Tag: Emergency 365
![Photo: NOAA's National Weather Service Photo: NOAA's National Weather Service](https://www.oxfam.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Hagupit_NOAAs-National-Weather-Service_648x431.jpg)
Oxfam ready to respond as Super Typhoon Hagupit bears down on the Philippines
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Oxfam is prepared for a major disaster response in the Philippines after Cyclone Hagupit was upgraded to a Super Typhoon. The Category 5 storm, which has recorded maximum wind speeds of more than 300km/h, could pose a risk millions of people. Oxfam has staff on standby to respond to the emergency and stocks throughout the Philippines ready for rapid distribution. Read more »
![Photo: Maya Hautefeuille Photo: Maya Hautefeuille](https://www.oxfam.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Syria1_Maya-Hautefeuille_648x431.jpg)
Berlin Conference on Syria refugee response must deliver as harsh winter approaches
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With over three million refugees now having crossed into countries around Syria, governments from around the world are gathering today in Berlin for a conference on the response to the refugee crisis. Everyone who needs to escape must be able to flee to safety from the conflict. Read more »
Stand #WithSyria; demand an end to indiscriminate attacks
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This powerful new film from the #WithSyria campaign is nothing short of the real catastrophe that has been taking place for more than three years. Use your power to hold the UN Security Council to their word and help end the bombing of Syrian civilians. Read more »
![Oxfam India staff reach out to a Gujjars community who suffered extensive losses of shelter, food and livestock in one of the worst affected areas in the Akhnoor Block of Jammu district. Photo: Abhilash Lahkar/Oxfam Photo: Abhilash Lahkar/Oxfam](https://www.oxfam.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/IndiaFloods2_Abhilash-Lahkar_Oxfam_648x431.jpg)
Flooding in India: Worst disaster to hit Jammu and Kashmir region in a century
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Oxfam is responding to flooding in India that has affected people in 2,500 villages in the Jammu Kashmir region, in the worst natural disaster to hit the region in 60 years. Read more »
![Syrian children take part in a drawing activity during an afternoon of games organised by Oxfam Italy WASH teams in an informal settlement near Ghaza, in Lebanon's Bekaa valley. Photo: Maya Hautefeuille/Oxfam Photo: Maya Hautefeuille/Oxfam](https://www.oxfam.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/FairerDealSyrians_Maya-Hautefeuille_648x431.jpg)
Millions of Syrian refugees abandoned
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Despite being the largest humanitarian crisis in the world, the international response to the Syria Crisis is failing. Three and a half years on, the generosity of neighbouring countries such as Lebanon and Jordan is at breaking point, and refugees and poor communities are paying the price. Read more »
![Elizabeth and baby Swampy. Photo: Kieran Doherty/Oxfam Elizabeth and baby Swampy. Photo: Kieran Doherty/Oxfam](https://www.oxfam.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/SouthSudan_Elizabeth_KieranDohertyOxfam648x431.jpg)
Famine looming over the people of South Sudan
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Elizabeth and her five children live in a shared tent with 20 other people. Her husband was shot and killed, and her families’ home has since been burned down. Now, Elizabeth is worried about what will become of her and her children. Read more »
![Photo: Iyad al Baba/Oxfam Photo: Iyad al Baba/Oxfam](https://www.oxfam.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Gaza_Destruction_648x431.jpg)
The Gaza blockade – a personal story
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Richard Stanforth is Oxfam GB’s Regional Policy Adviser in the Middle East. Here, he shares his personal experience of what life has been like in Gaza under the blockade. I first visited Gaza in spring 2006 when I had just become a policy officer for Oxfam covering Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory. I arrived […] Read more »
![Photo: Iyad al Baba/Oxfam Photo: Iyad al Baba/Oxfam](https://www.oxfam.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/GazaDestruction2_648x431.jpg)
Oxfam staff in Gaza flee their homes
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The crisis in Gaza has affected everyone living there — including our own Oxfam colleagues, working in incredibly difficult and dangerous circumstances to deliver safe water and food to thousands of families in need. Many of our staff and partners have themselves been forced to flee their homes with their families. They fear for their family’s safety and their children’s future. Read more »
![During a brief 12 cessation of hostilities, families returned to Shujaiya in eastern Gaza, scene of
some of the heaviest Israeli bombing. Thousands of families fled the area and were only now
able to return to see the massive damage to homes and infrastructure, and search for the
bodies of missing family members. About 150 bodies were uncovered from beneath the rubble,
bringing the death toll over 1,000. Photo: Iyad al Baba/Oxfam. Photo: Iyad al Baba/Oxfam.](https://www.oxfam.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Gaza_Ceasefire-blog_648x431.jpg)
The destruction of Gaza, a first-hand account
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Arwa Mhanna travelled around Gaza City in during a brief window of calm. She shares her experiences: “The ceasefire lasted only 12 hours, and as I write the violence has returned. On Monday, Al Shifa hospital — where I met so many brave people — was hit, with many casualties being reported. I don’t know if the people I met are alive or dead.” Read more »
![Amal's new dress hangs in her one room home where she's been living as a refugee. In Northern Lebanon, families of up to ten people live in one room. Photo: Maya Hautefeuille Photo: Maya Hautefeuille](https://www.oxfam.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Eid-photo_dress_800x533.jpg)
A letter from Lebanon for Eid
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This week marks Eid, the important religious holiday celebrated by Muslims worldwide that brings to an end the Islamic holy month of fasting, Ramadan. This is a bitter sweet celebration for millions of people as conflict continues across the Middle East. Read more »