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Women living with uncertainty and high food prices
The constant rise in the price of staples affects women in El Salvador on a daily basis. With gardens, some women have found a way to ease the burden.
Conflict in Mali disrupts fragile food markets and threatens to escalate food crisis in West Africa
Sisters on the Planet 4:30-minute version
Fight hunger. Invest in women. Watch Oxfam's video featuring the Sisters on the Planet ambassadors, then sign up as a Sister (or a Brother) at ...
Sisters on the Planet 30-second PSA
Fight hunger. Invest in women. Watch Oxfam's video featuring the Sisters on the Planet ambassadors, then sign up as a Sister (or a Brother) at ...
In Kolda, Senegal, farmers are struggling to feed their families
The last harvest of peanuts, a major cash crop in this region, plummeted by 60 percent leaving families with little money to buy the food they need.
Feeding Boston, changing the world
Food security concerns at World Food Day events in Ghana
Land grabs for biofuels, and gender inequity take center stage.
A health awakening
In the crowded camps of Darfur, community public health promoters are teaching unforgettable lessons about how to protect the health—and lives—of loved ones.
OXFAMExchange, Fall 2011
Africa's last famine?
Struggle in Sahel: 'If there's no pasture, nothing works'
'We've stayed on our ancestors' land and we've put up with everything, but if rain doesn't come, life would turn into a nightmare," says Koubra Hamid.
As food crisis looms, the lean season hits early in northern Senegal
An Oxfam team assesses the conditions around a group of small villages where many of the food reserves are now exhausted.
Looking them in the eye
In Ghana, a young woman learns to lead in a village flooded by water draining from an underground mine shaft.
Knowledge is power
Across Ghana, new leaders are emerging to voice concerns about the environment and basic justice.
Leadership from the bottom up
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.
In a city of water
Heavy rains in Senegal have turned the low-lying city of Pikine into a lake. Oxfam and a local partner are working to improve the conditions of life for those ...
Working with women
Empowered women can change the world. At Oxfam America, that truth informs all our work, from our response to humanitarian emergencies to our campaigns for ...
Saving for Change now exceeds 500,000 members
Mali continues to lead rapid growth of innovative, savings-based microfinance program.
Hardest hit: Ethiopia
A women-led early warning system helps herding families in the southern part of the country find ways to cope with drought.
OXFAMExchange Spring 2009
The power of resilience
In promoting public health, compassion is Margaret Asewe's best medicine
In Chad, Margaret Asewe worked with some of the first refugees from Darfur. In the summer of 2007, she returned to confront another rainy season and thousands ...
With wood scarce in Darfur, a new stove promises good things for women and the environment
Fuel-efficient stoves that burn less wood will benefit both women in Darfur and the environment there.
What’s in a stove?
In Darfur, fuel-efficient stoves benefit the environment and much more.
Saving Lives 24/7: Flood response in Senegal
Emergency fund allows fast response to severe flooding in suburbs of Dakar.
People-centered resilience
Working with vulnerable farmers towards climate change adaptation and food security
Hardest hit: Survival strategies from the frontlines of climate change
Learn how four communities around the world are fighting back against climate change, and how you can help.
Sisters on the Planet 1-minute PSA
Fight hunger. Invest in women. Watch Oxfam's video featuring the Sisters on the Planet ambassadors, then sign up as a Sister (or a Brother) at ...
The rains have come, but food crisis continues to afflict West Africa, hitting Chad hard
With harvests still weeks away, Oxfam is increasingly concerned about the situation in western Chad.
Honoring women, fighting hunger
This spring, thousands of supporters joined Oxfam in celebrating 100 years of International Women's Day. Check out photos from your events around the country.
Saving for Change
Oxfam America has pioneered an alternative microfinance model called Saving for Change, which self-replicates on a large scale and at a low cost, serving those ...
Oxfam and partners hail Ghana for enacting law on petroleum revenue
As Ghana joins the league of oil producing nations, Oxfam America and its local partners congratulate the country for putting in place the legal framework for ...
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