Final call for Perth Trailwalker challenge
One of Australia’s toughest charity events, Oxfam Trailwalker, is back to take on Perth this year and there’s not long left to sign up with registrations closing this month.
One of Australia’s toughest charity events, Oxfam Trailwalker, is back to take on Perth this year and there’s not long left to sign up with registrations closing this month.
Three years after achieving independence, the humanitarian crisis in South Sudan is deepening and the risk of famine will continue to edge closer unless urgent action is taken immediately, international aid agency Oxfam warned today.
Oxfam has condemned ANZ’s cutting of ties to the Cambodian sugar company implicated in the use of child labour and causing food shortages after forcing hundreds of families off their land. ANZ – without warning to the affected communities or the NGOs that support them – has severed its ties with Phnom Penh Sugar after […]
The Commonwealth Bank is again busily defending its damaged reputation only months after it was revealed it had been backing companies involved in grabbing land from poor communities in Brazil, Oxfam Australia said today. The business practices and transparency of Commonwealth Bank are under question following the fallout from the bank’s slow response to a financial […]
Oxfam has been forced to cut essential assistance to over 6,500 vulnerable Syrian refugee families living in Jordan and warns that millions more face an uncertain future with aid agencies unable to adequately respond due to government donor fatigue. Speaking ahead of the UN’s launch of its reviewed aid appeal for the Syria crisis, Oxfam’s […]
The last week of June is the most popular time for Australians to make charitable donations and those donations have a real impact on people living in poverty, international aid agency Oxfam said today.
Oxfam has sent a team of regional experts to Iraq to set up an aid programme to help thousands of people forced to flee their homes due to the violence rocking the country.
The 4th Oxfam Trailwalker Brisbane came to a close this morning with the final courageous team crossing the finish line at Mount Coot-tha around 5.00am.
The first team has crossed the line in the Oxfam Trailwalker Brisbane 100km charity endurance challenge in an impressive finishing time of just 12 hours and 35 minutes.
As almost 500 walkers begin the countdown to tomorrow’s first-ever 55km Oxfam Trailwalker challenge in Brisbane, a new fundraising record has also been set for the city’s event.