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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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Stopping hunger in Mozambique: Ecerina’s story (part 2)
Last week we introduced you to Ecerina, a grandmother from Mozambique looking after two of her own children and six...
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Stopping hunger in Mozambique: Ecerina’s story
Ecerina Adolfo Nhamtumbo is from Inhambane Province, Mozambique. She lives in Quene village, where she looks after two of her...
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The Mekong River is under threat: media updates
The Mekong River, one of the world’s last great wild rivers, is now under threat from the controversial proposal to...
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Talking clean water at the WASH Conference
Water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) is one of Oxfam's key areas of expertise. So naturally, we're pleased to be involved...
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Mechanical advantage: rice farming just got easier in Cambodia
A new weeding tool for Cambodian rice farmers combined with innovative growing techniques leads to harvests double in size.
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Protecting the vulnerable in Port-au-Prince
Johny Estor of Oxfam Great Britain talks about his work as a protection officer in his native city of Port-au-Prince,...
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Spreading the clean water message in PNG
In this short video, I talk to Krissy Nicholson, Oxfam's Hygiene Promotion Coordinator, about our network of communty health promters...
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Bucket hygiene kits saving lives in PNG
Hygiene Promotion Coordinator, Krissy Nicholson, talks about Oxfam's distribution of bucket hygiene kits, in the East Sepik region of Papua...
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Copper mine devastates Marinduque
When Marcopper started mining copper on Marinduque Island in the Philippines four decades ago, local communities could not have predicted...
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Surrounded by a river of cholera: Part 2
Part 2 in our series of posts from a unique village in Papua New Guinea that's built entirely on the...
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Surrounded by a river of cholera: Part 1
Chris Johnson travels to Papua New Guinea to meet people in a very unique village unlike anywhere else on the...
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Helping gardens grow
Somawathi Gunapala, from Pillanduwa village, in central Sri Lanka picks ripe snake beans from the vegetable garden she has established...
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