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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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Harvesting a brighter future: women helping themselves
Living proof that there's strength in numbers, women in rural India are joining self-help groups and gaining newfound confidence, agricultural...
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Harvesting a brighter future: Ganesh and Anusaya
After years working as underpaid farm labourers, young Katkari couple Ganesh and Anusaya are now cultivating their own crops and...
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Harvesting a brighter future: Buddhaji and Suman
Having lived through land grabs when they were growing up, young Katkari couple Buddhaji and Suman are determined that their...
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Harvesting a brighter future: Ambaji and Suman
Since Indian organisation SAKAV started helping them, Indigenous couple Suman and Ambaji have made major progress, cultivating enough veges that...
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Closing the Gap with SWAMS, part 4: Clem
By turns an advocate between doctor and patient, a crusader against diabetes, and a contact point for the Indigenous community,...
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Harvesting a brighter future: Arun Shivkar, Director of SAKAV
In recent weeks, we've heard from poor Indian families about how Oxfam's local partner SAKAV has helped them turn their...
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Cleaning to a new beat
A whole lot of shaking going on: in her latest dispatch from East Africa, Oxfam Australia's Chee Chee Leung describes...
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Closing the Gap with SWAMS, part 3: Hayley
Meet Hayley, the third Aboriginal health worker in our SWAMS interview series. Here, she describes how she puts clients at...
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Praying for paradise
Heralding the end of Ramadan, the Eid Al Fitr holiday is usually a time of celebration for Muslims. For those...
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Harvesting a brighter future: Tanaabai and Tukaram
With four adult children to support and seasonal farm work their only source of income, Tanaabai and Tukaram were doing...
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Closing the Gap with SWAMS, part 2: Steven
In our latest Aboriginal health worker interview, Steven tells us how SWAMS is making a positive difference to the health...
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Harvesting a brighter future: Balram and Seeta
In part two of our story series from India, we meet Balram and Seeta, whose lives have got a whole...
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