Category: Emergencies
When crisis strikes we respond quickly with life-saving support and help people to rebuild their livelihoods.
World Humanitarian Day 2012
Sunday 19 August is World Humanitarian Day (WHD), and this year’s theme is “Do something good, somewhere, for someone else.” Read more »
On the ground in West Africa
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Oxfam’s Andrew Hewett and former Democrats leader Natasha Stott Despoja are currently visiting Burkina Faso, one of the West African countries experiencing terrible food shortages. On their first day, they visited Mentao refugee camp. Read more »
“We are all African”
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Some of African most talented musicians, actors and writers have joined forces in support of West Africa, writing a public letter urging world leaders to support the region with emergency aid and long-term investment. Read more »
Flooding in the Philippines
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What we know so far about this week’s floods in the Philippines. Read more »
A long way from Hogwarts: Bonnie Wright in West Africa
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Better known as Ginny Weasley from the Harry Potter films, actress Bonnie Wright is also an Oxfam Ambassador. And it was in this role that she visited Senegal recently, to find out more about how the food crisis is affecting vulnerable communities. Read more »
Support the Sahel region of West Africa
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In the Sahel region of West Africa, an estimated 18.7 million people are currently experiencing severe food shortages, with more than 1 million children at risk of acute malnutrition. This emergency has been building since early 2012. Low rainfall and water shortages, poor harvests and sky-rocketing food prices (expected to keep rising until the end […] Read more »
Craftwork: a tale of tassels, quilts, jewels and peace in Pakistan
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Two years after devastating floods caused widespread damage across Pakistan, we bring you this good-news story a tiny village finding its way back from disaster. Read more »
Damon Albarn unplugged in Mali for Oxfam
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Blur and Gorillaz frontman Damon Albarn has joined forces with Malian musician Afel Bofoum and Oxfam to raise awareness of the West Africa food crisis via the universal medium of music. Read more »
Video dispatch from Niger
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Oxfam’s Chee Chee Leung files her second video update from West Africa – this time from Niamey, Niger. Read more »
What a difference a jerry can makes
A year since famine was declared in parts of Somalia, we bring you this good-news story about how the humble jerry can is making a huge difference in Mogadishu IDP camps. Read more »
