Category: In the field
Follow stories from communities we’re working with around the world.
Journey to a land beyond Google Maps
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Ever wonder what it’d be like to work for Oxfam in the field? Here, our Disaster Risk Reduction program manager in Laos, Manish Mehta, gives an all-access glimpse into a typically atypical day on the job! Read more »
Keeping them safe: Nokuthula’s story
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In our latest blog post about keeping South Africa’s most vulnerable children safe, the irrepressible Nokuthula talks about running her creche with “power, passion and love”. Read more »
The ChangeCourse journey: part 3
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Bonnie Hook brings us her third – and final – ChangeCourse blog post and emotions are running high! Read more »
Keeping them safe: Teresa’s story
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This week, we meet Teresa, one of the refugee women that RSS has helped to set up a home-based childcare centre. Here, Teresa talks about the challenges and satisfaction of keeping vulnerable children safe. Read more »
The ChangeCourse journey: part 2
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ChangeCourse 2012 has now well and truly kicked in, requiring participants to take a leap of faith in more ways than one… Read more »
Music: the universal language (and your chance to win!)
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If you live in Victoria and love roots music from around the world, you’re in luck: we have four double passes to the Australasian Worldwide Music Expo (AWME) to give our supporters! Read more »
The ChangeCourse journey: part 1
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This is the first in a series of blog posts from the scene of ChangeCourse 2012, where young Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people from around Australia have come together to work with Oxfam on bringing about positive change in their communities and themselves. Read more »
Keeping them safe: building a community
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In part 2 of her interview, Yasmin tells us more about RSS’s work with refugee women, supporting them as they rebuild their confidence and find a place in their new communities. Read more »
Keeping them safe: how home crèches help
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So where did this genius idea to train refugee women in South Africa to run their own home-based creches come about? Oxfam partner Refugee Social Services. In this blog post, their director tells the story. Read more »
Living with disasters – preparedness and response in Laos
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By Louise Mooney, East Asia Humanitarian Program Coordinator, May 2012 In June last year the remote, mountainous district of Met in Laos’ north experienced the worst typhoon-triggered flooding in local grandmother Seng’s life. Seng’s family’s rice fields, essential to their livelihoods, were inundated with rocks, water and mud when the local stream flooded. “We lost […] Read more »
