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When you support Oxfam, you help create a world without the inequality that fuels poverty. Here’s what that looks like for the communities we work with.
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What’s happening in Gaza, the West Bank and Lebanon?
On 15 January 2025, a temporary ceasefire was announced, coming into effect on 19 January. Here's the latest update on the situation in Gaza and the wider region.
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Cleaning to a new beat
A whole lot of shaking going on: in her latest dispatch from East Africa, Oxfam Australia's Chee Chee Leung describes...
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The highs and lows of aid work
I was recently on a trip with Barbara Stocking, the CEO of Oxfam Great Britain, who visited to see what...
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Closing the Gap with SWAMS, part 3: Hayley
Meet Hayley, the third Aboriginal health worker in our SWAMS interview series. Here, she describes how she puts clients at...
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Praying for paradise
Heralding the end of Ramadan, the Eid Al Fitr holiday is usually a time of celebration for Muslims. For those...
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Climate change is on the cards in WA
Oxfam supporters gathered recently around Fremantle MHR Melissa Parke to show their support for a price on carbon, handing over...
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Our woman in East Africa
Chee Chee Leung, Oxfam’s media coordinator for international projects and emergencies, is currently in East Africa, visiting the Dadaab refugee...
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What do our students know about the famine in the Horn of Africa?
Ideas to motivate your students to better understand the famine in the Horn of Africa and how they can contribute...
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With drought and famine weakening Somalia, community care improves childrens’ health
Launched with a local Somali partner in 2009, Oxfam's innovative community care program to address malnutrition in Mogadishu has reached...
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A photo story from Turkana
Five years without decent rain has left the northern Kenyan region of Turkana parched and in desperate need of aid....
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Closing the Gap with SWAMS, part 1: Katherine
Katherine is an Aboriginal health worker with SWAMS (South West Aboriginal Medical Service), based in Bunbury, Western Australia. In the...
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Smiling in Dadaab
Amid the challenges and frustrations of life at Dadaab refugee camp, there are also some good reasons to smile, as...
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World Humanitarian Day 2011
Most of us will be fortunate enough to never know disaster. Our lives will not be torn apart by flooding,...
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