Articles

La Oroya, Peru: Poisoned town
Feature Story | Nov 30, 2011
American-owned Doe Run polluted this small mountain community for more than a decade. Now citizens are joining with Oxfam to hold the company accountable.

Haiti: Reducing the risk of flooding in Artibonite
Feature Story | Nov 21, 2011
A local mayor enlists support from Oxfam to address major flooding in his community in rural Haiti.

Ethiopian farmers get a payout, easing effects of drought
Feature Story | Nov 17, 2011
With cash from the weather insurance policies they bought through an innovative program, farmers from Tigray can now plan for the future.

Rain in drought-hit East Africa brings changing humanitarian needs
Feature Story | Nov 14, 2011
Despite the rain, and the relief it brings, emergency conditions will likely last well into 2012.

In the midst of famine, children survive with the help of Oxfam partner SAACID
Feature Story | Nov 07, 2011
Community therapeutic care centers across Somalia's capital are admitting more than 3,000 malnourished children every week.

Giving their lives to stop a gold mine in El Salvador
Feature Story | Nov 03, 2011
Award-winning environmental leader Francisco Pineda on the fight to protect his country's land and water--and the high price of victory.

Nine hectares of hope: an irrigation project promises better harvests for Ethiopian farmers
Feature Story | Nov 02, 2011
With the help of an Oxfam partner, local farmers have tapped well water to nourish their fields in the Central Rift Valley.

Oxfam takes the fight against cholera to rural Haiti
Feature Story | Oct 31, 2011
In remote communities where the risk of death by cholera is heightened by rugged terrain, Oxfam is making water safer.

Business partnership promotes resilience and environmental preparedness
Feature Story | Oct 28, 2011
PREP is a partnership formed to address the risks and opportunities climate change poses to businesses and communities.

Where there's water, there's hope: Tapping the potential of a river in West Arsi
Feature Story | Oct 24, 2011
For more than 400 farmers along the Gurracho River, water now flows in abundance to their fields through a new irrigation system.

With insurance, loans, and confidence, this Ethiopian farmer builds her resilience
Feature Story | Oct 24, 2011
Selas Samson Biru is using her entrepreneurial spirit--and the security she has from her insurance--to build a more secure future for her family.

At the heart of the El Salvador flood response: partnership
Feature Story | Oct 22, 2011
When a major storm strikes El Salvador, preparedness and local partnerships make all the difference.

Marlin Mine: Violence and pollution lead to call for suspension
Feature Story | Oct 18, 2011
Concerns about human rights violations and the environment in Guatemala lead indigenous communities to seek a suspension of mine operations in western highlands.

More than 1 million growers are now embracing innovative approaches to producing more rice
Feature Story | Oct 06, 2011
System of Rice Intensification helps small-scale farmers in Vietnam.

Knowledge is power
Feature Story | Sep 28, 2011
Across Ghana, new leaders are emerging to voice concerns about the environment and basic justice.

Leadership from the bottom up
Feature Story | Sep 28, 2011
Oxfam’s partner in Ghana, Wacam, is building a network of activists – many of them women – and helping them learn technical as well as leadership skills.

Looking them in the eye
Feature Story | Sep 28, 2011
In Ghana, a young woman learns to lead in a village flooded by water draining from an underground mine shaft.

Ti koze sou kolera: In rural Haiti, Oxfam takes to the airwaves
Feature Story | Sep 23, 2011
Oxfam reaches out to remote communities about cholera, strengthening preparedness and easing fears.

With irrigation, herders in southern Ethiopia turn to farming
Feature Story | Sep 22, 2011
A small-scale irrigation project along the banks of the Dawa River is helping some herders grow enough food to feed their families--even as drought ravages much of the southern Ethiopia region.