Category: In the field
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The female food heroes of Indonesia – part 4
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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 The disaster, the muazin and the fried grasshopper By Juan Martorana – blogging from Indonesia This post should be titled “disasters”, plural, not disaster, singular. The last couple of days have […] Read more »
The female food heroes of Indonesia – part 2
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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 Oxfam Australia’s Juan Martorana – blogging from Indonesia Sixty-five per cent of Indonesia’s food is imported, including its main staple, rice. Over a series of events around Jakarta, the seven female […] Read more »
The female food heroes of Indonesia – part 1
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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 Oxfam Australia’s Juan Martorana – blogging from Indonesia How does a country with almost half the population living on less than $2 per day feed itself? I don’t know yet, but […] Read more »
The female food heroes of Indonesia – part 3
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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 Oxfam Australia’s Juan Martorana – blogging from Indonesia Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 4 So what have I learnt so far in Jakarta? Surprise, surprise: there is no one solution […] Read more »
Helping Syrian refugees in a male-dominated environment
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Amid a sea of male construction and site workers in Jordan’s sprawling Zaatari desert camp, Oxfam’s female engineer, Farah Al-Basha stands out from the crowd. The energetic 27 year-old Jordanian joined the Oxfam team earlier this year, quitting her job at a private engineering company to work for the aid agency. Instead of working on […] Read more »
Darfur: Where are we now?
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It has been ten years since the Darfur conflict erupted and millions fled their homes in the countryside for the safety of towns and camps. If you do not live in Sudan, it is understandable if you think the problem resolved itself long ago. But if you could come with me to Darfur, the land where […] Read more »
Land is life in Papua New Guinea
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I have just returned from Papua New Guinea where the struggle for control of the country’s natural resources is raging. Communities are quite literally fighting for their lands, environment, livelihoods and culture – all of these are at risk from logging, palm oil and other so-called developments. Land is life, as they say in PNG. […] Read more »
Haiti: three earthquake commemorations, three steps in reconstruction
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Three years on from the disaster earthquake that rocked Haiti, Oxfam’s Agathe Nougaret reflects on how the anniversary is commemorated each year. I can’t believe it’s been 3 years already since the earthquake hit in January 2010. I wasn’t in Haiti for “le 12” (“the 12th” a local term to refer to the earthquake), I […] Read more »
Beating the drum for girls’ equality
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In Rajasthan – the largest single region in India – traditions run deep and that can have a devastating effect on the local women and girls. But the drumbeat of change is growing louder thanks to a pioneering project being run with our partner agency Vikalp Sansthan. Read more »
Journey to a land beyond Google Maps
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Ever wonder what it’d be like to work for Oxfam in the field? Here, our Disaster Risk Reduction program manager in Laos, Manish Mehta, gives an all-access glimpse into a typically atypical day on the job! Read more »
