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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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Middle East Crisis: the latest
It has been over a year since the conflict in Gaza escalated — a year of families living without their homes, their loved ones or the basic supplies they need to survive.
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Women face hunger and hardship in rural Ghana
In rural Ghana, the odds are stacked against women like Beatrice. Unable to take part in the agriculture that sustains...
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Notes from the field: Zimbabwe
Oxfam's Kate Bensen travelled to Zimbabwe to see first-hand how you're helping us respond to the hunger crisis. She couldn’t...
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Mobile money breaks the cash drought in Zimbabwe
At the height of the drought in Zimbabwe, our mobile cash transfers gave Florence and her family a rare glimpse...
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Helen Szoke in South Sudan: Hope in a time of hunger
This month Oxfam Chief Executive Helen Szoke visited Oxfam programs in South Sudan delivering clean water, sanitation and vital humanitarian...
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The women of Somaliland: stories of strength and survival
The women of Eastern Somaliland are being pushed to the edge, desperately seeking food for their children as their country...
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A mother’s marathon for water in Zimbabwe
In Zimbabwe, mothers like Ida literally walk a marathon every day, to provide water for their children. The countless hours...
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Yemen on the brink: conflict is pushing millions towards famine
More than two years of brutal conflict in Yemen have forced millions of families to leave their homes, and pushed...
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Tackling poverty by changing minds, systems and lives
How you are joining forces with people who share the belief that no-one should live in poverty, to empower communities...
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As violence worsens in Aleppo, Oxfam is working to keep Syrians healthy and safe
The situation in Syria continues to deteriorate after a failed ceasefire, and Oxfam is working to restore safe water and...
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What can you walk past?
Affecting one in three women globally, violence against women and girls is an epidemic in need of urgent and sustained...
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They survived the violence, but they can’t survive without clean water
“There is only one activity in the community — surviving.” Louise and her family escaped armed rebels, but now they...
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Carrying the weight of war: portraits along the road to Rubaya
To survive, men, women and children transport goods along the dirt road carrying everything from coal to vegetables. Some people...
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