development

India: coping with flood situations

The Indian organization Gorakhpur Environmental Action Group (GEAG) has documented practices around agricultural adaptation in flood prone areas.read more

Philippines: A battle of mines

Juanita Cut-ing remembers the day when two armed solders came to her home, accompanied by mining company representatives and tried to force her to sell her land.read more

Peru: Restarting a community school after the earthquake

As the rebuilding effort continues after the August 15 (2007) earthquake in Peru, parents and their children are now struggling to restart the school year in Pisco.read more

Mauritania: Building wells in Hodh El Gharby

In a drought prone area like Mauritania, the issue of water access, in quantity but also in quality, is a big challenge.read more

Haiti No Longer Grows Much of Its Own Rice and Families Now Go Hungry

Judith Alexandre, a single mother, lives with her two children in Haiti, the poorest country in the western hemisphere, and like a lot of other families there they have only one choiread more

Defending the People, and Lake Izabal

Lake Izabal is a silver disc ringed by dark mountains; it reflects the sky and clouds.read more

Communities Fight Against AIDS in South Africa

Maria Mogale is the first to stand up and speak to visitors who approach her and a small group of patients eating a lunch of sorghum and chicken feet in the shade of a tall tree.read more

Oxfam Works on Longer-term Solutions to Help Ethiopians Survive Drought

When asked about solutions to a drought that is gripping parts of Ethiopia and spreading hunger among millions of people, government officials tick off lists of broad ideas.read more

Rebuilding Shattered Lives in Myanmar: Oxfam partner delivers aid, empowers communities

Like so many others in Myanmar, when Fahmid Bhuiya woke up the morning after Cyclone Nargis, his whole world had changed.read more

In Congo, Women Face Sexual Violence and its Legacy of Shame and Hardship

Justine Masika had long been interested in the well-being of poor rural women in the eastern provinces of the Democratic Republic of Congo when, in 1996, they began to come to her wiread more

Fighting Cholera: Oxfam Helps Clinics in Congo by Supplying Clean Water

“Kabimba” says the sign painted on the wall of a rural health clinic in South Kivu.read more

His Childhood Lost to War, Teenager Starts New Life in Congo with Help From Oxfam Partner

He rests his hands among the wood shavings scattered across a board on his workbench, as though touching the curls and chips reminds him of who he is now—a furniture-maker in aread more

Income or Health: Can HIV patients have both?

There is a serious challenge in the South African government's HIV and AIDS response.read more

Gods, People, Land and Income: Van Kieu farmers in Vietnam

Although the national poverty rate fell from 58.1 per cent in 1993 to an estimated 16 per cent in 2006, poverty remains in Vietnam, especially among the ethnic minority population whread more

Five Years into the Darfur Conflict, Three Staffers Look Back

Melinda Young – Senior Program Coordinator for DarfurMelinda worked on Oxfam’s Darfur response from the beginning of 2004 until the middle of 2005, and returned again at the stread more