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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.

Lebanon: Oxfam working collaboratively to address the needs of displaced people in North Lebanon. Photo: Rima Nabouls/Oxfam

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Cambodia: Siphon is a community activist who was trained and coached by 3SPN to advocate for community issues with the local authorities. She is a leader in her community and a part of the local fisheries network. Photo: Patrick Moran/Oxfam

April 30, 2024

Siphon’s story

Siphon’s community relies on Boeng Santhow Lake for fishing, watering their crops and general use. But a private banana company...

Gaza, Palestinian Territory, Occupied: Fidaa Shurrab, Director of Projects at Atfaluna for Deaf Society in Rafah stands in front of a destroyed building in Gaza strip while going to work. Photo: Alef Multimedia/Oxfam

March 7, 2024

What the women of Gaza want you to know this International Women’s Day

This Friday 8 March is International Women’s Day. It’s a day to honour women and their achievements while noting that...

Obby stands smiling at the camera in front of some trees in Yawuru (Broome), Australia. Obby participated in the KAWC Roundtable in Broome, 2023. She is a proud Bunuba woman from Fitzroy Crossing.

February 14, 2024

Combining culture with technology: Obby’s story

Thanks to committed supporters like you, Oxfam proudly partners with the Kimberley Aboriginal Women’s Council (KAWC). At the Council’s November...

Vanuatu: Jacquline is a graduate of Youth Challenge Vanuatu's (YCV) Ready for Work program, and now works at the ombudsman office in Vanuatu. Oxfam acknowledges the support of the Australian Government through the Australian NGO Cooperation Program (ANCP). Photo: Arlene Bax/Oxfam

February 14, 2024

Together we are stronger

For over 30 years, Oxfam, the community organisations we partner with and people like you have worked in Vanuatu to...

Canberra, Australia: Leanne Sanders pictured at Parliament House during the 2022 Straight Talk National Summit. Photo: Jillian Mundy/Oxfam

October 24, 2023

Visualising a brighter way for young Aboriginal women

The oldest living culture in the world is embracing 21st century technology to keep young people connected to their communities...

Kimberley Hunter, a proud Nyikina woman who took part in Oxfam’s Straight Talk summit in Canberra. Photo: Jillian Mundy/OxfamAUS

October 25, 2022

Telling it like it is: Straight Talk heads to Canberra

More than 50 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women from across Australia gathered in Canberra in August for Oxfam’s annual...

March 8, 2022

What She Makes movement on IWD

Women everywhere should have access to period products, nutritious food and be free to exercise and move their body, allowing...

July 2, 2020

“The day we will dance”: Voices of women in the midst of conflicts in West and Central Africa

In West and Central Africa, women have lost their “dance partners”, who have been killed by armed groups, disappeared or...

January 14, 2020

How your donation is helping train future female leaders in Pakistan

Many 17-year-olds look forward to the moment when they can legally vote but not many plan to stand for election...

October 28, 2019

Best&Less start their journey to pay a living wage

Best&Less have made a strong commitment to pay living wages throughout their supply chains.

October 25, 2019

What She Makes turns 2!

Celebrating two years of tackling poverty in the fashion industry

Map of the Solomon Islands. SOURCE: Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection: Solomon Islands Maps.

March 18, 2019

Igniting change: Shifting harmful gender norms in the Pacific

Oxfam is working towards shifting harmful gender norms in the Pacific.