Stories of impact blog
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.
FEATURED STORY
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.
Read More
Popular categories
Keeping them safe: Teresa’s story
This week, we meet Teresa, one of the refugee women that RSS has helped to set up a home-based childcare...
READ MORE
The ChangeCourse journey: part 2
ChangeCourse 2012 has now well and truly kicked in, requiring participants to take a leap of faith in more ways...
READ MORE
Music: the universal language (and your chance to win!)
If you live in Victoria and love roots music from around the world, you’re in luck: we have four double...
READ MORE
Keeping them safe: how home crèches help
So where did this genius idea to train refugee women in South Africa to run their own home-based creches come...
READ MORE
Living with disasters – preparedness and response in Laos
By Louise Mooney, East Asia Humanitarian Program Coordinator, May 2012 In June last year the remote, mountainous district of Met...
READ MORE
War and peace: the story behind Rajana’s bombshell jewellery
When the manager of Oxfam Shop's Fremantle store went to Cambodia recently, she visited the producers of our popular 'Doves...
READ MORE
Maria Loretha and the sorghum solution: part 2
In the second part of her interview, Indonesian lawyer-turned-farmer Maria Loretha talks about sorghum's many benefits and its potential as...
READ MORE
Maria Loretha and the sorghum solution: part 1
"Because they called me crazy, I wanted to prove their words were wrong." In part one of a two-part interview,...
READ MORE
Time to stop hunger, start cooking — and win!
Win a prize from Oxfam’s fair trade gift range, simply by choosing one of the recipes from our online cookbook...
READ MORE
Stop hunger, start cooking
Fancy yourself a bit of a foodie? Know how to bring out the best in humble garden vegetables? Well, now's...
READ MORE
National Reconciliation Week 2012
The theme of this year's National Reconciliation Week is 'Let's Talk Recognition' - and with nearly 300 events registered, there'll...
READ MORE
Behind the (prison) walls
Oxfam's Caroline Gluck has documented plenty of examples of Oxfam's hygiene promotion activities - in communities, schools and markets -...
READ MORE
