Articles

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.

Land grabs push thousands further into poverty
Feature Story | Sep 22, 2011
Large-scale land grabs threaten poor communities' access to food. In such deals, small-scale farmers are forced to leave their land, their homes, and their livelihoods.

Pakistan: Four days old and the roof caves in
Feature Story | Sep 21, 2011
In flood-stricken Sindh province, a displaced mother tells her story.

New life in the midst of Kenya's drought
Feature Story | Sep 16, 2011
An emergency cash transfer program helps more than 5,500 hard-hit families take control of their futures.

A message from Peru's forgotten farmers
Feature Story | Sep 09, 2011
At 15,000 feet above sea level, rural food producers battle back against climate change and poverty.

A feeding program in Somalia has helped more than 136,000 children and mothers
Feature Story | Aug 30, 2011
Supported by Oxfam, the center aims to treat acutely malnourished children and ensure they don't slip back into nutritional crisis.

Three signs of hope in Turkana
Feature Story | Aug 15, 2011
In the midst of crisis in northern Kenya, some herding communities find ways to break the cycle of drought.

In northern Ethiopia, weather insurance offers a buffer against drought
Feature Story | Aug 10, 2011
A growing number of families have signed up for weather insurance to protect their crop investments from insufficient rainfall.

Food price spikes
Feature Story | Aug 02, 2011
After decades of progress, the number of people without enough to eat has reversed course and is increasing. It could soon top one billion. That's more than one in seven people going to bed hungry. Today. In the 21st century.

Saving for Change now exceeds 500,000 members
Feature Story | Jul 27, 2011
Mali continues to lead rapid growth of innovative, savings-based microfinance program.

The worst sight in the world
Feature Story | Jul 26, 2011
Traveling through drought-stricken Somalia and Kenya, Oxfam's Jim Clarken writes of suffering and loss - and the aid that is saving lives.

"It's time we learned this lesson"
Feature Story | Jul 26, 2011
One year after the worst flooding in its history, Pakistan is still not prepared for this year’s monsoon floods and other natural disasters.

In Hindeysa, Ethiopia, a well becomes a lifeline
Feature Story | Jul 18, 2011
In May 2011, Oxfam teamed up with local people to build a new water source for communities already feeling the effects of drought.