The spread of cholera to 2,000 people in Papua New Guinea has highlighted the urgent need for additional support to tackle the root causes of the outbreak, international aid agency Oxfam said today.
Less than a third of people living in one of the largest camps in Port au Prince say that they are willing to move to camps sited outside the city according to a snap-shot survey carried out by international agency Oxfam. If the new improved camps are established close to where they used to live then the proportion willing to move leaps to nearly three quarters.
The international community should use today’s conference in Montreal, Canada, to cancel Haiti’s outstanding US $890 million international debt in the wake of the devastating earthquake, international agency Oxfam said today.
Responding to the Haiti earthquake has been one of the toughest challenges Oxfam has ever faced in its history of delivering aid, the international agency said today.
Oxfam staff in Haiti are providing shovels and picks for local civil workers to clear rubble to search for trapped victims in the capital, Port-au-Prince, following Tuesday’s massive earthquake.
An Oxfam staff member was killed when part of Oxfam’s office crumbled in the devastating quake that hit Haiti on Tuesday.
International aid agency Oxfam has dispatched additional emergency specialists to Haiti to bolster the agency’s response to the earthquake that struck the country on Tuesday.
Oxfam is appealing for public support as the international aid agency responds to yesterday’s devastating earthquake in Haiti.
International aid agency Oxfam is responding to today’s earthquake in Haiti.
Oxfam closes final elements of its tsunami aid programme 2.5 million people helped, 10,800 wells, 2,900 houses, 102 schools, 31 bridges built and 100 km of roads cleared and constructed By the fifth anniversary of the 2004 Asian tsunami, 26 December 2009, international aid and development agency Oxfam will close its last few remaining tsunami […]