Feature stories

Lives Interrupted
Feature Story | Nov 17, 2009
Photos from Afghanistan, which paint a grim picture of a country plagued by 30 years of fighting.

El Salvador: "We spent the whole day evacuating people."
Feature Story | Nov 17, 2009
"People had to go up on the roofs, or they hung from the walls of houses that have broken glass. There were so many injured people." This is the testimony of Emerita Rivas in Verapaz, El Salvador.

Verapaz: four days after the landslide
Feature Story | Nov 13, 2009
With her camera, Oxfam America's Tjarda Muller records the devastation in one community in El Salvador following torrential rains.

I feel my heart beating
Feature Story | Nov 13, 2009
Storm in El Salvador rivals Hurricane Mitch in intensity

Food crisis in Guatemala
Feature Story | Nov 06, 2009
Oxfam and local partners help farmers cope with crop failures, food shortages.

With the help of a few sheep, women improve lives of their families
Feature Story | Nov 06, 2009
In North Shewa, Ethiopia, sheep are an important household asset.

A traditional form of help allows families to rebuild herds in Ethiopia
Feature Story | Nov 06, 2009
Families share the offspring from their small herds with neighbors in need.

Millions face hunger as drought sweeps East Africa
Feature Story | Nov 03, 2009
Oxfam America is responding to the crisis with emergency assistance that includes food and cash-for-work programs that aim to help about 350,000 people.

As politicians debate action on climate change, Cambodians rally in the capital city
Feature Story | Oct 27, 2009
At the Wat Phnom event, they call on governments to meet the needs of poor countries already struggling to deal with the impacts of climate change.