Category: Emergencies
When crisis strikes we respond quickly with life-saving support and help people to rebuild their livelihoods.
Pakistan floods: four days old and the roof caves in
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Oxfam Media Officer Tariq Malik traveled to Pakistan, where heavy rains continue to flood the south, and met a woman who had to evacuate her home only four days after giving birth. This is her story. Read more »
Waiting for water
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Carly Sheehan travels to the village of Dillo in Ethiopia, where Oxfam is currently reaching over 8,500 people with clean water. Read more »
In northern Ethiopia, weather insurance protects against drought
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In Adi Ha, northern Ethiopia, a growing number of farmers now have a means of managing some of the region’s unpredictability: weather insurance for their crops. Read more »
Dadaab: a crack in the sky
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Nicole Johnston from Oxfam Great Britain is unexpectantly buoyed by the incredible energy that is generated by the half a million people living in Dadaab, the world’s biggest refugee camp. Read more »
All hands to the pump
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It’s a race against time to get water equipment constructed before refugees arrive in a new camp near Dolo Ad, a village in the far south of Ethiopia, not far from the Somali border. Read more »
Habibo’s story
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As famine creeps across southern Somalia, the Bay region is the latest area to be affected. Habibo, a widowed mother of three, fled the area after losing all her livestock to drought. She now lives in Mogadishu’s crowded Badbado camp. Read more »
Cleaning to a new beat
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A whole lot of shaking going on: in her latest dispatch from East Africa, Oxfam Australia’s Chee Chee Leung describes the unique method refugees in Dadaab use to keep their jerry cans clean… Read more »
Praying for paradise
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Heralding the end of Ramadan, the Eid Al Fitr holiday is usually a time of celebration for Muslims. For those in the Dadaab refugee complex, however, it’s just another day spent praying for survival. Oxfam Australia’s Chee Chee Leung reports. Read more »
Our woman in East Africa
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Chee Chee Leung, Oxfam’s media coordinator for international projects and emergencies, is currently in East Africa, visiting the Dadaab refugee camps. She took these photos yesterday. Read more »
With drought and famine weakening Somalia, community care improves childrens’ health
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Launched with a local Somali partner in 2009, Oxfam’s innovative community care program to address malnutrition in Mogadishu has reached 136,000 children. This is the story of one of these children, Mohamed, who recovered from severe illness and malnutrition. Read more »