Feature stories

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.

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.