The popularity of corporate fitness challenges has grown so rapidly that charity Oxfam has for the first time had to introduce a lottery system to select participants for the upcoming Oxfam Trailwalker Sydney.
Just over a week ago worldwide coalition of organisations, including Oxfam, launched a campaign to help Haiti’s long-term recovery from the terrible earthquake that has devastated the country. With your support we wanted persuade the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the international community to cancel Haiti’s debt, which before the earthquake stood at a staggering $890 million dollars.
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.
The Prime Minister’s honouring of his commitment to report back to Parliament on closing the gap in Indigenous health equality is an important contribution to monitoring progress, but key elements are still missing, Chair of the Close the Gap Steering Committee Tom Calma said today.
Oxfam goat loans provide the security an orphan needs so they can continue their education, and have the money to buy food and medication to survive. Read more
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.
Senator Barnaby Joyce has suggested Australia make cuts to its overseas aid program. In response, Oxfam Australia’s Andrew Hewett, explains why Australia’s aid program works. Read more.
Nationals Senator Barnaby Joyce this week suggested Australia could make cuts to its overseas aid program to pay for services in Australia.
Australia begins 2010 comfortable in the knowledge that it seems to have escaped the worst of the global economic crisis. But what about our region – the Pacific? A new report by Oxfam Australia reveals a disturbing lack of knowledge about the effects the crisis is having on our nearest neighbours.