Oxfam Australia today called on governments and the Australian community to support Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner Mick Gooda’s call for a new era for a reconciled Australia.
Three months after floods devastated Pakistan, seven million people are still without adequate shelter, and funds for the UN flood appeal are drying up – threatening the aid and reconstruction effort, the international aid agency Oxfam warned today.
“Medical care and hospitals are well set up and we’re really getting a foothold against this disease. There is still a huge amount of work to be done to educate people about good personal hygiene but we can see progress on the ground. Increasing people’s access to clean water and ongoing preventive messages all across the country is what will stop the spread of this disease.
“We are obviously concerned about the spread of cholera to Port-au-Prince. However, earthquake victims living in and around the capital have better access to clean water, latrines and better knowledge of good hygiene practices than in rural areas. We have been doing ongoing educational sessions in dozens of camps ever since the earthquake struck.
In response to the cholera outbreak in central Haiti, International Agency Oxfam has mobilised a team of five emergency specialists to set up water, sanitation and hygiene programs for an estimated 100,000 people in a heavily affected zone.
Oxfam Ambassador, celebrity chef and restaurateur Kylie Kwong will design her own range of fair trade kitchenware, to be sold through Oxfam’s shops around Australia.
Celebrity chef and restaurateur Kylie Kwong will design her own range of fair trade kitchenware, to be sold through Oxfam’s shops around Australia. The new kitchenware range will be developed by Kylie in close collaboration with Oxfam, and crafted by one of Oxfam’s key producer partners in Vietnam, in time for Christmas next year. “When […]
Oxfam today called on the Government of Pakistan and the international community to invest in measures that reduce and manage the risk of disasters at district and community levels.
The poorest people who need the most help to adapt to a changing climate are largely being bypassed by the small amount of climate funds currently being disbursed, according to a new Oxfam report published today.
The challenge of climate change is a global one. But it is poor people in developing countries who are suffering its impacts first and worst. And they simply cannot afford to wait any longer to receive the assistance that they so desperately need.