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Some of the children at Teresa's creche. Photo: matthew Willman/OxfamAUS

November 3, 2012

Keeping them safe: Teresa’s story

This week, we meet Teresa, one of the refugee women that RSS has helped to set up a home-based childcare...

ChangeCourse 2012 participants and mentors. Photo: Timothy Herbert/OxfamAUS

November 1, 2012

The ChangeCourse journey: part 2

ChangeCourse 2012 has now well and truly kicked in, requiring participants to take a leap of faith in more ways...

November 1, 2012

Music: the universal language (and your chance to win!)

If you live in Victoria and love roots music from around the world, you’re in luck: we have four double...

ChangeCourse mentor Aaron Nagus greeting participants at the airport. Photo: Bonnie Hook/OxfamAUS

October 30, 2012

The ChangeCourse journey: part 1

This is the first in a series of blog posts from the scene of ChangeCourse 2012, where young Aboriginal and...

Folders of interviewees at the RSS office, South Africa. Photo: Matthew Willman/OxfamAUS

October 29, 2012

Keeping them safe: building a community

In part 2 of her interview, Yasmin tells us more about RSS's work with refugee women, supporting them as they...

Kids absorbed in their colouring-in class at a home-based childcare centre, Durban. Photo: Gcina Ndwalane/OxfamAUS

October 22, 2012

Keeping them safe: how home crèches help

So where did this genius idea to train refugee women in South Africa to run their own home-based creches come...

Seng now feels better prepared to cope with natural disasters. Photo: Louise Mooney/OxfamAUS

October 12, 2012

Living with disasters – preparedness and response in Laos

By Louise Mooney, East Asia Humanitarian Program Coordinator, May 2012 In June last year the remote, mountainous district of Met...

October 11, 2012

International Day for Disaster Reduction: 13 October 2012

International Day for Disaster Reduction is an opportunity to celebrate how communities are reducing their risk to disasters, and to...

A Rajana artisan at work. Photo: Antonia Taylor/OxfamAUS

October 8, 2012

War and peace: the story behind Rajana’s bombshell jewellery

When the manager of Oxfam Shop's Fremantle store went to Cambodia recently, she visited the producers of our popular 'Doves...

Maria Loretha and her husband Jeremias Letor. Photo: Lara McKinley/OxfamAUS

October 1, 2012

Maria Loretha and the sorghum solution: part 2

In the second part of her interview, Indonesian lawyer-turned-farmer Maria Loretha talks about sorghum's many benefits and its potential as...

Maria Loretha in a field of sorghum. Photo: Lara McKinley/OxfamAUS

September 25, 2012

Maria Loretha and the sorghum solution: part 1

"Because they called me crazy, I wanted to prove their words were wrong." In part one of a two-part interview,...

Alysia with two of her sons. Photo: Timothy Herbert/OxfamAUS

August 24, 2012

The house that Alysia built

Women’s savings groups not only help their members achieve levels of financial security that might otherwise be beyond their reach,...