The Australian Government’s $20 million funding increase for the Typhoon response – bringing its overall contribution to $30 million – is a welcome and much needed injection into the massive relief effort under way in the Philippines, Oxfam Australia said today. Oxfam Australia Chief Executive Helen Szoke, speaking from Cebu, said the $30 million from […]
Oxfam Australia’s Chief Executive Helen Szoke flies to the Philippines this morning to assist in the agency’s massive relief effort that aims to reach half a million people.
Oxfam is gearing up its aid efforts and aims to raise $17 million after one of the worst natural disasters to hit the Philippines in years.
Oxfam aid team witnesses scene of utter destruction in northern-most tip of Cebu, Philippines. Oxfam staff in Vietnam prepare for Typhoon Haiyan to hit land today.
International Aid Agency Oxfam is preparing for Typhoon Haiyan to hit land in Vietnam in the coming hours while also deploying teams to areas hardest hit by the typhoon in the Philippines and appealing for funds to help victims of the super storm.
International aid agency Oxfam will today send rapid emergency response teams to areas worst affected by Typhoon Haiyan after it tore through the Philippines.
International aid agency Oxfam is preparing an emergency response to the biggest Typhoon to hit the Philippines in decades. As Typhoon Haiyan made landfall, Oxfam emergency response teams were on standby to respond to potential devastation in the Visayas region, with teams already on the ground working with people affected by a massive earthquake last […]
International aid agency Oxfam will provide water, sanitation and shelter to 60,000 people affected by Cyclone Phailin. The storm, one of the country’s biggest natural disasters in years, left India on Sunday, leaving almost nine million people affected.
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