A journey through the life of a 24-year-old footwear factory worker.
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Meet Peter Abwell, former pastoralist and fisherman, who now runs a bustling shop in Turkana and is something of a local celebrity. “Now I want to support others and help them learn,” he says. As Alejandro Chaskielberg discovers, Peter’s doing just that.
In one of Port-au-Prince’s most earthquake-damaged districts, Oxfam is helping find land for residents to grow their own vegetables. As this slide show indicates, the project is already paying off in many ways.
“This is life-changing for people”: watch this video to see how herders facing drought on the Dawa River in southern Ethiopia have shifted their priorities and their lifestyle to become farmers.
It’s easy to get caught up in the material anxieties of the holiday season. For a bit of perspective we bring you the story of Maree, a 23-year-old Cambodian woman living with her mother in the Takeo district of Cambodia.
A wrap up of 2011 campaigns, acheivements and ongoing actions.
After being in Cambodia for over 20 months, speaking with communities throughout the country and a whole lot of thinking, here are some reflections on Cambodia.
Oxfam helped Bhoomy Deungmarny and the members of her village in Laos to build a gravity-fed water pump, and taught them how to maintain the pump system. The pump saves Bhoomy four hours a day that she used to spend hauling water from the nearby river; now she has the time (and the water) to grow enough food to feed her family all year.
A photographic essay produced by Labour behind the Label documents the every day struggles of workers making adidas products at the Shen Zhou factory in Phnom Penh.