Feature stories

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.