Category: In the field
Follow stories from communities we’re working with around the world.
“You can’t wash your face using only one finger”
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Last week the UN revealed for the first time that more than a quarter of a million people died in Somalia over 18 months from October 2010-April 2012. These figures are shockingly high especially when you think about the fact that most of the deaths were probably preventable if the world had just reacted sooner to […] Read more »
Papua New Guinea floods reach crisis point
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Houses are sinking into the mud, crops are underwater and serious diseases are taking hold as floods continue to devastate East Sepik province, Papua New Guinea. Read more »
The female food heroes of Indonesia – part 8
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HELP SAVE LIVES Right now Oxfam is responding to emergencies around the world, including the recent earthquake and tsunami in Indonesia. Donate now What are you actually going to do? By Juan Martorana – blogging from Indonesia The road to Hoelea from Lewoleba is the worst I’ve ever been on. It takes around 10 […] Read more »
The female food heroes of Indonesia – part 7
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HELP SAVE LIVES Right now Oxfam is responding to emergencies around the world, including the recent earthquake and tsunami in Indonesia. Donate now Locals could almost run faster to market By Juan Martorana – blogging from Indonesia Lewoleba — one of the main villages on Lembata Island — is a long way east of […] Read more »
Burma: Why Australia must act now
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By Claire Spoors, Publish What You Pay Australia Coordinator I recently travelled to Parliament House in Canberra with Burmese activists who were speaking at a seminar organised by the Burma Campaign Australia. The question addressed during the seminar was, ‘Will foreign investment alleviate poverty in Burma?’ This question is particularly timely as in the last […] Read more »
The female food heroes of Indonesia – part 6
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HELP SAVE LIVES Right now Oxfam is responding to emergencies around the world, including the recent earthquake and tsunami in Indonesia. Donate now How the “less prosperous” farmers live By Juan Martorana – blogging from Indonesia In a country of 240 million people, in which 110 million are of working age, and 40 million […] Read more »
The female food heroes of Indonesia – part 5
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HELP SAVE LIVES Right now Oxfam is responding to emergencies around the world, including the recent earthquake and tsunami in Indonesia. Donate now Gotong Royong: the secret to a fast harvest By Juan Martorana – blogging from Indonesia So how does one female farmer harvest around 1,250sqm of rice in just two hours? “Gotong […] Read more »
Success in Cambodia
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Khvan Ry and his wife Van Sineth from Kratie province in Cambodia have asked that we pass on their thanks for what supporters like you have helped to achieve through programs to bring clean water and sanitation to people like them. Read more »
Marching through the streets of Tunis at the World Social Forum 2013
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By Oxfam Australia’s Lauren Robertson – blogging from Tunisia We walked down to Mohammad Bouazizi Square in central Tunis on the afternoon of March 26; a place which held significance for the start of the opening march of the 2013 World Social Forum (WSF). The square was renamed after the fruit seller whose suicide sparked […] Read more »
Youth, the economy of sex & dismantling patriarchy in Tunis
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By Oxfam Australia’s Lauren Robertson – blogging from Tunisia Last week, 22 young activists from Asia, Africa, Latin America, the Pacific and the Middle East came together in Tunisia to participate in Oxfam International Youth Partnership program’s Gender Justice Project. Selected out of a network of 300, the Action Partners taking part in this project […] Read more »
