Category: Aid & development
Aid is one of Australia’s most important contributions to ending extreme poverty and inequality around the world.
![An innovative canoeing program is saving lives in South Sudan. Photo: Dylan Quinnell/OxfamAUS Helen Canoe South Sudan](https://oxfamautest.wpenginepowered.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Helen-Canoe-South-Sudan-1170x500.jpg)
Helen Szoke in South Sudan: Hope in a time of hunger
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This month Oxfam Chief Executive Helen Szoke visited Oxfam programs in South Sudan delivering clean water, sanitation and vital humanitarian assistance to families facing hunger and famine. Read more »
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Budget 2017 fails the fairness test
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Last night’s Federal Budget was chance to act on rising inequality. It was a chance to champion fairness and to recommit to Australia being a good global citizen. Oxfam’s verdict: the Budget was a massive fail. Read more »
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A mother’s marathon for water in Zimbabwe
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In Zimbabwe, mothers like Ida literally walk a marathon every day, to provide water for their children. The countless hours spent traipsing to collect water takes time that should be spent working or learning — this entrenches the cycle of poverty. Read more »
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Tackling poverty by changing minds, systems and lives
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How you are joining forces with people who share the belief that no-one should live in poverty, to empower communities to build better lives for themselves. Read more »
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How canoes are saving lives in South Sudan
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A unique Oxfam run canoeing program in South Sudan is assisting communities to seek refuge rapidly in an emergency, and helps the canoe operators to earn the money they need to support their families. Read more »
![For Subi*, becoming a member of the Oxfam-supported beekeping group has changed his life.
Photo: Phil Moore/Oxfam 97698scr Tanzania bee Phil](https://oxfamautest.wpenginepowered.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/97698scr_Tanzania_bee_Phil-MooreOxfam_1170x500.jpg)
A hive of activity in Tanzania’s refugee camps
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Oxafm is supporting a unique project in Tanzania, so that refugees can learn new skills to work their own way out of poverty… and it’s got people buzzing with excitement. Read more »
![Aline*, a refugee, sits with her youngest daughter, Gloriose* (2 years 7 months), outside her tent in the Nyarugusu refugee camp.
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Bakery group turns mums into breadwinners in Tanzania
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Subsistence handouts can only go so far in a place like Nyarugusu camp. So Oxfam is instead focused on practical ways — like baking — to give this growing refugee community a hand up, and help them become more self-sufficient. Read more »
![Buchumi, Tailor, Tanzania. Photo: Amy Christian/Oxfam oxfam tailor tanzania](https://oxfamautest.wpenginepowered.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/oxfam.jpg)
A Tailor in Tanzania
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Once, Buchumi was a primary school teacher. But when war broke out, he was forced to flee to a refugee camp in Tanzania. Here is life would change forever. Read more »
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Through a Mother’s Eyes: Life in Nduta Refugee Camp
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The Nduta refugee camp in Tanzania is home to more than 55,000 personal stories of survival and hope. Godebrite’s remarkable story is one of them. Read more »
![Photo: Rodney Dekker/OxfamAUS A student holds two glasses of water to show the difference in water quality in her school in PNG](https://oxfamautest.wpenginepowered.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/74042_Hidden-Billions_Rebecca_Rodney-Dekker_v1.jpg)
172 billion reasons to close tax loopholes and end tax havens
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Oxfam estimates that tax dodging by Australian multinational corporations will deprive PNG of around $4 million in health and sanitation-related public services over the next five years. This is money that could provide access to life-changing clean water and sanitation. Read more »