Our trusty friend the air conditioning unit can’t be the only solution to combating climate change. The stark truth is that climate change is happening now, and it’s making the world hot and hungry. Yes friends climate change has a direct effect on…Food glorious food. But we need decent weather to grow the stuff – […]
Maddy has been volunteering in the Supporter Services team since November 2013. She tells us why she's passionate about volunteering with Oxfam.
This year will be one of rapid change in Afghanistan, as international military forces complete their withdrawal and Afghans await the final outcome of Presidential elections. Despite some important gains in women and girls’ access to education and health, almost 13 years since the fall of the Taliban the situation facing women and girls throughout […]
In response to the allegations made in Oxfam Australia’s report, Banking on Shaky Ground, the ANZ bank has responded with a disappointing series of feeble denials. In the face of specific and well substantiated allegations of support for companies that are land grabbing, providing inadequate compensation and employing child labour, the ANZ has replied saying […]
Is your bank involved in land grabbing in some of the poorest communities overseas? Oxfam’s report, Banking on Shaky Ground, details four case studies involving each of the big four banks; these outline personal stories of those affected by land grabs. We have stories from across the world, including nineteen-year-old Christophilda who lives in Turubu Bay […]
The lives of seven million people are at risk as food crisis and conflict grips South Sudan. The international community needs to step up with a massive injection of emergency aid.
Kids can really surprise you. Like when they do something you thought was impossible. When visiting our projects in South Africa recently, we found that a little girl named Yolanda who saved her entire family from disease — using just four sticks and a plastic container.
Kuapa Kookoo is the only farmer owned cocoa cooperative in Ghana and the supplier of cocoa for the Oxfam So Fair So Good range available at Oxfam Shop. Thanks to Fair trade sales, they're creating life-changing social projects for the whole community.
I’m Tom Dixon, lifelong Oxfam supporter, fundraiser, donor and volunteer here to share with you the incredible difference that you can make by becoming part of Oxfam. I believe that a world without poverty is achievable and Oxfam allows me to actively participate in making that world a reality.
The new Oxfam report, 'On the home stretch,' demonstrates why Australia needs to implement Security Council resolutions for the remainder of its Security Council term.
