Tag: Emergency 365

With the crisis in Gaza mounting, hospitals are struggling to cope with the growing influx of casualties. Three quarters of the dead and wounded are civilians, including many women and children. Read more »

The crisis in Gaza is having a devastating impact on civilians who represent approximately 75 per cent of the casualties so far. Oxfam partner WCLAC (the Women’s Centre for Legal Affairs and Counselling) is collecting testimonies from women in Gaza to describe their lives and fear under the ongoing Israeli airstrikes. Read more »

Ayad came home from work that day to find his children crawling on the floor, unable to walk. When he found out what had happened, he knew in that moment they had to leave Syria. He couldn’t bear the idea of anything else happening to his children. Nawal and the children packed up their things and began the long journey to Lebanon. Read more »

From refugees in Sahrawi camp in Algeria, to Justin Bieber, people literally all over the world stood #WithSyria. Read more »

“I sometimes wonder how I would cope if I was in the same position as the refugees I meet through my work. Say there was a conflict in the U.K. and my family and I suddenly found ourselves in France as refugees? I like to think that there would be people there who would help me as we – and the generous people of Syria’s neighboring countries – are trying to help others now.” Read more »

A mass evacuation has been ordered following the eruption of Mount Kelud on the main island of Java, Indonesia. Oxfam is currently working closely with partners on the ground to assess the situation and is preparing for the distribution of thousands of face-masks. Read more »

It’s been three months since Super Typhoon Haiyan,and our focus is helping people get their livelihoods back. For the time being, there’s little government aid for people like Vilma and Crispin—but there is progress. Read more »

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 »

This heart-breaking dispatch from Oxfam’s Eddy Mbuyi in DRC provides a whole new perspective on the conflict currently ravaging Goma. Read more »

By Louise Mooney, East Asia Humanitarian Program Coordinator, May 2012 In June last year the remote, mountainous district of Met in Laos’ north experienced the worst typhoon-triggered flooding in local grandmother Seng’s life. Seng’s family’s rice fields, essential to their livelihoods, were inundated with rocks, water and mud when the local stream flooded. “We lost […] Read more »