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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.

Palestinian Territory, Occupied: Children and their families are returning to their homes or the remains of their homes to check the status of their homes. Photo: Alef Multimedia Company/Oxfam

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July 31, 2017

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...

June 21, 2017

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...

Florence and her husband, Masikati live in a simple house in Masvingo Province, Zimbabwe.
Photo: Abbie Trayler Smith/OxfamAUS

June 5, 2017

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...

An innovative canoeing program is saving lives in South Sudan. Photo: Dylan Quinnell/OxfamAUS

May 20, 2017

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...

May 10, 2017

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...

May 9, 2017

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...

Children play in a camp for Internally Displaced Persons, in Amran governorate, Yemen. Among the 2 million IDPs in Yemen, 55% are children. Many are suffering from severe malnutrition. Photo: Oxfam.

April 24, 2017

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...

March 31, 2017

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...

Wardeh was displaced from her hometown due to the conflict in Syria. Credit: Islam Mardini / Oxfam

October 3, 2016

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...

Papua New Guinea: Six-year-old Jane* survived a brutal assault by four men which left her hospitalised and permanently scarred. Photo: Vlad Sokhin.

May 31, 2016

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...

May 19, 2016

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...

June 1, 2016

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...