions of ordinary people in her home country. She shares a firsthand perspective on life in the midst of airstrikes and food shortages: “I am usually optimistic, but I’m not now. Even if the conflict ends soon the humanitarian situation will unfold. Then the shock and the extent of the suffering here in Yemen will become apparent”. Read more »
![Leanne and her daughter. Photo: Amy Christian/OxfamAUS The aftermath of Cyclone Pam in Utas, Vanuatu. Photo: Amy Christian/OxfamAUS](https://www.oxfam.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/CyclonePam_Leanne_AmyChristian_648x431.jpg)
Journey to Ambrym: delivering aid to Vanuatu
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It was on Monday 23 March when the first Vanuatu ferry loaded its cargo of much-needed aid for some of the northern and most remote islands of Vanuatu. Oxfam had 400 hygiene kits on board ready to give to the worst affected communities on Ambrym Island. Read more »
![Leitare, 7, playing on the remains classroom of the Epau village Primary School. The classroom was build apart from the main school building and was completely destroyed by Cyclone Pam. Photo: Vlad Sohkin/OxfamAUS Cyclone Pam and climate change](https://www.oxfam.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/CyclonePam_Climate_VladSohkinOxfamAUS_648x431.jpg)
Meeting the global climate challenge: What would a fair contribution from Australia look like?
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In December, the world will come together to finalise a new global climate agreement. Well before negotiators land in Paris to hammer out the details, countries must announce their provisional targets for the post-2020 period, when the new agreement will take effect. Read more »
![Photo: Phillippe Metois Photo: Phillippe Metois](https://www.oxfam.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/CyclonePam_Climate_PhillippeMetois_648x431.jpg)
Cyclone Pam: the ‘perfect’ storm
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Cyclone Pam is a tragic reminder that least developed countries – who have contributed almost nothing to the problem of climate change – are suffering the devastating consequences of global inaction. The price paid by the people of Vanuatu increased sharply last week. We must stand with them. Read more »
![Hygiene kits are distributed at Lycee Bouganville school which is acting as a temporary evacuation centre. Photo: Amy Christian/OxfamAUS Photo: Amy Christian/OxfamAUS](https://www.oxfam.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Untitled-1.jpg)
“We have had to use all of our savings to buy food”
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“As our plane descended into Port Vila, I caught glimpses of the islands that make up Vanuatu between perfectly formed clouds, which looked still, as if in a painting — the blue of the ocean a calm turquoise canvas beneath. The islands themselves looked ravaged, trees torn and broken and houses left without roofs or walls. I found myself imagining how different this view would have been just a week before, on the eve of the biggest cyclone to ever hit the Pacific.” Read more »
![Lisa and her newborn son. Photo: Amy Christian/OxfamAUS Cyclone Pam Vanuatu. Photo: Amy Christian/OxfamAUS](https://www.oxfam.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/CyclonePam_Lisa_AmyChristianOxfamAUS_648X431.jpg)
“My only thought was that ‘this is the end’.”
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Lisa was heavily pregnant when Cyclone Pam hit Vanuatu. She and her husband decided to leave their home though and take shelter in a nearby church with some of their neighbours. They didn’t believe their house could withstand the storm. And they were right. Read more »
![On Friday 14 March Cyclone Pam ravaged the island nation of Vanuatu destroying and damaging homes far and wide. Thousands have been left with no shelter and no access to clean water or food. Photo: Phillippe Metois Photo: Phillippe Metois](https://www.oxfam.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/CyclonePam_Sendai2_68x431.jpg)
Sendai: why the fight to reduce disaster risk is more important than ever
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Just days after the President of Vanuatu almost broke down as he spoke of the devastation that Tropical Cyclone Pam had inflicted upon his nation, the mood is bittersweet at the closing of the Third World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) in Sendai, Japan. Read more »