Category: Emergencies
When crisis strikes we respond quickly with life-saving support and help people to rebuild their livelihoods.
“We walked with our children on our backs”
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An estimated 1.8 million women, men, and children in Somalia have been driven from their homes by the combination of famine and conflict. Since early August, Oxfam has provided clean water and sanitation for an estimated 11,000 Somali refugees in Hilaweyn camp, in Dollo Ado, Ethiopia. Three refugees in the camp share their stories: Read more »
Between a rock and a hard place
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Around 1,000 Somali refugees arrive each day at the Hiloweyn camp, in Dollo Ado, Ethiopia, just a few kilometres from the Somali border. It’s a race against time to install water tanks and tap stands so people can access water as the camp swells in size. Read more »
Smiles in Dadaab
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Chee Chee Leung visited Dadaab, expecting the world’s largest refugee camp to be a site brimming over with sadness, sickness and despair. Instead she was surprised to find plenty of smiles. Read more »
Pakistan floods: four days old and the roof caves in
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Oxfam Media Officer Tariq Malik traveled to Pakistan, where heavy rains continue to flood the south, and met a woman who had to evacuate her home only four days after giving birth. This is her story. Read more »
Waiting for water
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Carly Sheehan travels to the village of Dillo in Ethiopia, where Oxfam is currently reaching over 8,500 people with clean water. Read more »
In northern Ethiopia, weather insurance protects against drought
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In Adi Ha, northern Ethiopia, a growing number of farmers now have a means of managing some of the region’s unpredictability: weather insurance for their crops. Read more »
Dadaab: a crack in the sky
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Nicole Johnston from Oxfam Great Britain is unexpectantly buoyed by the incredible energy that is generated by the half a million people living in Dadaab, the world’s biggest refugee camp. Read more »
All hands to the pump
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It’s a race against time to get water equipment constructed before refugees arrive in a new camp near Dolo Ad, a village in the far south of Ethiopia, not far from the Somali border. Read more »
Habibo’s story
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As famine creeps across southern Somalia, the Bay region is the latest area to be affected. Habibo, a widowed mother of three, fled the area after losing all her livestock to drought. She now lives in Mogadishu’s crowded Badbado camp. Read more »
Cleaning to a new beat
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A whole lot of shaking going on: in her latest dispatch from East Africa, Oxfam Australia’s Chee Chee Leung describes the unique method refugees in Dadaab use to keep their jerry cans clean… Read more »
