Category: Aid & development
Aid is one of Australia’s most important contributions to ending extreme poverty and inequality around the world.
Yemen: Cash transfers in Aslam district supporting drought-hit families
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Find out how Oxfam is helping families affected by the drought in Yemen through cash transfer payments. Read more »
Bangladesh: A new start for Nooreja
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Meet Nooreja Begum, a self-employed businesswoman who is single-handedly supporting her two sons and her mother with the money she earns selling sweets from her ‘mobile sweet shop’. Thanks to supporters like you, Nooreja, from the district of Jamalpur in Bangladesh, has been able to build a thriving business. She took part in a skills […] Read more »
The hunger virus multiplies: Deadly recipe of conflict, Covid-19 and climate accelerate world hunger
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A year and a half since the pandemic began, deaths from hunger are outpacing
the virus. Ongoing conflict, combined with the economic disruptions of the
pandemic and an escalating climate crisis, has deepened poverty and
catastrophic food insecurity in the world’s hunger hotspots and established
strongholds in new epicentres of hunger. Read more »
Accountable Governance for Resilient Development
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Oxfam Australia’s vision is a just and sustainable world without poverty. This requires transforming the systems and power structures that create inequality and injustice. Read more »
Australia must contribute its fair share to the UN COVID-19 Global Humanitarian Response Plan
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In fragile states, war zones and in poor countries, the human and economic costs of COVID-19 threaten to kill millions and push billions more into poverty. Read more »
Australia is learning firsthand what our neighbours have suffered for years
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The bushfires have shown us what climate change looks like. A reality millions are facing today all over the world. We reflect on the crisis and what we can do today. Read more »
Turning your emergency donation into instant aid with Blockchain
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New Blockchain technology has the potential to deliver emergency cash transfers in a faster, cheaper and more transparent fashion than ever before. Read more »
How onions are helping families to smile in Papua New Guinea
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Thanks to you, we’re empowering families in PNG to earn an income through onion farming – which means that their kids can go to school, eat nutritious food, and build proper housing! Read more »
A gift from the heart when tragedy strikes
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When earthquakes devastated Nepal in 2015, thousands of lives were lost. Without the generosity of Oxfam supporters, families like Til’s might still be homeless and drinking contaminated ground water. Read more »
Foreign aid: Australia must match the generosity of those we’re helping
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Australia needs a generous and stable aid program that leaves no one behind, bolsters the capacity and responsibility of countries to provide for all their people, and helps to build resilience in an increasingly risky world. Read more »