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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.
"We have to work together in term of conservation, because it will provide the long-term benefits for next generations."
Meet Siphon
"I knew that our next step forward was going to be to digitise our knowledge, just because of technology — that’s the way that it’s going.”
Meet Obby![Bangladesh: Munni is a tea garden worker and earns just 170 Taka [AU$2.30] per day. She has to take out loans in order to buy groceries and then struggles to pay these loans back. Munni attended training run by Oxfam partner organisation, Breaking the Silence, and says she has gained courage through this training. Photo: Fabeha Monir/Oxfam](https://www.oxfam.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Munni-crop.png "Bangladesh: Munni is a tea garden worker and earns just 170 Taka [AU$2.30] per day. She has to take out loans in order to buy groceries and then struggles to pay these loans back. Munni attended training run by Oxfam partner organisation, Breaking the Silence, and says she has gained courage through this training. Photo: Fabeha Monir/Oxfam")
“When meetings started here, I attended those and gradually gained courage.”
Meet Munni
“When I became involved with the VPride … it also helped to build up my confidence."
Meet Yannick
“I’m working with Oxfam on a project that supports women in rural areas to respond and adapt to natural disasters."
Meet Magda
“There were many classes such as on gender, fishery law, negotiation skills and training on fish ecology ... I think that is good for the community.”
Meet Chhorvy
"Being able to collaborate with the women all over the Kimberley and having women come from interstate as well, I think that’s just important — women coming together.”
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News
Read the latest news and stories from Oxfam’s charity work around the globe.
Oxfam condemns killing of water engineers in Gaza
Oxfam condemns in the strongest terms the killing of four water engineers and workers in Gaza today from the Khuzaa municipality who were working with our strategic partner the Coastal Municipalities Water Utility (CMWU). The four men were killed on their way to conduct repairs to water infrastructure in Khuzaa, east of Khan Younis. Despite […]
Up to 21,000 people are dying each day from conflict-fuelled hunger around the world
On World Food Day, hunger has reached an all-time high exposing the flaws in global peacebuilding and conflict recovery efforts Between 7,000 to as many as 21,000 people are likely dying each day from hunger in countries impacted by conflict, according to a new Oxfam report published on World Food Day. The report, Food Wars, […]
Lebanon struggles to cope as over a million people flee Israel’s military invasion – Oxfam
The Lebanese authorities, communities and humanitarian agencies are struggling to shelter and provide the necessities of life to over one million people fleeing Israel’s airstrikes and invasion to the south, Oxfam said today. Oxfam is working with local partners in Lebanon and alongside other aid agencies as part of the government’s humanitarian response plan following […]
