Oxfam Australia

A wrap up of 2011 campaigns, acheivements and ongoing actions.

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In Haiti, unemployment sits at an estimated 75% of the population. Finding work is especially difficult in rural areas, but a group of women in the picturesque town of Thomazeau is bucking the trend with Oxfam’s support.

Thanks to a great new literacy program, women in PNG’s remote East Sepik region are not only learning to read, but gaining a whole new perspective on life – and their place in it.

A group of women in India are working their way out of poverty, using other people’s rubbish to build a better life. This eye-opening short film shows just how they’re going about it.

New agricultural know-how and a sense of community have turned Ethiopian widow Balcha’s life around. Despair has been replaced by hope and an unfamiliar sense of possibility…

After a decade of slow but steady improvements in the area of women’s rights, a new Oxfam report about Afghanistan warns that NATO’s impending withdrawal from the country may jeopardise this progress.

Halima is a nurse at the emergency therapeutic centre in Badbaado, Mogadishu’s largest refugee camp. Here, she talks about her job’s ups and downs and shares her hopes for a peaceful Somalia.