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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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Habibo’s story
As famine creeps across southern Somalia, the Bay region is the latest area to be affected. Habibo, a widowed mother...
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Cleaning to a new beat
A whole lot of shaking going on: in her latest dispatch from East Africa, Oxfam Australia's Chee Chee Leung describes...
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Praying for paradise
Heralding the end of Ramadan, the Eid Al Fitr holiday is usually a time of celebration for Muslims. For those...
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Our woman in East Africa
Chee Chee Leung, Oxfam’s media coordinator for international projects and emergencies, is currently in East Africa, visiting the Dadaab refugee...
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With drought and famine weakening Somalia, community care improves childrens’ health
Launched with a local Somali partner in 2009, Oxfam's innovative community care program to address malnutrition in Mogadishu has reached...
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A photo story from Turkana
Five years without decent rain has left the northern Kenyan region of Turkana parched and in desperate need of aid....
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Smiling in Dadaab
Amid the challenges and frustrations of life at Dadaab refugee camp, there are also some good reasons to smile, as...
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World Humanitarian Day 2011
Most of us will be fortunate enough to never know disaster. Our lives will not be torn apart by flooding,...
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Destination: Mogadishu
The first of three Oxfam aid shipments to Mogadishu was dispatched on Saturday, containing 47 tons of water and hygiene...
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Rankin in Kenya
In this video, recorded when he was in drought-stricken Turkana to take photos for Oxfam, photographer Rankin tells how moved...
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Cash-for-work in Kenya: Building latrines at Dadaab camp
Our cash-for-work program in Dadaab is not only helping refugees earn vital income, but is also giving them a sense...
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A mother’s impotence in East Africa
In this moving piece by Irina Fuhrmann, women from the drought-stricken Kenyan village of Kanukurdio tell of their struggles to...
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