While in South Western Bangladesh last week, I watched as a woman named Shahana sat cross-legged on the ground with thirty members of her community noting down the many ways changing weather patterns were impacting their lives.
United Nations Climate Change Conference to begin in Cancun, Mexico today
Oxfam Unwrapped is on the search to find Oxfam Australia’s next top animal to help in the fight against poverty and injustice. You can vote for your favourite contestant by visiting the Oxfam Unwrapped website.
Queenslanders will get the chance to participate in one of the world’s toughest charity challenges on home ground with the announcement today that Brisbane will be the location for a new Oxfam Trailwalker event in 2011.
An Oxfam Australia initiative to develop the next generation of humanitarian leaders will see 300 young people from 98 countries converge on New Delhi, India, today to share their experiences of how to overcome poverty and social injustice at the OIYP Kaleidoscope 2010 event.
At a special ceremony in Melbourne today, President Jose Ramos-Horta presented the Insignia Da Ordem De Timor-Leste to David Scott AO in recognition of his commitment and contribution to the people of Timor-Leste.
International military forces must take urgent steps to protect civilians caught up in the escalating conflict as they plan for the handover of responsibility for security to the Afghan government, warned leading aid agencies today.
Over the weekend Oxfam began chlorinating water for 300,000 people in a slum area of Cap Haitien. Recent violence spread across the city and Oxfam had to stop those activities. Other activities that have ceased are distributions of soap, water tablets and oral rehydration salts. Perhaps the most important activity that Oxfam had to stop is our massive public education campaign – through radio messages – to inform people about the basic good hygiene that will keep them safe.
International aid agency Oxfam has doubled its cholera response since the first cases were confirmed in October in Haiti. Oxfam’s water, sanitation and hygiene education programs are now reaching over 700,000 people in the capital Port-au-Prince, Artibonite in central Haiti, and Cap Haitien in northern Haiti.
Oxfam Australia welcomed Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd’s announcement today of an independent review of Australia’s aid and development program, and his commitment to include NGOs in the process.