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Oxfam has launched an appeal to support its rapid relief effort to reach almost 400,000 people with clean water, sanitation kits and hygiene supplies in flood-affected north-western Pakistan.

International aid agency Oxfam is providing water and sanitation facilities to 30,000 households in the aftermath of the Pakistan floods.

A second Oxfam relief team has arrived in Qinghai and has delivered supplies to 2,000 earthquake survivors.

International aid agency Oxfam has begun distributing relief items to survivors of China’s deadly earthquake, including blankets for 2,000 people who are living in a temporary camp set up in a racecourse in the town of Jiegu in Yushu County, Qinghai.

International agency Oxfam has sent out two teams of aid experts to earthquake hit Quinhai and Sichuan provinces. The teams have been sent from the agency’s offices in Lanzhou and Chengdu in Sichuan and the neighbouring province of Gansu

International agency Oxfam is preparing to send blankets and water proof sheeting as part of a $280,000 aid package to the earthquake hit area of Yushu County of south-eastern Qinghai Province in northwest China.

Port-au-Prince: Three months after the catastrophic earthquake that struck Port-au-Prince, an in-depth survey of over 1,700 Haitians shows people’s top priorities for reconstruction are jobs and schools.

Oxfam’s assessment of the damage of Saturday’s earthquake to the south of Chile is now well underway. The aid agency’s team of logisticians and water engineers have split in two and headed for two locations – Constitución and Concepcion.

As details of the impact of the earthquake in Chile are emerging Oxfam’s emergency response team is en route to affected areas and expected to arrive in country today.

One month after a devastating earthquake struck Haiti, international aid agency Oxfam has warned a major effort is still needed to prevent public health from deteriorating. Time is pressing as there are only six weeks before the start of the raining season.